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Prof Michael Thrusfield
MSc BVMS DTVM CBiol FRSB DipECVPH
FRCVS
- Location: East Lothian
- Year of Fellowship: 2021
- Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge
Field of work
Universities and colleges
Areas of special interest
- Epidemiology
Areas of support
- Collaborative research
- International issues
- One Health Agenda
- Translating research into veterinary practice
Professional positions
- Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Awards
- Dalrymple-Champneys Cup and Medal
Biography
Michael Thrusfield is Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology in the University of Edinburgh, graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1970.
He worked in the East Indies, and then gained postgraduate qualifications in tropical veterinary medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in virology at the Medical School of the University of Birmingham.
After a period in general practice, he returned in 1976 to the R(D)SVS, Edinburgh, as Lecturer in Epidemiology.
He has published the only general textbook on veterinary epidemiology (1986, 4th edn 2018; translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic), and over 170 wide-ranging publications (e.g., on foot-and-mouth disease, animal abuse and coral diseases). He has travelled extensively in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America, Europe, the Far East and the Pacific, advising government veterinary authorities, the European Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the development of disease control programmes, and lecturing at veterinary schools, research institutes and the European Commission, with responsibility for training EU veterinarians in epidemiology. He was seconded to the State Veterinary Service during and after the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic.
He was elected FRSB in 1996, was the first RCVS Recognised Specialist in Epidemiology, and is a foundation Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health. In 2012 he was awarded the Dalrymple-Champneys Cup and Medal.
He worked in the East Indies, and then gained postgraduate qualifications in tropical veterinary medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in virology at the Medical School of the University of Birmingham.
After a period in general practice, he returned in 1976 to the R(D)SVS, Edinburgh, as Lecturer in Epidemiology.
He has published the only general textbook on veterinary epidemiology (1986, 4th edn 2018; translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic), and over 170 wide-ranging publications (e.g., on foot-and-mouth disease, animal abuse and coral diseases). He has travelled extensively in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America, Europe, the Far East and the Pacific, advising government veterinary authorities, the European Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the development of disease control programmes, and lecturing at veterinary schools, research institutes and the European Commission, with responsibility for training EU veterinarians in epidemiology. He was seconded to the State Veterinary Service during and after the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic.
He was elected FRSB in 1996, was the first RCVS Recognised Specialist in Epidemiology, and is a foundation Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health. In 2012 he was awarded the Dalrymple-Champneys Cup and Medal.