Neil Anderson

Programme Director - Conservation Medicine and One Health

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and the Programme Director of the Conservation Medicine MVetSci and One Health MSc programmes. I qualified as a veterinarian in 1996 and gained extensive experience in first-opinion clinical practice. I obtained a PhD in wildlife epidemiology from the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and have field experience working with free-ranging wildlife populations in southern Africa, India and the UK. Through my teaching and research activities I seek to apply One Health principles to promote wildlife health and support the conservation of biodiversity. I have a particular interest in wildlife population health and disease transmission across the human-wildlife-livestock interface. Much of my research activities have focussed on the ecology and epidemiology of trypanosomiasis (the cause of human sleeping sickness) in sub-Saharan Africa. I am chair of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project and provide veterinary support for this, and other, conservation and wildlife research projects.