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Dr

Ariel Anna Brunn

Research Fellow in Planetary Health

Population Health

Orcid identifier0000-0003-2084-6735
  • Research Fellow in Planetary Health
    Population Health

BIO

I am a veterinarian and registered RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Public Health. My interests encompass food safety, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness and environmental epidemiology. In my research I’ve used a systems approach to explore climate determinants of disease transmission from livestock to people through shared watersheds, dissemination of AMR into the agricultural environment, and conducted consultancies on national and regional preparedness capacities for (emerging) infectious disease spillover.

I recently led a climate change and health policy project in Kenya using evidence synthesis and modelling approaches to provide decision-support to policymakers, was a co-investigator on a climate change and pandemic preparedness project in SSA funded by IDRC, and currently conduct health impacts modelling applied to synthetic populations.

I previously worked in veterinary practice and shelter medicine in Canada and the UK. Prior to joining LSHTM, I led veterinary capacity building programs to support humane free-roaming dog population control and canine rabies prevention in Ukraine and the Balkans. I have appointments to committees within the RCVS and British Veterinary Association and am affiliated with the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Consultant
    International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya7 Jul 2021 - 30 Sep 2021
  • Consultant
    World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Communicable Diseases, Environment and Health, Copenhagen, Denmark24 Feb 2025 - 31 Mar 2025

DEGREES

  • DVM
    Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Canada
  • MSc
    University of Guelph, Canada
  • BSc
    University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
    American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine31 Jul 2023 - present
    Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Board certification for veterinarians working in public health, environmental health and epidemiology.

REGIONS & COUNTRIES

  • Kenya
  • Gambia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

TOPICS & DISCIPLINES