Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Richard Kock - Royal Veterinary College, UK

Richard Kock has spent 44 years as a veterinary scientist and conservationist focused on One Health, wildlife health and disease focused on Africa and Asia. His career included clinical veterinary practice and clinical/research work with non-domestic animals with the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London (ZSL), both captive and free ranging wildlife, and secondment to the Kenya Wildlife Services in Nairobi Kenya (parastatal wildlife authority) to set up a veterinary department, then to the African Union Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU IBAR) focused on eradication of rinderpest virus and control of other epidemic diseases at the wildlife livestock human interface across Africa. He then took up a position as Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases at Royal Veterinary College London, developing a research programme and supported by over £13 million research funding. He has worked closely with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London (PANDORA project), including designing and establishing a joint One Health Masters programme and a Pandemics Preparedness course (University of London). He is now an independent scholar and consultant, vice president of the (Global) Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) and lectures in the UK and internationally.

Executive Editors

Professor Robyn Alders - Australian National University, Australia

Robyn Alders AO, Honorary Professor, Development Policy Centre, Australian National University, and Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House Global Health Programme. For over 30 years, she has worked closely with family and smallholder livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, South and SE Asia, and Oceania as a veterinarian, researcher, and colleague, with an emphasis on the development of sustainable infectious disease control in resource-limited areas in support of food and nutrition security, income generation, wildlife conservation, and public health. Robyn’s research and development interests include sustainable food and nutrition security, One Health, gender equity, inclusive policies, and science communication. Commissioner with The Lancet-PPATS Prevention of Viral Spillover Commission. Lead, OFFLU Socio-economic Working Group.

Dr Hans Keune - University of Antwerp, Belgium

Hans Keune (PhD) is a political scientist (University of Amsterdam) and PhD in environmental sciences (University of Antwerp). He works on critical complexity, inter- en transdisciplinarity, action-research, expert elicitation and decision support; environment, nature and health, OneHealth. He coordinates the Chair Care and the Natural Living Environment, is core member of the Network for EcoHealth and One Health (NEOH), expert at the Belgian Superior Health Council and lead author at the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): currently for the Nexus Assessment.

Dr Craig Stephen - University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Craig Stephen has devoted his career to developing ideas, people, policies and evidence to concurrently promote the health of people and animals and their shared environments. Craig trained as a veterinarian and epidemiologist. He is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Clinical Professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He currently leads the McEachran Institute, a Canadian charitable organization that believe that action is the key to a future where every species and generation can achieve their full health potential. He has worked extensively on issues we face in the current polycrisis including biodiversity loss, pandemic and emerging diseases prevention and climate change impacts on health.

Dr Katie Woolaston - Queensland University of Technology

Dr Katie Woolaston is an interdisciplinary researcher, lawyer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at QUT. Dr Woolaston’s research is focused on international and domestic wildlife law and the regulation of the human-wildlife relationship. She is particularly interested in using the social sciences to resolve long-held and deeply-rooted attitudes and values that are contrary to conservation and embedding such processes in law and policy. Dr Woolaston’s current research is focused on human-wildlife conflicts, and the integration of One Health approaches in wildlife and environmental policy in the wake of COVID-19. She was an expert on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) panel concerning Biodiversity and Pandemics, and is on the Technical Advisory Group of the United Nations Environment Program’s 'Nature4Health' Initiative.