The CSIRO has promoted from within.
The CSIRO has appointed Dr Debbie Eagles as director of its Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness.
Dr Eagles was deputy director of the ACDP and is a veterinary epidemiologist by training.
The ACDP is the country’s leading high-containment facility that helps protect Australia’s multi-billion-dollar livestock and aquaculture industries, but also has a crucial role to play in identifying emerging infectious disease threats.
Dr Eagles is internationally renowned as a World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reference laboratory expert on bluetongue virus, and a WOAH and Australian qualified expert on the UN secretary-general mechanism’s roster for investigations of alleged use of chemical, biological or toxin weapons.
She spent three years as research director for CSIRO’s diagnosis, surveillance and response program, following eight years in the veterinary diagnostic team.
Dr Eagles will commence in the role effective immediately.
