Dr Laura Oliveira, PhD in microbiology, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Fellowship. Laura has been involved in research projects focused on the characterisation of gram-positive cocci, especially Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus, recovered from human and animal sources, regarding capsular typing, molecular typing, antimicrobial resistance and virulence potential. She has experience in the field of microbiology, with emphasis on bacteriology and molecular epidemiology, and expertise in several molecular biology methods, including genome sequencing, multi-locus sequence typing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectroscopy (MALDI-TOF MS) for identification and strain-typing of microbial pathogens. The main goal of her research is to improve the diagnosis and the control and preventive measures of infectious diseases in human and veterinary medical settings.

Laura has been awarded 10 national and international awards, being the most important the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Fellowship for women postdoctoral researchers from low- and middle-income countries. Laura has served as a volunteer for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) since 2017. She is the former president of the ASM International Student Chapter at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2017–2019), ASM Young Ambassador of Science to Brazil (2020–2022) and chair of the ASM Young Leaders Circle (2020–2021). She has been involved in science communication and outreach initiatives in Brazil, including the science communication project DivulgaMicro and the Brazilian editions of Pint of Science and Soapbox Science festivals, and the Smithsonian’s exhibit Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World DiY (Do-It-Yourself).

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/laura-maria-andrade-de-oliveira-78870434/
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0134471917223817
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7162-2013

Mr Carlos Alberto Oliveira De Biagi Junior graduated in medical physics from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho. Carlos has a masters in biotechnology from the same university and is currently a PhD student in genetics with an emphasis on bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo. He is currently a bioinformatician at the Institute for Cancer Research of Guarapuava.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0700-3135

Dr Tatiana Ometto holds a PhD in science in the area of microbiology with an emphasis on virology from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She graduated in biological sciences in medical modality and began her scientific career at the USP performing scientific initiation in pharmaceutical sciences in mycology and scientific initiation in biomedical sciences in microbiology, both at USP. She did a postdoc in microbiology at USP, working mainly in the area of research on emerging viruses such as West Nile virus, Hantavirus, Influenza A, New Castle Disease and flavivirus. During her postdoc, she worked as a guest researcher at the Viral Special Pathogens Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US with research on emerging and re-emerging viruses of worldwide interest BSL3/4 biosafety levels, such as Nipah, Hendra, Sousuga, Marburg and Ebola viruses.
Tatiana has over 15 years of experience in the areas of biosafety, training, microbiology, ecology and epidemiology, with an emphasis on virology, working mainly on the following topics: biosecurity, emerging and re-emerging viruses, fieldwork, collection of biological material from humans and wild animals, molecular and serological diagnosis of viruses and molecular epidemiology of viruses. From 2009 to 2017 she was the researcher responsible for the maximum biosafety laboratory in Brazil, the BSL3+ of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences II at USP and currently works as a collaborating researcher on projects related to the study and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 at the same institute. Tatiana is co-founder of the EPISaúde Digital Platform, which helps health professionals through technical-scientific aspects to the correct use and handling of personal protective equipment, co-founder of the Bio Mídia Digital Platform, specializing in online biosafety training for schools, companies and health centers and founder of EPI Bio, a company specialized in training and consultancy in Biosafety.

Website: https://www.epibio.com.br
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tatiana-Ometto
https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/pesquisador/61694/tatiana-ometto-de-araujo/
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7219-329

Dr Sonya Osborne is an experienced researcher with a clinical background in nursing and almost 30 years of professional experience across health service settings and academia. Her research interests include evidence-based practice and implementation science with a focus on identifying contextual barriers to evidence uptake, and testing implementation strategies aimed at sustainable practice and health service improvements. She also has a particular clinical focus on comparative effectiveness research in acute, perioperative and surgical nursing and patient care. Her research methodological expertise includes systematic review methodology, survey methodology, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies and implementation science research designs.

Sonya is currently a professor of nursing and appointed as the associate head of school (research) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, with responsibility for staff and student research capacity building and operationalising the school’s strategic research plan. In addition, Sonya coordinates postgraduate research courses in the coursework master’s in nursing. Over the past 10 years, Sonya has supervised 15 research higher degree students (seven current students), which included eight completions. Career highlights include over $4 million in research, project and consultancy funding and a consistent track record in research dissemination, with over 60 single-authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in international, highly ranked (Q1, Q2) nursing and multidisciplinary journals; a Scopus H-index of 20; and over 1500 total citations.

Research interests: implementation science/research; surgical and perioperative patient safety; infection control; determinants of implementation behaviours.

Collaboration ideas:
- Shared postgraduate, cross-disciplinary courses on global health that could be an elective or required course, may or may not involve a short term cross country placement
- Higher degree by research student exchange program, such as cotutelle joint PhD programs
- Access to funding for multisite research for both countries from both countries
- Data registries for particular health conditions to conduct comparative research/secondary analysis of data
- Virtual research conference on topical issues with international keynotes and speakers
- Researcher exchange: short-term cross-country sabbaticals to work with/learn from relevant researcher experts in each country, with some expectation that visiting scholars would deliver a number of public seminars on their area of expertise.

Website: https://staffprofile.usq.edu.au/profile/sonya-osborne
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2826-0627
Researcher ID: J-1022-2012
Scopus Author ID: 14424389800

Dr Michael O’Shea is an innovation broker who works across the entire R&D capability of the University of Queensland, Australia, and builds programs and ventures to address large global challenges. Prior to this role, Michael was a long-term sugar industry researcher with interests in biofuels, diversification, alternative products, diagnostic methods and applications of near-infrared spectroscopy.

Research interests: One Health; antimicrobial resistance; agriculture; biorefining and bioresource utilisation

Collaboration ideas: I have particular interests in the application of One Health principles in dealing with the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. I would like to collaborate to understand the variety of responses being undertaken in other places to combat this problem. Research groups will likely have much to share, as well as keeping each other informed across this journey.

Dr Andrew Page obtained a PhD from the University of Sydney and is professor of epidemiology in the Translational Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University, Australia. Andrew has extensive research experience in epidemiology, psychology and public health, with particular interests in the study of suicide and mental health, the social determinants of health, injury prevention, breast cancer screening and maternal and child health. Andrew also has interests in the application of systems science and simulation approaches to epidemiological evidence in order to inform policy and health service decision support tools.

Research interests: epidemiology; program evaluation; systems science; maternal and child health; chronic disease

Collaboration ideas:
- Impacts of COVID-19 on outcomes relating to mental health and suicidal behaviour
- Comparative trends and determinants of chronic disease outcomes in Brazil and Australia
- Application of epidemiological methods.

Dr Alexandre Paschoal is an associate professor from the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná in Brazil. He received his PhD in bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo in 2012 and postdoctoral at the University of Leipzig, Germany during 2016–2017. He is one of the heads of the Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics Lab (bioinfo.cp.utfpr.edu.br/). Alexandre is the bioinformatics master’s degree coordinator, and he was the head of the Brazil-China Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence at Araucária Foundation. His research includes bioinformatics, data integration and data science. The idea is to develop a method to understand biological data from heterogeneous public data in any biological problem (Answer this question: What does the data tell us?).

Website: Bioinfo.cp.utfpr.edu.br/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandre-Paschoal https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-paschoal-3628267a/
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8887-0582
Lattes ID: 5834088144837137

Dr Keshav Raj Paudel is an early career research fellow working in the field of lung cancer to investigate the early diagnostic markers of lung cancer with IASLC fellowship funding for two years from 2019 to 2021. He is also studying the impact of bushfire smoke/particulate matter on respiratory health using mice model and in vitro cell line experiments as well as optimizing treatments. This project is funded by SPHERE Triple I laboratory grant-2020 and TSANZ Maurice Blackburn grant-in-aid 2021.

Research interests: advance drug delivery systems and how we can optimize these formulations in the management of chronic respiratory diseases.

Website: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/keshavraj.paudel
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3591-2080

Dr Anna Cristina Pertierra’s research uses ethnography to examine everyday social practice, with a particular interest in media, consumption and material culture, and urban modernities. Regionally, her work focuses on Latin America and Southeast Asia. Anna Cristina is the author of three books, co-editor of three edited volumes and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journal articles across anthropology, media and cultural studies.

Her current project, New Consumer Cultures in the Global South, is funded by the Australian Research Council. It explores how the consumption practices of urban poor communities have been transformed by economic development. The project compares four cities across China, the Philippines, Mexico and Brazil. Through this project, Anna Cristina and her team have been developing digital research methodologies for work with low-income communities in the COVID-19 pandemic. At Western Sydney University, Anna Cristina is currently the research theme champion for Urban Living Futures. This research leadership role fosters research engagement across community, industry and academic networks to focus on improving the lives and futures of people living in Western Sydney and in cities across the world.

Research interests: culture; ethnography; urban communities; media and digital consumption

Collaboration ideas: Both Australia and Brazil have leading networks of researchers across humanities, social sciences and communications who are innovating on topics such as:
- Digital research methods adapted for use with participants in vulnerable communities
- Comparative qualitative research on new cultural practices emerging in the pandemic to manage health and wellbeing
- The use of media and digital technologies in low-income communities for education, health and economic security.

Website: www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/people/school_based_researchers/anna_pertierra
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4410-5528

Dr Juliana Pessalacia is a nurse with a post-doctorate in nursing in collective health from the School of Nursing at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She undertook her PhD in nursing at the University of São Paulo, School of Nursing at Ribeirão Preto. Associate Professor III at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Campus Três Lagoas (CPTL), Juliana is working in undergraduate courses in nursing and medicine. She works in the following lines of research: ethics and bioethics, palliative care in primary health care, access to health services and humanization in health. Juliana is a permanent professor in the postgraduate master in nursing course at CPTL/UFMS and coordinator of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UFMS.

Research interests: responses from the health system and public policies

Collaboration ideas: A partnership with Australian researchers is sought through the IMPACT OF ACTIONS PROMOTION OF ACCEPTANCE, ADHESION AND COMPLIANCE WITH COVID-19 PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES IN MATO GROSSO DO SUL, approved from the Notice CALL FUNDECT No. 08 /2020 – PPSUS. It is believed that the exchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers about COVID-19 prevention and control measures, as well as public policies adopted in Australia, can support strategies for the implementation of effective policies and actions in the Mato Grosso context southern. Partnerships with researchers from the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, are expected to carry out studies that seek effective responses from the Brazilian health system and public policies aimed at the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lattes ID: 4043784563120025