Prof James Wood

Qualified: Royal Veterinary College (1988). Institution/Practice: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK. Career: James Wood is a veterinary epidemiologist and Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Medicine in the University of Cambridge Department of Veterinary Medicine, which he joined to direct the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium. Interests: He conducts multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases and his research interests are focused on infectious disease emergence, including studies of mammalian (pig and horse) influenza virus transmission and adaptation, pandemic influenza H1N1 impact in pigs, including zoonotic transfer and emergence of RNA viruses from fruit bats in Africa; this work includes development of methods to interpret such data.

Research activities include collaborative studies of control of bovine tuberculosis and bluetongue. He has numerous collaborators, including at WT Sanger Institute, AHVLA, IoZ, AHT, IAH, Warwick, Glasgow, University of Ghana and Institute of Development Studies STEPS Centre. He is co-chair of BEVA's Health and Medicines committee and is also a member of the Equine Disease Coalition. Qualifications: 2009 MA, University of Cambridge; 2002 Diplomat European College of Veterinary Public Health; 1998 PhD, Open University; 1991 MSc: Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; 1988 BVetMed: Royal Veterinary College; 1985 BSc: Physiology & Basic Medical Sciences, University College London.