Associate Professor Richard Bradbury has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Laboratory science) form the University of Tasmania. He began his career as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in the Australian Diagnostic Pathology Industry, finishing as a Senior Medical Scientist in the Microbiology Department of the Royal Hobart Hospital. After completing his PhD at the University of Tasmania School of Medicine while working at the Hospital, he joined academia. His career has involved both academic and clinical laboratory positions in Australia, West Africa, Eastern Europe, and the United States of America.

   A/Prof Bradbury is an internationally recognised parasitologist and is the former Team Lead of the Parasitic Diseases Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States of America. He is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Diagnostic Technical Advisory group for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the WHO focus group for the ongoing implementation of the Gap Assessment Tool for Neglected Tropical Diseases – Diagnostics. In 2023, he was a member of the select team which wrote the WHO Guidelines Development Group for Public health measures for the Control of strongyloidiasis. He has published widely and is an editor for the prestigious journal Emerging Infectious Diseases and Parasitology Section Editor for the American Society for Microbiology's textbook, The Manual of Clinical Microbiology.