Michelle Renwick graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1996. After working for twenty years in veterinary practice in the UK, Michelle took the opportunity to follow her interests and completed her Masters in Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health with the University of London in 2017. After moving to Australia in 2018, Michelle has worked on research projects within Melbourne Veterinary School at the University of Melbourne and worked as a foodborne disease epidemiologist in OzFoodNet for the Department of Health, Victoria. Currently, she is working on her PhD at the University of Melbourne on the subject of the efficiency of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli surveillance in the human population of Victoria, Australia.