Research and Policy Briefs

POLICY BRIEF: Indirect cost of ASF

Irmelin S. Helgesen, Andrew Barnes and Alyson S. Barratt.

POLICY BRIEF: Survey Report: Understanding Backyard Poultry Keepers and their Perspectives on Bird Flu

RESEARCH BRIEF: Machine learning for herd-level bovine Tuberculosis breakdown prediction (178KB, pdf)

Kajetan Stanski, Samantha Lycett, Thibaud Porphyre, May Fujiwara, Harriet Auty, Lisa Boden, Mark Bronsvoort

POLICY BRIEF: Commercial poultry producer and stakeholder views on control of Avian Influenza (AI) (104KB, pdf)

Orla Shotall and Carol Kyle

RESEARCH BRIEF: Improving the use of surveillance data: cryptosporidiosis as an exemplar zoonosis (160KB, pdf)

Sue Tongue, Alison Smith-Palmer and Geoffrey Foster

RESEARCH BRIEF: Evaluating the uptake of a new diagnostic test for sheep scab by livestock farmers using stochastic game theory (197KB, pdf)

S. Mohr, A. J. Nisbet, S. T. G. Burgess, T. Porphyre, M. Fujiwara, L. Matthews

POLICY BRIEF: Providing more reliable disease transmission risk estimates using data from small historic outbreaks. (100KB, pdf)

Kokouvi Gamado

RESEARCH BRIEF: Environmental factors and climate change implications of Louping ill virus infection in Scottish sheep farms (104KB, pdf)

Lucy Gilbert

RESEARCH BRIEF: Challenges to Bovine Viral Diarrhoea eradication in the UK and Ireland (125KB, pdf)

Orla Shotall and Adam Calo

POLICY BRIEF: An economic analysis of consequences of animals persistently infected with BVD virus (185KB, pdf)

Alyson S. Barratt, Alistair W. Stott, Roger W. Humphry, and George J. Gunn.

RESEARCH BRIEF Predicting the spread of ASF following introduction in Great Britain and its implication for Scotland (510KB, pdf)

POLICY BRIEF Characterising the climatic risk levels for bluetongue in Scotland (366KB, pdf)

Paul Bessell

POLICY BRIEF: The role of grazing in imaginaries of an economically viable, environmentally sustainable and high welfare dairy sector. (92KB, pdf)

Orla Shortall

POLICY BRIEF: Using slaughterhouse data and CTS data to identify risk factors for liver fluke (172KB, pdf)

Lucy Gilbert

RESEARCH BRIEF: Potential impact of using haulage companies on the network of pig movements (285KB, pdf)

POLICY BRIEF: Network representation of deer in Great Britain to inform surveillance and control of chronic wasting disease (189KB, pdf)

Theo Pepler and Rowland Kao

RESEARCH BRIEF: Impact of potential changes to movement standstills on FMD risks in Scotland

POLICY BRIEF: Risk assessment for the introduction and establishment of equine piroplasmosis in the UK (132KB, pdf)

Robert Coultous and Lisa Boden

RESEARCH BRIEF Modelling the within-herd spread of ASF and implication for the British industry (224KB, pdf)

RESEARCH BRIEF: Assessing the risk of CSF spread in Great Britain and its implication for Scotland (284KB, pdf)