ProfessorDavid Phalen

Associations

• Member Coordinating Committee for the Koala Health Hub
• Member: Orange-Bellied Parrot Recovery Team Veterinary Technical Reference Group
• Member: Wildlife Health Australia
• Member: Wildlife Disease Association
• Member: Australasian Chapter of the Association of Avian Veterinarians
• Associate Editor: Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery

Awards and Honours

• 2011 TJ Lafeber Avian Practitioner Award

In the Media

Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Life and Environmental Science was extensively quoted about the impact of the bushfires on native wildlife in the article Incendies en Australie : « Il est tout à fait possible que certaines espèces soient perdues à jamais » in the French paper LeMonde.

Jan

2020

Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Life and Environmental Science was extensively quoted about the impact of the bushfires on native wildlife in the article, Incendies en Australie: vers l’une des plus grandes extinctions de l’histoire de l’humanité? La Presse in Montreal, Canada Jan 2020 Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Life and Environmental Science was quoted extensively by reported M.K. Manoylov Chlamydia has a bigger effect on koalas than researchers believedhttps://scienceline.org/2019/11/koala-chlamydia/ Dec 2019 Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Life and Environmental Science explained that pelicans can fly large distances and are often forage in farm dams in the article Four pelicans found far from home near a dam in rural Picton. Daily Telegraph. Jun 2018

Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences spoke to ABC Radio (Hobart, Northern Tasmania) about an ineffective disinfectant, which led to a disease outbreak endangering orange-bellied parrots.

Mar 2017

Associate Professor David Phalen from the School of Veterinary Science spoke to ABC Radio Hobart and ABC News Onlineabout an ineffective disinfectant, which led to a disease outbreak endangering orange-bellied parrots.

Mar 2017

ABC (702 Sydney, 666 Canberra, 105.7 Darwin) reported new GPS tracking devices which are part of a project jointly run by the University of Sydney are being used to address the fall in koala numbers. Associate Professor David Phalen from the Faculty of Veterinary Science was interviewed on ABC News (Canberra, 24) about the tracking devices and possible causes of the decline.

Dr David Phalen from the Faculty of Veterinary Science was interviewed on 2CS FM about the need to quarantine the Bellinger River after a pathogen killed almost 300 turtles.

Associate Professor David Phalen from the Faculty of Veterinary Science was interviewed on ABC Riverland Today about sleepy lizards showing signs of anaemia

Takepart (US) interviewed Associate Professor David Phalen from the Faculty of Science on his research on how shingleback lizards are being affected by agricultural chemicals.

Jan 2015

Lizard illness makes it the 'canary in the coal mine' for chemical exposure. The well-known shingle back or sleepy lizard suffers a high prevalence of anemia associated with agricultural chemical exposure, research contributed to by the University of Sydney reveals

Jan 2015

ABC online and the Adelaide Advertiser interviewed Dr David Phalen from the Faculty of Veterinary Science on research showing sleepy lizards are being affected by agricultural chemicals

Dec 2014

702 ABC Sydney and ABC Illawarra interviewed Associate Professor David Phalen on flying foxes

2014