Speakers

Mark Schipp

Australian Chief Veterinary Officer
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Keynote Address: Australia’s Response to the 2022 Japanese Encephalitis Virus Outbreak and Lessons Learned

Dr. Mark Schipp was appointed Australian Chief Veterinary Officer in 2011. In 2012 he was elected to the OIE Council and in 2018 was elected President of the OIE General Assembly for a three year term. Together with the Chief Medical Officer, Schipp chairs the Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance. He is also a member of the Animal Health Committee.

Previously Schipp has held positions responsible for animal derived food product inspection, market access and export certification. Schipp served two terms overseas as Agriculture Counsellor in Seoul, South Korea and in Beijing, China.

Schipp is a biology and veterinary graduate of Murdoch University. After graduation he worked with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture.

John M. Drake

Regents’ Professor
Distinguished Research Professor
Director, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases (CEID)
Director, Global Infectious Disease Intelligence Consortium (GIDIC)
University of Georgia

Welcome Address

Path to a spread model for JEV in North America

Panel discussion: What happens if JEV comes to North America?

Dr. John M. Drake is a Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. His research seeks to understand the dynamics of biological populations and epidemics, focusing on how to bring experimental and observational data together with mathematical theory.

Biological phenomena of interest include extinction, fluctuations in variable environments, the spatial distribution of populations (niche theory), Allee effects, demographic stochasticity, spatial spread, and near-critical dynamics. Practical applications of this work include decision support for managing invasive species, mapping the spread of infectious diseases, and forecasting disease emergence. Recent projects concern the dynamics of Ebola virus in West Africa, spread of White-nose Syndrome in bats, and the development of a new theory for early warning systems of emerging infectious diseases.

Drake has an interest in history and philosophy of modern (twentieth century) biology. Drake received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2004 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California from 2004-2006. He has been at the University of Georgia since 2006. He was Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University in 2012.