Rob Woodgate

Biography

Rob Woodgate is a veterinarian with more than 25 years of experience in livestock health, production and research involving production systems in Mediterranean, non-seasonal rainfall and temperate, summer rainfall environments. He has more than 20 years of experience in field and laboratory parasitology of livestock in several states across Australia, including considerable experience in the diagnosis and treatment of parasites of sheep, cattle, goats, horses, dogs and cats. Rob also has extensive skills and experience facilitating communication and practice change at all levels of the livestock industries. Communication stakeholder targets include producers, secondary and tertiary students, veterinarians and agricultural consultants, state, national and international agribusiness, research providers and funders and many levels of government. Rob joined SAVS in 2012, and teaches parasitology and general animal health and production to Veterinary Science, Animal Science, Equine Science and Veterinary Technology students. Rob has also supervised several PhD and Masters students, as well as 14 Honours student's projects.

Research Interest

Sustainable parasite control of small ruminants – barber's pole worm control in sheep, epidemiology of re-infection of livestock at pasture.