England
Year: 2018
Project: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) project. Supporting Evidence-Based Policy: a longitudinal study of AMR risk behaviors among livestock keeping communities in India.
Job title: Research Associate
Client: Royal Veterinary College, University of London
Location: Maharashtra, India
Skills: Research
Thematic areas: Antimicrobial resistance, animal health, human health, animal production, risk perception, behaviour
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Review of the AMR literature related to India
- Development of research methods and tools particularly relating to AMR risk perception and behaviour.
- Conducting household interviews, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and observation.
Year: 2015
Project: One Health project
Job title: Research Fellow
Client: University of Reading, England
Location: Maharashtra, India
Skills: Research
Thematic areas: One Health, animal health, human health, animal production, dairy sector, mastitis
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Review of the One Health literature
- For the purpose of the development of a mobile diagnostic App for mastitis: collecting cow bio-data, taking common and thermal pictures of the udder, taking temperature of the udder and to test each quarter of the udder with the Draminski mastitis counter.
Year: 2008-2014
Project: Ph.D degree
Job title: Doctoral researcher
Department/University: School of Agriculture, Policy & Development, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
Location: Reading, England
Skills: Research methods, qualitative data analysis, quantitative data analysis, SPSS, literature review, questionnaire design
Thematic areas: Public health, Avian influenza A(H5N1), animal health policy, Egypt, risk perception and behaviour, poverty, decision support tools
Geerlings, E & Heffernan, C (2018) Predicting risk of avian influenza A(H5N1) in Egypt: the creation of a community level metric. BMC public health, 18(1), 388.
ISVEE 2012
13th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology & Economics held in Maastricht from 20-24 November 2012.
“HPAI risk perception of poultry keepers within the traditional poultry sector in Egypt”
Geerlings, E (2010) Uncertain Times in Egypt. The Future of Family Farming - Farming Matters. ILEIA Magazine. March 2010.