Dr Doug Gray

Doug Gray is Research Program Manager for Animal Health. The program focuses on issues that enable smallholder farmers to refine their livestock management toward production and income-generation, in contrast to 'keeping' livestock solely as an asset. The emphasis is on diseases of regional significance, including transboundary diseases, zoonotic diseases, diseases affecting production and diseases affecting trade and market access.

Dr Gray joined ACIAR in June 2008 after working for five years as a consultant in livestock reseach and development in Asia and Australia. Between 1998 and 2003 Dr Gray was based in the Philippines as regional coordinator for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI - www.ilri.org). Before that he was at the University of New England, Armidale, teaching and researching parasitology, disease control and extension. Dr Gray trained in Glasgow, Scotland as a zoologist and parasitologist and migrated to Australia 'by accident' after some years with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Nigeria and Ecuador.