Local Conservation. Global Health.
The rapid expansion of human activities and unregulated agriculture into vulnerable ecosystems not only destroys wildlife habitats and contributes to climate change, it also exposes us all to new diseases such as HIV, Ebola, SARS-CoV-1, Nipah and COVID-19.
With our partners, Conservation Medicine works to protect people, wildlife and livestock through research, zoonotic surveillance and discovery. We are developing biosafety, biosecurity and One Health capacity and improving land-use planning to minimise the effects on high-risk populations and to prevent further zoonotic disease spillover.
Projects
Learn how our projects in Malaysia and South East Asia are helping to identify and prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases.
Publications& Press
Read the papers and reports relating to our studies, and access media coverage of our activities.
Resources
Download manuals, guides and toolkits we have developed with our partners for communities and researchers.
Conservation
Strengthening laboratory capacity, raising public awareness and reporting the ecological effects of land-use change.
/ Specialities
Conservation Medicine has a unique skill set that enables us to train, research, discover and develop.
HUMAN, WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK SAMPLING
ZOONOTIC PATHOGEN SURVEILLANCE AND DISCOVERY
ONE HEALTH TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING
LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT, BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
ZOONOSIS, LAND USE CHANGE AND CONSERVATION RESEARCH
/ Projects
Learn how our projects in Malaysia and South East Asia are helping to identify and prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases.
Infectious Disease Emergence and Economics of Altered Landscapes (IDEEAL)
Quantifying the economic costs of the impact of deforestation on malaria outcomes in Sabah, Malaysia, and determining the optimal amount of land to be converted to agriculture that minimised these costs.
PREDICT
Funded by USAID this project discovered novel zoonotic viruses in wildlife before they could potentially become human epidemics, and identified the factors that drive their emergence, amplification, and spread in populations.
EID-SEARCH
Funded by NIAID, the creation of the Emerging Infectious Diseases / South East Asia Research Collaboration Hub aims to discover new viruses and characterise their risk of spillover to people, as well as identifying evidence of virus outbreaks not being detected by normative diagnostics.
WHO Laboratory Biosafety and Risk Assessment Manuals
Working with the WHO and MORU to strengthen laboratory capacity in South East Asia.
Biosurveillance of Henipaviruses & Filoviruses
Funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Biological Threat Reduction Program, this project aims to strengthen capacity for serological surveillance within national labs and characterise henipavirus and filovirus exposure in bats, livestock and people in Peninsular Malaysia.
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/ Projects
Learn how our projects in Malaysia and South East Asia are helping identify and prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases.
Infectious Disease Emergence and Economics of Altered Landscapes (IDEEAL)
Quantifying the economic costs of the impact of deforestation on malaria outcomes in Sabah, Malaysia, and determining the optimal amount of land to be converted to agriculture that minimised these costs.
PREDICT
Funded by USAID this project discovered novel zoonotic viruses in wildlife before they could potentially become human epidemics, and identified the factors that drive their emergence, amplification, and spread in populations.
EID-SEARCH
Funded by NIAID, the creation of the Emerging Infectious Diseases / South East Asia Research Collaboration Hub aims to discover new viruses and characterise their risk of spillover to people, as well as identifying evidence of virus outbreaks not being detected by normative diagnostics.
WHO Laboratory Biosafety and Risk Assessment Manuals
Working with the WHO and MORU to strengthen laboratory capacity in South East Asia.
Biosurveillance of Henipaviruses & Filoviruses
Funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Biological Threat Reduction Program, this project aims to strengthen capacity for serological surveillance within national labs and characterise henipavirus and filovirus exposure in bats, livestock and people in Peninsular Malaysia.
/ Publications & Press
Download papers and reports from our research to learn about our findings and understand how land-use change is affecting zoonotic spillover.
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