Dr Avram Levy is lead scientist for the Pathogen Genomics and Surveillance Unit at PathWest, the Public Health Microbiology Laboratory in Western Australia. The unit provides public and environmental health microbiology services, including National Influenza Centre activities, arbovirus and wastewater surveillance programs. Dr Levy is an executive member of the Communicable Diseases Genomics Network and has driven the implementation and capacity development of pathogen genomics for public health in WA, including outbreak investigation and disease surveillance for respiratory, foodborne, hospital and environmentally transmitted pathogens. Avram holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia and has provided supervision and traineeships to postgraduate students since 2004.