Media notes - Meritorious

PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL (PSM)
Dr Lorna Faye MELVILLE AM, PO Box 841, Palmerston NT 0831
For outstanding public service in safeguarding the viability and future of theAustralian
livestock industry.
Dr Melville has played a major role in safeguarding the viability and future of Australia's
livestock industry by: making a very significant contribution to increasing Australian and world
knowledge of arboviruses; ensuring the early detection of newly arrived arboviruses in
northern Australia; playing a key role in Australia's National Arbovirus Monitoring Program for
many years to underpin market access; developing and maintaining a top class veterinary
laboratory that provides quality, reliable diagnostics and certification services; and, in the
past, played a very significant role as a veterinary pathologist in the Brucellosis and
Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign. In addition, Dr Melville has initiated and led a unique
program of research on the diseases of farmed crocodiles that has enabled Australia's
crocodile industry to become and maintain its position as the supplier of the world's finest
quality skins. Dr Melville is a very strong advocate and proponent for collaboration both within
and outside of Australia, and has current or past collaborative projects with researchers from
the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Defence Department, Department of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry, NSW and Queensland Departments of Primary Industries, and peak
animal industry bodies.
Awards/recognition include:
Appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in the AD08 Honours List for her service to
veterinary science in the field of virology through research, advisory roles and surveillance
programs in the area of arbovirus infection.
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