Dr Ian Handel

Senior Lecturer

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 6125
Email: ian.handel@ed.ac.uk

Street: The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian
City
Post code: EH25 9RG

Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes

Biography

Background

Graduated from Bristol Veterinary school in 1988. Two years as a research assistant in Surgery department working on anaesthetic pharmacokinetics. 1992 - 2003 owner and senior clinician in Honeybourne Veterinary surgery, a 5-vet companion animal practice in Cheltenham. Part time study for an MSc in Applied statistics and consultancy work in health economics leading to joining University of Edinburgh as a DEFRA funded research fellow in 2005 working on post-epidemic surveillance design (and part time PhD). Joined R(D)SVS in 2012 as a lecturer in Statistics and Veterinary Epidemiology. Lead design of undergraduate EBVM education, statistical and epidemiological support for postgraduate students and staff and development of statistical and epidemiological research projects in area of animal health and disease surveillance.

Qualifications

Master of Science, Sheffield Hallam University Applied Statistics (Distinction) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh The design and analysis of post-epidemic foot-and-mouth disease surveillance programmes Bachelors in Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol

Professional Qualifications

Chartered Statistician (Royal Statistical Society), CStat Graduate Statistician, GradStat Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, MRCVS

Collaborative Activity

Mark Bronsvoort's research group (Roslin Instute)

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

Organise evidence based veterinary medicine (EBVM) course across curriculumn

Year 2

Animal Life and Food Safety - Statistics for EBVM

Year 3

Animal Life and Food Safety - Epidmeiology & EBVM

Year 4

Final year preparation - EBVM

Year 5

Organiser

Final year rotations - EBVM tutorials

Postgraduate teaching

MSc Equine Science

Course organiser - Research methods in equine science

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Course organiser - Research methods in advanced clinical practice

OTHER

R Language workshops

Research

Research summary

To study disease in human and animal popualtions we can make use of data collected either directly for that purpose or available from other activities. Because lots of factors interplay in determining the occurence of disease in individuals we cannot simply look at the health of individuals and just one factor. My speciality, statistical epidemiology, is conerned with using mathematical and computational methods to cut through the complex interaction of influences on disease to give us a clearer understanding of drivers for disease and strategies to improve human and animal health.

Research students

Graduated

Carys Pugh - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Robert Kelly - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Stella Mazeri - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Paolo Motta - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Pending corrections

Siben Li - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Fiona Allan - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Andrew Gibson - PhD Student(co-supervise)

Charlotte Woolley - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Isobel McLachlan - PhD Student (co-supervise)

Current research interests

The use of quantitative statistical and epidemiological methods to address questions of animal/human health and disease surveillance.

Research activities

Equine Veterinary Journal (Journal) 1 Apr 2012 Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
DRYAD project workshop, DRYAD-UK Workshop 12 Sep 2011 Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Member of DRYAD advisory panel 1 Aug 2010 to 1 Aug 2011 Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

Publications

Implementation of high coverage mass rabies vaccination in rural Uganda using predominantly static point methodology 23 May 2019 In: Veterinary Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2019.04.013
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Characterizing livestock markets, primary diseases and key management practices along the livestock supply chain in Cameroon 10 Apr 2019 In: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, vol. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00101
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Oral bait handout as a method to access roaming dogs for rabies vaccination in Goa, India : a proof of principle study 1 Mar 2019 In: Vaccine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2019.100015
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Sociodemographic factors which predict low private rabies vaccination coverage in dogs in Blantyre, Malawi 28 Feb 2019 In: Veterinary Record, vol. 184, no. 9, pp. 281
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.105000
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Reproducibility of the mark-resight method to assess vaccination coverage in free-roaming dogs (6 pages) 25 Feb 2019 In: Research in Veterinary Science, vol. 123, pp. 305-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2019.02.009
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
A standard operating procedure reduces inter-operator variation and improves accuracy when measuring packed cell volume 2 Feb 2019 In: Veterinary Record
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104774
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Sequential Drilling and Drill Angulation Reduce the Accuracy of Drill Hole Start Location in a Synthetic Bone Model 31 Jan 2019 In: Veterinary Record
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104897
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Assessing the performance of a Fasciola gigantica serum antibody ELISA to estimate prevalence in cattle in Cameroon (11 pages) 3 Jan 2019 In: BMC Veterinary Research, vol. 15, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1762-z
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Assessment of Left Atrial Volume in Dogs: comparisons of Two-Dimensional and Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography with ECG-gated Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography 6 Sep 2018
Contribution to conference › Abstract (Published)
Association of Fasciola gigantica co-infection with bovine tuberculosis infection and diagnosis in a naturally infected cattle population in Africa 6 Sep 2018 In: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00214
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)

This article was published on Jun 14, 2019