Project Team

Taking the Query out of Q fever (i.e. the Q Fever Group) is a multidisciplinary initiative that brings together academic research groups, government agencies and livestock industry partners from Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as part of its Rural R&D for Profit programme, with support from AgriFutures Australia as well as multiple university and industry partners, this multidisciplinary project’s overarching aim is to improve understanding of Coxiella burnetii reservoirs, amplification and transmission pathways within and outside Australian livestock holdings.

The University of Melbourne 

• Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences (Vet Epi @ Melbourne)
• Professor Mark Stevenson (Project Leader)
• Dr Bonny Cumming (Project Manager)
• Dr Simon Firestone
• Dr Anke Wiethoelter

 

The University Queensland

• School of Veterinary Science (UQ Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory)
• Associate Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhães
• Dr Tatiana Proboste Ibertti
• Dr Nicholas Clark

The University of Adelaide

• School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
• Dr Charles Caraguel
• Dr Anne-Lise Chaber

Charles Sturt University

• School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences
• Associate Professor Jane Heller

Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory

• Associate Professor John Stenos
• Dr Gemma Vincent
• Professor Stephen Graves

Meredith Dairy

• Dr Sandy & Julie Cameron

Goat Veterinary Consultancies

• Dr Sandra Baxendell

Other Partners of the Q Fever Group

The project also welcomes generous support from NSW Department of Primary Industries, the Victorian Department of Jobs, Precincts, and Resources, Biosecurity Queensland and Nuchev Pty Ltd.