Andrew Peters

Associate Professor Andrew Peters

Wildlife Health and Pathology

Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences

Biography

Andrew Peters has a lifelong passion for wildlife and the environment that led him to a veterinary career at first, then a PhD and now his life as a teacher and researcher at the Gulbali Institute and Charles Sturt University, on Wiradjuri Country, Australia. Andrew has been privileged to hold the roles of President of the international Wildlife Disease Association and Deputy Chair of Wildlife Health Australia, amongst other professional leadership roles. His academic interest is in socio-ecological systems, and increasingly in the relationship between society and wildlife health. Andrew has worked closely with colleagues in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and is trying to imagine new ways of working in wildlife health that are deeply respectful of indigenous knowledge and justice.

Research
  • Wildlife population health
  • Wildlife health and society
  • Socio-ecological systems and One Health
  • Conservation biology and ecology
  • Natural ecology of infectious protists
  • Avian biology and ecology
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Das, T., Nath, B. K., Dhar, P. K., Peters, A., Forwood, J. K., Raidal, S. R., & Das, S. (2026). Safety and immunogenicity of a novel psittacine beak and feather disease vaccine and optimisation of a thermostable spray-dried formulation. Vaccine, 69, 1-16. Article 127989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127989
  • Dhar, P. K., Das, T., Nath, B. K., Chowdhury, P., Peters, A., Forwood, J. K., Raidal, S. R., & Das, S. (2025). A synthetic virus-like-particle based ELISA to replace the legacy HI for BFDV serodiagnosis. 65-66. Abstract from Association of Avian Veterinarians Australasian Committee 2025 Annual Conference, Lamington, Queensland, Australia.
  • Sullivan, S. A., Orosco, J. C., Callejas-Hernández, F., Blow, F., Lee, H., Ranallo-Benavidez, T. R., Peters, A., Raidal, S. R., Girard, Y. A., Johnson, C. K., Rogers, K. H., Gerhold, R., Mangelson, H., Liachko, I., Srivastava, H., Chandler, C., Berenberg, D., Bonneau, R. A., Huang, P.-J., ... Carlton, J. M. (2025). Comparative genomics of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis reveals genes involved in spillover from birds to humans. Nature Communications, 16, 1-15. Article 6487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61483-w
  • Wunderlich, N., Jeffries, P., Kilham, S., Ward, W., Peters, A., & Allan, C. (2025). What's in a name? Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogy shakes up our settler-colonial academic identities. Higher Education Research and Development, 1-15. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2552312
  • Das, S., Dhar, P., Das, T., Nath, B., Peters, A., Forwood, J., & Raidal, S. R. (2025). Psittacine beak and feather disease: Insights into BFDV genotype clusters, spillover dynamics, diagnostic dilemmas, and vaccine development. Abstract from Australasian Veterinary Poultry Association Oct 2025 Scientific Meeting, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.