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| Position | Director, GCEID |
Prof. Martyn Jeggo is the Director of GCEID (Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases). Since September 2002 until recently he held the position of Director of CSIRO Livestock Industries’ Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL).
From 1996 - 2002, Prof. Jeggo was the Head of the Animal Production and Health Science Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Agriculture (Food and Agricultural Organisation/International Atomic Energy Agency), in Vienna, Austria. In that role he managed a range of FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Programs involving over 200 research contracts relating to animal production and health that were operational in some 130 countries. Amongst other international activities he also developed an international external quality assurance program for veterinary laboratories.
For the past 15 years he has overseen the management of laboratory networks dealing with rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in Africa, Foot-and-mouth disease in Asia, and brucellosis worldwide. He has visited over 150 national veterinary laboratories in Africa, Asia and the Americas, and was director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories in Yemen Arab Republic, and Head of the Department of Immunology at the UK’s Institute of Animal Health Pirbright Laboratories.
Prof. Jeggo holds a:
- Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, UK
- Master of Tropical Veterinary Science, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, UK
- Doctor of Philosophy, Surrey University, UK
