Dirk Pfeiffer

Dirk is a Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, and Head of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. He is currently working on several projects covering animal diseases such as avian influenza, African swine fever and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in companion animals. He is also a Co-Course Director of the MSc Veterinary Epidemiology and MSc Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health by Distance Learning. Dirk holds an Honorary Professorship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Silvia Alonso Alvarez

Silvia is a lecturer in veterinary public health. Her research interest include the epidemiology of zoonoses and specially vector-borne diseases. She has also an interest in animal and human health in developing countries.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

David Brodbelt

Dave Brodbelt is a Senior Lecturer in Companion Animal Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College and is a European Veterinary Specialist in Anaesthesia.

Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Infection & Immunity

Jackie Cardwell

Jackie is a Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include equine infectious disease, zoonotic disease, companion animal clinical epidemiology and (human) mental health. She is co-course Director for the MSc in Control of Infectious Disease in Animals (CIDA).

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Julian Drewe

Julian is a Research Fellow in Veterinary Epidemiology and a European Veterinary Specialist in Zoological Medicine. He is particularly interested in finding out how diseases transmit between wildlife, domestic animals and humans.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Javier Guitian

Javier is a Professor of Veterinary Public Health and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group

Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Clinical

Barbara Haesler

Barbara is working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) developing frameworks to assess the impact of foodborne and zoonotic diseases and their mitigation in developing countries.

Brendan Jackson

Brendan is a postdoctoral assistant lecturer. His main area of research relates to bone and cartilage metabolism, and in particular the use of biomarkers.

Research Programme: Lifestyle

Heiko Nathues

Heiko is a Senior Research Fellow and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. His current research focuses on Enzootic Pneumonia in pigs. The project “Advanced statistical analysis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in pigs” is part of the Marie-Curie-Actions of the European Commission’s Framework Programme.

Jonathan Rushton

Jonathan is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Health Economics and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. His work focuses on improving the wellbeing of people and animals through better resource allocation to animal health, disease and welfare problems.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Katharina Staerk

Katharina is Professor of Veterinary Public Health Management.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Kim Stevens

Kim is an Assistant Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, the effect of climate change on the epidemiology of disease, risk assessment and spatial modelling.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Christine Thuranira-McKeever

Christine's key responsibility is to provide academic guidance and leadership to the postgraduate courses of Livestock Health and Production and Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health. This includes managing the content of the courses offered, ensuring appropriate management of students‘ progress, ensuring appropriate teaching strategies, co-ordinating the administration of the course and liaising with a range of external partners and collaborators.

Kristien Verheyen

Kristien is a Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology. Her research focuses on equine epidemiology, with projects on musculoskeletal injuries in racehorses, epidemiology of common clinical disorders in the UK horse population and health and welfare of working horses overseas.

Research Programmes: Lifestyle and Animal Welfare

Barbara Wieland

Barbara is a Lecturer in Veterinary Epidemiology and strand leader of the Professional Studies Strand of the BVetMed course. She is involved in projects on African Swine Fever and leads the epidemiological part of a study into Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS).

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Wendy Beauvais

Wendy is currently working as a Research Assistant in Epidemiology within the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group.

Solenne Costard

Solenne is a Research Associate appointed jointly by the Royal Veterinary College and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI Website) in Kenya.  She has recently completed her PhD and is currently working on several epidemiological projects and various diseases including African Swine Fever (ASF) and Avian Influenza.

Guillaume Fournie

Will Gilbert

Bryony Jones

Bryony is a research assistant for the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health group (VEPH), working for Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer. She is 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.

 

Georgina Limon-Vega

Georgina is a Research Associate working as a member of the Epidemiology Division. She is involved in various projects in the VEPH division combining animal welfare, epidemiology and public health research.

Alex Mastin

Alex is one of Professor Dirk Pfeiffer's research assistants in the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health group. He is currently working on projects relating to swine influenza in English pig herds; biosecurity measures in English and Welsh beef suckler herds; avian influenza in Viet Nam and Thailand; and Echinococcus granulosus infection in farm dogs in South Powys, Wales.

Carola Sauter-Louis

Carola’s main role is to coordinate a research project on Bovine Neonatal Pancytopenia (BNP) in Germany. Therefore she is based in Germany, but associated with the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group. Her job includes coordination of students working on this project, keeping in touch with farmers and veterinarians within Germany, updating them on the situation and collecting data from the farms. Also she is in touch with researchers within Germany and internationally on this subject.

Research Programme: Clinical

Clinical Service: Farm Animal Health

Martina Velasova

Martina is a Research Assistant in epidemiology division working mainly on a research project investigating the risk factors for Post Weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in pigs in England. She is also interested in respiratory diseases in pigs and zoonoses.

Pablo Alarcon Lopez

Pablo is a PhD student in veterinary epidemiology. His research focuses on the investigation of the epidemiology of post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome and on the use of research evidence by farmers for the control of infectious diseases.

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Mieghan Bruce

Mieghan is PhD student with the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) studying the impact of Brucellosis in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Her supervisors are Jonathan Rushton and Javier Guitian.

Elisa Lewis

Veronica Marsh

Veronica is a PhD student working for the Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health group under the supervision of Dr Amanda Nevel and Prof Katharina Stärk.

Raphaelle Metras

Research Programme: Infection & Immunity

Stephanie Middleton

Stephanie is based within the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health group. She is currently working on her PhD researching risk factors for canine cancer.

Sophie Molia

Sophie is a veterinary epidemiologist at CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). She is currently based in Bamako, Mali, working on several epidemiological projects on avian influenza in Africa, whilst completing her PhD on a part-time basis under the supervision of Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer.

Claire Okell

Dan O'Neill

Dan is a PhD student in VEPH studying 'Online surveillance: Acquired and inherited disease of dogs and cats'.

Joshua Onono

Joshua is a PhD student in the VEPH group looking at control and transmission of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in cattle production systems in Kenya

Apisit Prakarnkamanant

Apisit is a PhD student from Thailand. His PhD project is focused on assessing the risk of HPAI H5N1 in Thailand which is supervised by Prof. Dirk U Pfeiffer and Dr. Jonathan Rushton

Jennifer Summers

Jennifer is currently working on a PhD in the field of small animal epidemiology (project title:  'The efficacy of antimicrobials in the treatment of canine pyoderma in the UK').

Barbara Tornimbene

Barbara is a PhD Student in Epidemiology & Virology

Alma Yrjö-Koskinen

The aim of Alma's PhD research is to evaluate which factors influence livestock owners' access to East Coast fever control in Tanzania, and how this information could be used to improve disease control policies. She is supervised by Decland McKeever and Jonathan Rushton at the RVC, and Paul Gwakisa from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania.

Shirley Benbow

Shirley's main role is as PA to the Head of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group, but she also acts as secretary to the Group as a whole. Her job includes coordinating a busy electronic diary; organising meetings; making overseas travel arrangements; maintaining various group databases; dealing with expense claims; maintaining accurate records of grant documentation and expenditure; liaising with HR regarding recruitment of new staff; coordinating stats requests from students. She is also responsible for the booking of the CEEED seminar room.

Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group at the RVC

This page was last modified on 28 March 2011