PhD, BSc (MedSc), PGrad Dip Biomed Sc, FFSc (RCPA), FASM
Professor Geoffrey Coombs is the Chair of Public Health at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He currently supervises eight PhD students, and his areas of research are:
– The molecular evolution of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecium
– Molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
– Antimicrobial resistance surveillance
He has co-authored over 270 peer-reviewed scientific papers resulting in over 14,000 citations.With an h-index of 57, in 2024 he was ranked by ScholarGPS in the top 0.5% of all scholarsworldwide. In 2023 I was recognised as an Expertscape World Expert in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus – ranked in the top 0.03% based on 63,038 published articles from 2013
to 2023.
Professor Coombs is the Past-President for the International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Treasurer for the Australian Society for Antimicrobials, Chair for the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance, and Principal Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Faculty of Science: Microbiology.
Link: Geoffrey Coombs – Murdoch University – Overview
Professor Coombs joined AGAR in 1990. He is a long-term member of the AGAR Executive and has been the AGAR Chair since 2015.