Michael Philip Alpers AO, FRS, FAA is an Australian medical researcher, and John Curtin distinguished Professor of International Health, at Curtin University.^[1][2]

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

After graduating, he commenced a career, ultimately resulting in investigating kuru, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.^[3][4][5]

He is Honorary Senior Research Associate University College London.^[6]

Alpers and his work are the main theme of Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010).^[7] He is interviewed in The Genius And The Boys (2009).^[8]