Harriet Whiley is a Professor in Environmental Health and Deputy Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Biofilm Research and Innovation. As an environmental microbiologist and environmental health officer her research is aimed at informing design, management and regulatory guidelines to protect human health from pathogens present in the environment. Her research areas include infection control, biofilms, water quality, food safety and risk assessment.

Harriet is available for Honours, Masters and PhD supervision.

The aim of my research is to inform Environmental Health Officers of best practice to protect human health from pathogens present in the environment. Through industry collaboration, my research utilises a multidisciplinary approach to tackle a range of public health issues present in a number of environments.

My research interests include:

Environmental health; public health; environmental microbiology; molecular biology; water quality; water reuse; water distribution systems; biofilms; food microbiology; food safety; food policy; opportunistic pathogens; Legionella pneumophila; Legionella longbeachae; Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC); Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM); Campylobacter spp.; Salmonella spp.

• Microbiology/ environmental health (2)

• Environmental health (2)
• Environmental health/parasitology (1)
• Biofilms (1)