Bryony Jones
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Bryony is a research assistant for the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health group (VEPH), working for Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer. She has been involved in several projects; a systematic review of zoonotic diseases with wildlife/livestock interactions, African swine fever risk assessment, rinderpest risk assessment, a bovine neonatal pancytopaenia case-control study and is editing a participatory risk assessment manual and training materials for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi. She started a PhD on a part-time basis in April 2012 focussing on the social ecology of peste des petitis ruminants.
Biography
Bryony graduated from Bristol veterinary school in 1987 and spent 4 years in mixed veterinary practice before studying for the MSc in Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh (1991-2). She then went as a VSO volunteer to be the Government Veterinary Officer in the Republic of Kiribati (1993-5). From 1995 to 2007 she worked in southern Sudan on the Operation Lifeline Sudan community-based animal health programme as project manager for VETAID, livestock programme coordinator for UNICEF and rinderpest eradication project manager for Veterinaires Sans Frontiers Belgium, which included the completion of the rinderpest vaccination programme and the establishment of the rinderpest surveillance system to verify abscence of rinderpest infection. From 2007 to 2009 she worked on several Avian Influenza projects for ILRI, building capacity for the use of participatory epidemiology for HPAI surveillance in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Egypt. In 2009 she returned to England to undertake the MSc Veterinary Epidemiology at RVC and London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene after which she joined the RVC as a research assistant, and recently started a PhD on a part-time basis.