Brian Perry, a British citizen, is an international development scientist, a veterinarian by profession and an epidemiologist by specialisation. He currently holds academic positions of Honorary Professor at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor of Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Oxford, UK. He is an Emeritus Fellow of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) https://www.ilri.org/people/brian-perry
Over the last 50 years he has specialised in exploring the impacts of livestock diseases and their control on processes of development and poverty reduction, and the interface between epidemiology and socioeconomics in evaluation such impacts. He has lived and worked in Ethiopia, Colombia, Zambia, United States and Kenya, and has consulted to research and development projects in many other countries of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. He has published more than 300 scientific articles in refereed journals, books and proceedings as author and co-author (Orcid 0000-0002-6962-2102).
He has also led many independent evaluations of the programmes of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in different countries of the world, including the global programmes of FAO to control avian influenza, and has contributed to several assessments of the World Bank investments in different countries of Africa and Asia.
He is a member of the Network Management Board, International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN), a Medical Research Council (MRC)-funded international network https://www.intvetvaccnet.co.uk/members/network-management-board, and coordinator of monthly IVVN Webinars. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the GALVmed-managed (and AgResults-funded) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Vaccine Challenge Project in six countries of eastern and southern Africa. He has also specialised in the roles of working equids in agriculture and livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries, and is a member of the International Committee, World Horse Welfare. In the field of One Health, he was Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board of Afrique One Aspire, a consortium of One Health institutions in Africa from 2009 to 2022.
At ILRI, he used probing interviews as a science management and communication tool:
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