Johanna Rhodes

Dr. Johanna Rhodes is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, holding this position since July 2020. She maintains affiliations with the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Imperial Microbiome Network, operating from the Sir Michael Uren Hub at White City Campus.

Her educational foundation includes a PhD awarded by the University of Warwick on September 28, 2012.

Rhodes champions a One Health framework to interconnect human, animal, and environmental health systems. Her research program features:

• Development of laboratory methodologies, computational pipelines, and surveillance infrastructure for emerging fungal pathogens
• Environmental sampling of air, soil, and waterways to map fungal diversity and novel resistance mechanisms, with emphasis on environmental-to-human transmission pathways
• Investigation of climate change as an evolutionary driver of resistance and genetic variation in pathogens, using Aspergillus fumigatus as a model organism

She directs the Rhodes Lab which integrates microbiological, ecological, and computational approaches across the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and Microbiome Network collaborations.

While leading active research initiatives, the available documentation does not specify current students, grant awards, or advising relationships.