SEBI-Livestock Team Awarded Best Science / Research Team Recognition

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SEBI-Livestock Team Awarded Best Science / Research Team Recognition

Prof Andy Peters speaks into a microphone at a SEBI-Livestock event

Prof. Andy Peters retires from SEBI-Livestock after 50-year career

Staff and students at the University of Edinburgh's Easter Bush Campus gathered to mark the retirement of Professor Andy Peters. Prof. Peters was Programme Director of SEBI-Livestock from 2016-2023. With his team, he built a programme to support donors, donor partners, researchers, and policy makers to access and mobilise livestock data for evidence-based decision making
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Report back from Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM) meeting 2023

Report back from Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM) meeting

Dr. Fiona Allan shares a report back from Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM) meeting, which took place in March 2023 in Toulouse, France.
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Dr. Karen Smyth speaking with members of the LD4D community in 2020

Dr Karen Smyth appointed new SEBI-Livestock Program Director

Dr Karen Smyth has been appointed the new Program Director for SEBI-Livestock, the Centre for Supporting Evidence Based Decisions in Livestock. 
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Veterinary service drugs and vaccines in Ghana. Photo: S Apeadu, Unsplash

Antimicrobials, One Health and Livestock Data: Q&A with Carys Redman-White

Overuse of antimicrobials is making these vital medicines less effective, posing a risk to human and animal health. But our understanding of how and where antimicrobials are being used is limited. This means we cannot easily predict how antimicrobial resistance will evolve. PhD student Carys Redman-White is looking at new ways to use existing data to anticipate how antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance are advancing, which can inform future efforts to tackle this challenge.
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Tito Kibona from the research team, trains local veterinary health workers on surveillance methods.

Surveillance for causes of livestock abortion in Northern Tanzania closes important data gaps

A team of researchers, with support from SEBI-Livestock, undertook a study that combined field investigations and lab diagnoses to determine the causes of livestock abortion in Tanzania.
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Illustration of a farmer leading a bull

Free training resources aimed to improve dairy cattle fertility

Open-source videos can guide smallholder farmers in low-and middle-income countries to make better decisions
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