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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.
Research expertise keywords
- Disease surveillance
- public health microbiology
- wastewater based epidemiology
- pathogen genomics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Maternal influenza vaccine reduces the risk of RSV and related respiratory hospitalisations in early infancy: an epidemiological study.
Holland, C., Le, H., Levy, A., Minney-Smith, C. A., Sarna, M. & Moore, H., 2026, In: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A large foodborne outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to bánh mì, Western Australia, 2024
Brown, A., Hong, S., Combs, B., Foxcroft, N., Maticevic, J., Hogan, R., Tan, H., Levy, A., Minney-Smith, C., Knight, D., Rahaman, M. R. & Armstrong, P., 17 Dec 2025, In: Communicable diseases intelligence (2018). 49Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Amoebic encephalitis within Australia
Carija, S. C., Levy, A., Weaire-Buchanan, G., Lee, T., Woodward, R., Gezeley, J., Edwards, T. A., Dyke, J. M., Fabian, V., Norton, K., Chapman, A. & Ingram, P. R., Jan 2025, In: Internal Medicine Journal. 55, 1, p. 143-147 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A streptococcal vaccine to prevent cellulitis in older adults?
Taggart, M., Langworthy, K., Smith, R., Levy, A., Knight, D. R., Hui, S., Boyder, C., Fulurija, A., Morici, M., Raby, E. & Manning, L., 2 Jun 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
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Australian and New Zealand Laboratory Experience and Proposed Future Direction of Wastewater Pathogen Genomic Surveillance
The Wastewater Surveillance Working Group, Communicable Diseases Genomics Network of Australia & Levy, A., Apr 2025, In: Environments - MDPI. 12, 4, 19 p., 114.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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