Dr Ellen Hughes

Core Scientist Global Burden of Animal Diseases

  • The Roslin Institute
  • The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Contact details

Address

Street

The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus

City
Midlothian
Post code
EH25 9RG

Biography

Background

I am a veterinary epidemiologist with a background in emerging and endemic infectious diseases, diagnostic methods, and disease burden assessment, in the UK and Africa. I began my career as an historian before crossing the arts/science divide and studying veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge. I qualified in 2013 and spent four years working in mixed, small, and exotic animal practice in the UK. During this time, I undertook a masters in One Health at the University of Edinburgh, before undertaking my PhD in infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Glasgow. My PhD research focussed on the epidemiology of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) in livestock and people in northern Tanzania, and diagnostic methods and the sero-epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a patient population in Glasgow.

In 2023, I joined the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme at the University of Liverpool, working on systematic approaches to data flows and model parameterisation, burden assessment case studies, and leading the production of the GBADs Technical Guide. I am continuing this work in my current role as core scientist with the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme, now at the Roslin Institute, led by Prof Jonathan Rushton.

I am also a resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health, specialising in population medicine.

Qualifications

PhD Veterinary epidemiology and public health, University of Glasgow (2022): “Serological investigations of emerging viral zoonoses: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in Tanzania and severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 in Scotland”

MSc One Health, University of Edinburgh (2017)

VetMB Veterinary medicine, University of Cambridge (2013)

MA (Hons) Veterinary medicine; Zoology (conservation biology and ecology), University of Cambridge (2010)

BA (Hons) English literature and history, University of Durham (2004)

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