Professor James Wood
- Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science
- Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine
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About
James Wood is Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine. He is a veterinary epidemiologist and joined the Department in Cambridge in 2005, initially as Director of the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium, prior to appointment as Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science in 2009. He studies the dynamics of emerging infectious diseases, including viral infections of fruit bats in West Africa, focused in Ghana, mammalian influenza, rabies and bovine tuberculosis. Funders include BBSRC, MRC and the Alborada Trust.
Research
Research interests
- Animal health
- Food and health
- Infectious disease
- Modelling
- Veterinary medicine
James Wood is an epidemiologist in the Disease Dynamics Unit in Cambridge and conducts multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases, focussing on emerging infectious disease and control, with particular regard to ensuring that research impacts on policy. His research interests are focussed on One Health approaches to infectious disease emergence and its control, with research programmes based in UK, India, Ghana and Ethiopia. He is involved in collaborative studies of emergence of RNA viruses from fruit bats and control of bovine tuberculosis. He is one of the leaders of the Cambridge-Africa collaborative, capacity-building programme. He has numerous national and international collaborators. Professor Wood has published widely on infectious disease emergence and its drivers, including on viral diversity and zoonoses in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as on bovine TB transmission and its control in cattle. He has held research grants in excess of £25M, as well as capacity building partnership grants with African Institutions in excess of £7M.