Bovine TB: TB Advisory Group - Members
Peter Jinman (Chairman)
A partner in a veterinary practice in Herefordshire since 1979. Previous positions include: President of the British Veterinary Association, and member of TB Core Stakeholder Group. Currently member of Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, member England Implementation Group for the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy, member Veterinary Surveillance Strategy Business Assurance Group, and Deputy Chair SEAC (Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee).
Brian Jennings
Suckler beef farmer from west Devon. Previously dairy farmer. Director and Beef Adviser of Mole Valley Farmers Ltd. Previously Chair of NFU’s Animal Health and Welfare Committee. Was involved in establishment of RUMA (responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture alliance) a cross industry group which has developed codes of practice for the use of medicines for all species of food producing livestock. Privy Council appointed lay member of the RCVS Council and Chairman of its Disciplinary Committee.
Bill Madders
Dairy and arable farmer from Staffordshire, farming on southern edge of the Derbyshire/Staffordshire TB hotspot. Chairman of Defra Pre-movement Testing Stakeholder Group (2004-5) which produced its report of recommendations in June 2005. Was member of TB Core Stakeholder Group. Recently completed independent Review of Livestock Movement Controls.
James Kirkwood
Chief Executive and Scientific Director, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare & Humane Slaughter Association. Chairman, Zoos Forum. Deputy Chair, Companion Animal Welfare Council. Member of Defra Wildlife Health and Welfare Strategy Board. Independent Auditor of the humaneness of MAFF’s badger dispatch procedures in the Krebs/Bourne randomised badger culling trial (99-00). Visiting Professor, Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College.
Andrew Cunningham
Reader in Wildlife Epidemiology, Institute of Zoology, London. Head of
Wildlife Epidemiology, Institute of Zoology, London. Member of the Veterinary Surveillance Strategy Quality Business Assurance Group. Current research
interests include: infectious disease threats to wildlife, in particular
emerging infectious diseases of, or from, wildlife, their drivers and
the threats they pose to biodiversity conservation and to human health.
Working on laboratory, field and computer-based projects in Britain and
around the world.
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