John S. Mackenzie, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, and conjoint Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases , Australia

Tel: +61-8-9266 1640
Fax: +61-8-9266 1650
Email: j.mackenzie@curtin.edu.au

Professor in the Division of International Health and holder of the Premier's Fellowship at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, from May 2004. Previously Professor of Microbiology and Adjunct Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases in the University of Queensland, 1995-2004, and a senior academic staff

member in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Western Australia (1973-1994). Elected honours include Secretary-General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, Past President of the Australian Society for Microbiology and of the Asian-Pacific Society for Medical Virology, and Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Mackenzie was a Co-Recipient of The Medical Journal of Australia/Wyeth Research Award for the best original research paper published in The Medical Journal of Australia during 1996, a co-recipient of the James H Nakano Citation of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an outstanding scientific paper published in 1999, awarded the Excellence in Virology Award by the Asian-Pacific Society for Medical Virology (2000), and awarded Officer in the Order of Australia (2002) for services to public health research and to education . A member of various international committees including the Scientific Advisory Committee for Global Health Security and the Steering Committee for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organization, Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Chinese University of Hong Kong, . Professor Mackenzie was recently seconded to the World Health Organization in Geneva to work on SARS programs.

Selected Publications

Broom, A., Azuolas, J., Dwyer, D., Hueston, L., Mackenzie, J.S., Melville, L., Smith, D.W. and Whelan, P.I. 2002. Australian encephalitis: Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 26: 83.

Broom, A.K., Whelan, P.I., Azuolas, J., Dwyer, D., Hueston, L., Mackenzie, J.S., Melville, L., Ritchie, S.A. and Smith, D.W. 2002. Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Programme in Australia , 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 26:428-429.

Broom, A.K., Lindsay, M.D.A., Plant, A.J., Wright, A.E., Condon, R.J. and Mackenzie, J.S. 2002. Epizootic activity of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in an aboriginal community in the Southeast Kimberley region of Western Australia : results of cross-sectional and longitudinal serologic studies. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67: 319-323.

Mackenzie, J.S. et al. (including RUSSELL, R.C.) 1993. Diagnosis and reporting of arbovirus infections in Australia . Communicable Diseases Intelligence 17(10) : 202-206.

Mackenzie, J.S., Broom, A.K., Calisher, C.H., CLOONAN, M.J., Cunningham, A.L., Gibson, C.A., Hueston, L., Lindsay, M.D., Marshall, I.D., Phillips, D.A., RUSSELL, R.C., Sheridan, J., Smith, D.W., Smythe, L., Vitarana, T. and Worswick, D. 1992. Diagnosis and reporting of arbovirus infections in Australia . Arbovirus Research in Australia 6 : 89-93 .

Hall, R.A., Broom, A.K., Smith, D.W. and Mackenzie, J.S. The Ecology and Epidemiology of Kunjin Virus . 2002. In Mackenzie, J.S., Barrett, A.D.T. and Deubel, V. (eds.), Japanese Encephalitis and West Nile Viruses, 267: 253-269 . Springer-Verlag , Berlin .

Mackenzie, J.S., Hall, R.A., Lindsay, M.D., Bielefeldt-Ohmann, H. and Poidinger, M. 2000. Molecular epidemiology and phylogeny of Australian arboviruses. In Thompson, R.C.A. (ed.), Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases , pp 297-315. London , Arnold .

Mackenzie, J.S., Lindsay, M.D. and Daniels, P. 2000. The effect of climate on the incidence of vector-borne diseases in Australia : the potential value of season forecasting. In G. Hammer, N. Nicholls, C. Mitchell (eds.), Applications of Seasonal Climate Forecasting in Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems , pp. 429-452. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands .