eera

I am interested in the use of quantitative methods to inform animal-health policy decisions. I am a veterinary surgeon and have prior to joining academia owned, managed and worked in a companion animal clinic in South West England. After joining Edinburgh University I worked on a DEFRA funded VTRI fellowship exploring the economic analysis of foot and mouth disease exit strategies.

Foot and mouth disease is a disease of primary economic importance both as a direct consequence of its effects on agricultural productivity and for its indirect influence on the wider economy. This 4-year project investigated how choices made during an epidemic and the post epidemic exit-phase impact on the economic consequences of the disease. The work used techniques from epidemiology, economics, and simulation modelling.

In eera my work involves statistics, epidemiology and economics. I work on disease of livestock and companion animals in both the tropics and the UK.

Publications

Rowe, J.A., Handel, I.G., Thera, M.A., Deans, A-M., Lyke, K.E., Koné, A., Diallo, D.A., Raza, A., Kai, O., Marsh, K., Plowe, C.V., Doumbo, O.K. and Moulds, J.M. (2007). Blood group O protects against severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104:

Hahn, C.N., Handel, I.G., Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Green, S.L. and Mayhew, I.G. (2008) . Assessment of the utility of using intra- and inter-vertebral minimum sagittal diameter ratios in the diagnosis of cervical vertebral malformation in horses. Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound 49:

B. M. D. C. Bronsvoort, S. Parida, I. Handel, S. McFarland, L. Fleming, P. Hamblin, and R. Kock. Serological survey for foot-and-mouth disease virus in wildlife in eastern africa and estimation of test parameters of a nonstructural protein enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for buffalo. Clin Vaccine Immunol, 15(6):1003–1011, 2008.

B. M. d. Bronsvoort, B. Koterwas, F. Land, I. G. Handel, J. Tucker, K. L. Morgan, V. N. Tanya, T. H. Abdoel, and H. L. Smits. Comparison of a flow assay for brucellosis antibodies with the reference celisa test in west african bos indicus. PLoS ONE, 4(4):e5221, 2009.