Sirimon Thomas
Thesis title: Operationalising One Health for early warning of food insecurity and socio-ecological system breakdown in northern Kenya
- Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh
- International Livestock Research Institute
- Jameel Observatory
Contact details
- Email: sirimon.thomas@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Charnock Bradley Building
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Roslin
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Sirimon is a Kenyan/British national with an academic background in Biology and a maters in One Health from the Royal Veterinary College and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He previously worked in wildlife conservation in Kenya and Gabon, focussing on human-wildlife conflict and community-led conservation. He then switched to One Health seeking a broader perspective on development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, he was working in South Sudan on generating and using data to inform decision making and prioritisation in humanitarian response.