Professor Stephen (Steve) Walkden-Brown
Professor in Animal Health and Veterinary Science - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Biography
Steve's teaching and research centre on animal health and disease control in animal production systems in Australia and overseas. He worked as a government field veterinarian in Fiji prior to his academic career and has or has had major international projects in India, Laos and Vietnam. He has special interests in small ruminant production systems and the integrated control of gastrointestinal parasite infections in such systems. He also has a longstanding research interest in the diagnosis and control of major viral diseases in chickens and the potential of poultry dust as population level sample material for molecular diagnosis and monitoring of a wide range of infectious disease organisms in chickens. Steve has over 400 scientific publications and reports including authorship on some 140 refereed original scientific journal papers. He has supervised or co-supervised 33 PhD, 11 research masters and 23 honours students to completion and currently leads an active group of researchers and HDR students.
