Stephen Doggett Is a Senior Hospital Scientist with the Department of Medical Entomology

Stephen L. Doggett – Biography

Senior Hospital Scientist, Department of Medical Entomology, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, WESTMEAD NSW 2145, Australia.

Stephen Doggett is a Senior Hospital Scientist with the Department of Medical Entomology, ICPMR, at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. His research background in entomology is extremely broad having worked on and published articles relating to ticks and tick borne diseases, mosquito surveillance, mosquito borne diseases, biological control, vector competence, bird mites, and most recently, a series on bed bugs. To date, he has authored/co-authored 95 publications, produced 46 reports for industry and health bodies, and presented over 100 lectures at conferences and meetings. His current position is the Manager of the New South Wales Mosquito Monitoring and Arbovirus Surveillance Program, which is funded by NSW Health. Stephen is also well known for his insect photography, with many images appearing in nature, medical and entomological journals as well as newspapers and on the Department’s web sites.

Over the last five years, Stephen has been at the forefront of documenting the rise and impact of bed bugs within Australia, with results being published in Environmental Health, The Journal of Economic Entomology and numerous industry journals. Stephen is widely consulted on bed bugs and their control by the accommodation and pest control industries, and has given numerous lectures on bed bugs across Australia and overseas, as well as appearing on national and international television programs including Catalyst, A Current Affair, Today Tonight, Totally Wild and National Geographic. Over the last three years he has worked with an eminent group of pest managers and scientists in developing a Code of Practice for the Control of Bed Bugs, which is a world first. The Code was launched in July 2006 and has received international recognition by being adopted by the Italian and New Zealand Pest Control Industries.