Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake
ANU Medical School
ANU College of Health and Medicine
Sanjaya Senanayake is an Associate Professor and infectious diseases specialist at the ANU College of Health and Medicine.
He is an infectious diseases physician in full-time clinical practice in Canberra. He has been a medical media expert for over 15 years, culminating in about 700 local and international TV interviews during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Associate Professor Senanayake has a strong interest in emerging infectious diseases, with the publication in 2023 of the first human case in the world of Ophidascaris robertsi — where a live worm was pulled from his patient’s brain. This ended up being the most-read story in the history of the Guardian Australia.