Professor James Wood

Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science at Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge

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Co-Chair, Cambridge Infectious Diseases, and Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine

James Wood is co-chair of Cambridge Infectious Diseases and Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine

My research interests focus on the dynamics of infectious diseases particularly for emerging or zoonotic diseases at the interface of humans and animals. Mathematical modelling and more traditional epidemiological approaches are combined with detailed molecular studies of pathogen and host in a multidisciplinary framework.

Studies of infection dynamics should consider host ecology as well as the infection and its pathogenesis. My interests include influenza (currently avian influenza in relation to on farm biosecurity in GB), emergent viral infections of bats in sub-Saharan Africa (with Ghanaian and UK collaborators), coronaviruses and bovine tuberculosis control, including tricky policy challenges. In addition to my research interests, I am also involved in the Cambridge-Africa programme, which focuses on building links between Cambridge and African Institutions and which aims to strengthen Africa's own capacity for a sustainable research.

My position and research is generously supported by The ALBORADA Trust

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