Stephen L. Doggett is the Director of the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He has over 35 years’ experience in the field of medical entomology, produced almost 650 papers and presented over 450 lectures at various local and international conferences. His research background is broad having published articles on mosquito surveillance, mosquito-borne diseases, mosquito management, ticks and tick-borne diseases, and bed bugs, and has been cited by more than 1,800 scientific papers.

Stephen serves on a number of national and international scientific boards and is the Medical, Veterinary and Urban subject editor for the premier Australian entomological journal, Austral Entomology. Stephen is the senior editor for ‘A Code of Practice for the Control of Bed Bug Infestations in Australia’, which is the first industry standard developed in the world against modern bed bugs. The success of this standard has been evident by the fact that Australia is the only nation to have seen a decline in bed bug numbers, which is saving the national economy hundreds of millions of dollars.

Stephen has recently become the Chief Editor for the newsletter of the Federation of Asian and Oceanic Pest Managers Associations (FAOPMA). This is the most influential pest management organisation in the world and is responsible for protection the homes and lives of over four billion people.

Stephen also authored the field guide ‘Do You Have Bed Bugs?’, which has been published in six languages. He is an internationally awarded insect photographer and has more than 2,260 published images and held an exhibition of this work in 2014, called ‘Intimate Glimpses’. Produced with colleagues in 2016, the book ‘A Guide to Mosquitoes of Australia’, which uses many of his images, won the prestigious Whitley Award for the best Australian natural history field guide in 2016. Stephen is now using his many images in his next book, ‘World’s Weirdest Mosquitoes’, which focuses on the unusual aspects of mosquitoes, and aims to be both educational and entertaining.

In 2012, Stephen was awarded the inaugural ‘Award for Excellence’ for services to the Australian pest management industry. This was presented to him by the national peak body, the Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association.

Without a question, Stephen’s greatest achievement to date is to be the Senior Editor and multiple author on the first academic text book on bed bugs for 50 years. Produced in collaboration with co-editors from the USA and Malaysia (Profs Dini Miller and Chow-Yang Lee), ‘Advances in the Biology and Management of Modern Bed Bugs’ is global effort with some 60 authors from across the world, has 46 chapters, and is more than 460 pages in length. Advances is considered to be the most significant text in the field of urban and medical entomology for many years, and was released in March 2018. Stephen was the senior author on nine chapters and co-author on four, and developed the idea for the book.