Rate My Professor Joshua Aleri

Dr Joshua Aleri is a Senior Lecturer in Production Animal Health and Management at Murdoch University's School of Veterinary Medicine within the College of Environmental and Life Sciences. Holding qualifications including a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM), Master of Science (MSc in Clinical Studies), PhD, and Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (MANZCVS) in Epidemiology, Aleri has established a career centered on advancing ruminant health and production medicine.

Aleri's research interests include veterinary epidemiology, immune competence and stress responsiveness in dairy cattle, biosecurity practices on dairy farms, prevalence of diseases such as Theileria orientalis, mortality and culling patterns in beef and dairy systems, and welfare assessments. His pioneering work involves developing methods to quantify overall immune performance during the calving transition period, linking it to health outcomes like parasite resistance, growth rates, milk quality, and disease incidence. Collaborating with CSIRO and Victorian agricultural departments, this research supports improved animal welfare, health management, and farm profitability. Aleri also supervises honours theses on topics including Theileria orientalis distribution, anthelmintic resistance, and parasite burdens in cattle.

Recognized for his impact, Aleri received the Ruminant Well-being Research Award at the 2018 World Buiatrics Association Congress in Japan, the Gustav Rosenberger Memorial Award in 2014, and the Victorian Farmers Research Award in 2016 for outstanding ruminant research. Select publications comprise 'Distribution and Prevalence of Theileria orientalis Genotypes in Adult Lactating Dairy Cows in South West Region of Western Australia' (2023), 'A descriptive retrospective study on mortality and culling in beef and dairy cattle production systems of Western Australia (1981–2018)' (2021), 'Advances in Understanding Immune Response in Dairy Cattle' (2021), 'Periparturient immunosuppression and strategies to improve dairy cow health during the periparturient period' (2016), 'Associations between immune competence, stress responsiveness, and production in Holstein-Friesian and Holstein-Friesian × Jersey heifers reared in a pasture-based production system in Australia' (2019), and 'A description of biosecurity practices among selected dairy farmers across Australia' (2020), amassing over 300 citations.