Anthony Draper

Anthony Draper is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. He works as an epidemiologist in the OzFoodNet Network at the Northern Territory's Centre for Disease Control and serves as an Honorary Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Dili, Timor-Leste.

His career spans multiple regions including the Northern Territory, Brisbane, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea. He specializes in field epidemiology, outbreak response, and collaborative work within multi-cultural teams, having delivered field epidemiology training programs (FETP) across Australia, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu.

Anthony holds the following academic qualifications:

• PhD Candidate (Australian National University)
• Master of Public Health (Menzies School of Health Research)
• Graduate Diploma in Public Health (Menzies School of Health Research)
• Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Science) (Queensland University of Technology)

His research focuses on strengthening communicable disease surveillance systems, building public health capacity in low-resource settings, and implementing field epidemiology training programs. He actively participates in disaster responses and disease outbreak deployments with AUSMAT.