IAH appoints new Head of Epidemiology
The Institute for Animal Health is pleased to announce that Dr Matthew Baylis has been appointed as Head of the Division of Epidemiology. Dr Baylis will take charge of a re-structured division responsible for experimental epidemiology and mathematical modelling of a number of infectious diseases across the Institute's three laboratories at Compton, Edinburgh and Pirbright. Dr Baylis joined the Institute in 1993 as a postdoctoral researcher, and became a research group leader in 2000. During this time he has made a significant impact in the development of mathematical models to predict the spread of BSE, scrapie, bluetongue, and African horse sickness. IAH Director Professor Paul-Pierre Pasto