Dr. Helen Faddy is a senior lecturer in biomedical science at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She holds honorary appointments at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood and the University of Queensland (UQ). She completed her BSc (hons) and PhD at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. She is particularly interested in the impacts of global change on human health and disease. Her current research is highly applied and focused on the implications of emerging infectious diseases for blood transfusion safety and public health more broadly, in Australia and globally. Helen enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate research students. She is the co-chair of the Virology subgroup of the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Working Party on Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases and has been invited to be a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization on multiple occasions.