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Prof Brian Perry
BVM&S MSc DTVM DVM&S Dr (h.c.)
OBE
FRCVS
- Location: Perthshire
- Year of Fellowship: 1995
- Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Learning (MCL)
Field of work
Universities and colleges
Areas of special interest
- International development
- One Health
- Epidemiology and impact assessment
Areas of support
- International issues
- One Health Agenda
- Public engagement
Professional positions
- Chairman, Strategic Advisory Board, Afrique One Aspire, African Research Consortium for Ecosystem and Population Health, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
- Board member, International Committee, World Horse Welfare
- Member, Technical Committee, GALVmed managed (and AgResults funded) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Vaccine Challenge Project
- Member, Network Management Board, International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN), Medical Research Council (MRC)-funded international network http://www.intvetvaccnet.co.uk/network-management-board), and coordinator of monthly IVVN Webinars
Awards
- FRCVS (1995)
- OBE, 2002 for services to veterinary science in developing countries.
- Sir Frederick McMaster Fellowship, (CSIRO), Australia, 2004
- International Outstanding Scientist, Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 2004.
- British Veterinary Association, Trevor Blackburn Award, outstanding contributions to animal health and welfare in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2012.
- Honorary Doctorate in Animal Science (Doctor Honoris Causa), 2015, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
- Emeritus Fellow, International Livestock Research Institute ILRI, 2021
Biography
Brian Perry is an international development scientist with over 50 years of professional experience. He currently holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Edinburgh, a Visiting Professorship of Tropical Veterinary Science at the University of Oxford, and he is an Emeritus Fellow of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
Brian has lived and worked in UK, Ethiopia, Colombia, Zambia, USA and Kenya, and has undertaken research and development projects and consultancies in many other countries of Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. His professional experience and expertise lie in six key areas:
a) The epidemiology, dynamics and economic impacts of livestock diseases in Africa, Asia and Latin America;
b) The roles of livestock in processes of development, inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in low and middle income countries;
c) The leading and management of independent evaluations of publicly-funded investments by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the World Bank in agricultural development and health in different regions of the world;
d) The roles of working equids in agriculture and livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries, and
e) The use of probing interviews as a science management and communication tool.
He has published more than 300 scientific articles in refereed journals, books, chapters and scientific proceedings as author or co-author. Orcid: 0000-0002-6962-2102
Brian has lived and worked in UK, Ethiopia, Colombia, Zambia, USA and Kenya, and has undertaken research and development projects and consultancies in many other countries of Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. His professional experience and expertise lie in six key areas:
a) The epidemiology, dynamics and economic impacts of livestock diseases in Africa, Asia and Latin America;
b) The roles of livestock in processes of development, inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in low and middle income countries;
c) The leading and management of independent evaluations of publicly-funded investments by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the World Bank in agricultural development and health in different regions of the world;
d) The roles of working equids in agriculture and livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries, and
e) The use of probing interviews as a science management and communication tool.
He has published more than 300 scientific articles in refereed journals, books, chapters and scientific proceedings as author or co-author. Orcid: 0000-0002-6962-2102