Ed Peeler
Director of International Centre of Excellence for Aquatic Animal Health
Edmund graduated from Cambridge University in 1989 with a degree in veterinary medicine. After two years in farm animal practice he gained a masters in Veterinary Epidemiology and worked for the UK Department for International Development on a livestock development project in Kenya, followed by a PhD at Bristol Veterinary School. He has been employed at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) since 2001, where he has led development of aquatic animal epidemiology and risk. Edmund has been involved in numerous UK government and EU funded research projects and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers mainly on research into the application of epidemiology and risk analysis in aquatic animal health policy. Edmund provides advice to the UK government on aquatic animal health policy, notably contingency planning, surveillance and legislation. He has been a member of EU, European Food Standards Authority and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) committees and panels. He led a programme to develop aquatic animal health capacity in the Omani Ministry of Agriculture. He has undertaken animal health consultancies or training in Bhutan, Chile and Jamaica, and reviewed research aquatic animal health programmes in Canada, Norway and France. He is a former president of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (SVEPM) and was vice-president of the OIE Aquatic Animal Health Standards Commission between 2015-21. In 2020 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of Liverpool in Epidemiology and Population Health.
Email: ed.peeler@cefas.gov.uk
