A daunting but rewarding career as a government vet
Dr Christine Middlemiss, Chief Vet New South Wales It’s 7.55am on a Saturday and I’m at Sydney Domestic Airport on my way home. To Orange in New South Wales (NSW)....
Dr Christine Middlemiss, Chief Vet New South Wales It’s 7.55am on a Saturday and I’m at Sydney Domestic Airport on my way home. To Orange in New South Wales (NSW)....
Do you have the veterinary expertise that can help us innovate and develop new, cutting-edge technologies? Are you excited by the prospect of interesting and challenging scientific problems that, owing...
...on operational policy, both as Veterinary Director for APHA and in my role as Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer for the UK. APHA’s new outbreak model, put into action at the...
...is full of fresh challenges, meeting new people and gaining new perspectives. For me these are the spice of life. The APHA has also given me an environment in which...
...development for human TB so I knew a bit about what was involved, but the prospect of genuinely bringing a licensed vaccine to market was something new to me –...
...rabies into Britain in 1918. In the 1930s, TM Doyle, based at the laboratory, discovered a new disease in poultry which he named ‘Newcastle Disease’, after it having been detected...
...Health Agency and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), revised the Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock: Cattle and visited Holland to learn lessons from their H7N7 avian...
...Do you relish the opportunity to work with a wide and diverse network of stakeholders? A new opportunity at the Veterinary Medicines Directorate might be just right for you! Interested?...
Defra Chief Veterinary Officer - Christine Middlemiss This week, the Animal and Plant Health Agency published its latest risk assessment of bluetongue virus entering Great Britain during 2024. It confirmed...
...health! [In March 2024, APHA took a range of precautionary measures to check for HPAI H5N1 cases in UK cattle] This year we have remained vigilant to the threat from...