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Dr Elvina Viennet
Research Fellow
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology Adjunct Fellow, University of Sunshine Coast
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Elvina is an applied epidemiologist and public health data scientist with a background in medical entomology. She works on climate-sensitive infectious diseases and transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs), focusing on how extreme weather events impact disease transmission and blood supply systems. As part of an epidemiology and biostatistics team, she leads data wrangling, statistical analyses, and predictive modelling to identify emerging risks and support public health decision-making. Her PhD research explored host–Culicoides interactions and their role in bluetongue virus transmission in the Palaearctic region.
Awards
- NHMRC Project Ideas 2025 - Combatting mosquito-borne encephalitic viruses: New biocontrol and risk prediction tools, AUD$988,000 (CID)
- SoH UniSC Impact grant 2025 - Mapping the pertussis threat: seroepidemiology & public health insights for Queensland, AUD$50,000 (Collaborator)
- Fonds Pacifique 2021, PI Dr Francesca Frentiu. CLIMATIC: CLIMAte change and the risk of mosquito-borne virus Transmission In the PaCific, $AUD 73,000
- ANU ECR Travel Grant 2014, $AUD 2,500
Leadership
- Section Editor for PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Reviewer for journals including The Lancet Planetary Health, BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Public Health, BMC Global Health, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS One, Environmental Research, Environmental Health Perspective, Viruses, and Biology
- Supervisor of Honours, Masters’ and PhDs’ students
- Examiner for student theses and NHMRC grants
- Member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion member and the International Society for Infectious Diseases
Key publications
Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains
2024
The Lancet Planetary Health
9(4):e304-e313
Arbovirus transmission in Australia from 2002 to 2017
2024
Biology
13(7):524
Estimation of mosquito-borne and sexual transmission of Zika virus in Australia: Risks to blood transfusion safety
2020
PLoS Negl Trop Dis.
14:e0008438.
Impact of Natural Disasters and Pandemics on Blood Supply: A systematic review
2023
Health Sciences Review
7:100087
Ross River virus in Australian blood donors: possible implications for blood transfusion safety
2018
Transfusion.
58:485-492.
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