GBADs presents at the 7th HDRF Next Generation Resilient Dairying Conference 2025 

Emma-Jane Murray represented GBADs in the Hannah Dairy Research Foundation (HDRF) Next Generation Resilient Dairying Conference 2025 in Edinburgh, 24th ...

GBADs presents at the International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health (ISESSAH) conference 2025. 

A number of GBADs members presented their work at the ISESSAH conference 2025 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. 14th - 16th ...

Introduction to GBADs’ new Model Builder Prototype

On Tuesday 14th October 2025, The GBADs Informatics team unveiled their all new Model Builder Portal via a presentation in ...

GBADs presents at the 9th International Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) conference. 

Wudu Temesgen presented his work on “Impact of Poor Animal Health on Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Livestock: A Case ...

GBADs Presents at FAO One Health Community of Practice on the Return on Investment of One Health and Community of Practice on Information and Communication Technologies for One Health.

On Wednesday 24th September, GBADs’ own Jonathan Rushton, Mieghan Bruce, and Deborah Stacey presented a learning dialogue within the FAO ...

GBADs presents at the Pan-African Donkey Conference (PADCO2)

Girma Astereye recently presented the findings of his PhD work "the burden of animal disease in working donkeys in Ethiopia" ...

GBADs at the 17th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) Conference, Sydney

During November 11-15, 2024, members of the GBADs programme attended the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE), ...

GBADs Annual Meeting, 7-8 November, Sydney

The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) Programme held its annual meeting in Sydney, Australia to take advantage of the ...

WOAH Volume 43 of the Scientific and Technical Review on ‘Global Burden of Animal Diseases’

The WOAH Scientific and Technical Review, Vol.43 on 'Global Burden of Animal Diseases’ is now available online here.The edition is ...

Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases

A new publication from William Gilbert, Thomas L Marsh, Gemma Chaters, Wudu T Jemberu, Mieghan Bruce, Wilma Steeneveld, Joao S ...

World Bank Middle East and North Africa Workshop, Tunisia

During 3rd – 7th March 2024, the World Bank Middle East and North Africa (MENA) project organised individual meetings and ...

Ethiopia Dashboard update

We have recently updated our Ethiopia Case Study Dashboard with the aim of developing country country-specific, user-friendly, and interactive dashboard. The dashboard was ...

GBADs Technical Workshop, Liverpool

During the week of the 11th December 2023, GBADs held a series of Workshops in Liverpool, United Kingdom. This allowed ...

A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Preparing National Veterinary Services for Transboundary Animal Disease Emergencies

Congratulations to Will Gilbert, David Adamson, Daniel Donachie, Keith Hamilton and Jonathan Rushton who have had the following publication ‘A Cost–Benefit Analysis ...

The Global Burden of Animal Diseases Executive Team Visits the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle.

During the past month, the GBADs Programme Executive Team from The University of Liverpool, World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), ...

GBADs Ethiopia Workshop, May 2023

The GBADs Ethiopia case study was launched in 2021 as proof of concept of GBADs frameworks and methods in estimating ...

GBADs special session, ISVEE 2022

The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme gave a Special Session presentation at ISVEE 16. Members of the GBADs ...

GBADs Annual Meeting, 2022

On Saturday 13th August, we had our annual meeting for 2022 in Halifax, Canada after ISVEE. We had discussions on ...

GBADs at the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE)

From August 7-12, 2022, members of the GBADs programme attended the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE), ...

Estimating the burden of multiple endemic diseases and health conditions using Bayes’ Theorem: A conditional probability model applied to UK dairy cattle

Phillip Rasmussen, University of Zurich, has recently had his comorbidity paper published online. You can find this here.  Phil is one ...

Veterinary Services in a changing world: climate change and other external factors

The full issue of the Scientific and Technical Review, volume 40 (2) on ‘Veterinary Services in a changing world: climate ...

OIE Panoroma 2021, Global Burden of Animal Diseases

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have recently published the 2021 edition Panorama which includes the Global Burden of Animal ...

Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture

Ben Huntington (University of Liverpool), Theresa Bernardo (Univeristy of Guelph), Mieghan Bruce (Murdoch University), Brecht Devleesschauwer (Sciensano), William Gilbert (University ...

VPHI Webinar

On April 6th 2021, Professor Jonathan Rushton presented in the Veterinary Public Health Institute (VPHi) Seminar Series on the Global ...

Launch of the multi-year, multi-partner Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme webinar

On Tuesday 19th January 2021 The University of Liverpool and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) hosted the official ...

Animal Health & Economics: Foot-and-mouth disease, African Swine Fever, Antimicrobial Resistance & highly pathogenic avian influenza

Jonathan Rushton gave a presentation on "The Global Burden of Animal Diseases" at The Southern African Society for Veterinary Epidemiology ...

Global Burden of Animal Diseases Consultation Meeting

The GBADs consultation meeting was held from the 1 st – 3 rd April convened by the Bill and Melinda ...

Initiation of Global Burden of Animal Diseases Programme

Professor Jonathan Rushton, Mieghan Bruce, Camille Bellet, Paul Torgerson, Alexandra Shaw, Tom Marsh, David Pigott, Matthew Stone, Julio Pinto, Shannon ...