Michael Alpers

Michael Philip Alpers, , is an Australian medical researcher, and John Curtin distinguished Professor of International Health, at Curtin University.

Education
Alpers graduated from University of Adelaide with a B.Sc. and M.B.B.S. and from University of Cambridge with an M.A.

Career and research
After graduating, he commenced a career, ultimately resulting in investigating kuru, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

He is Honorary Senior Research Associate University College London.

Alpers and his work are the main theme of Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010). He is interviewed in The Genius And The Boys (2009).