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Professor Mark Eisler
Chair in Global Farm Animal Health
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Professor Mark Eisler
BA, VetMB, MSc, PhD, MRCVS, DipEVPC
Chair in Global Farm Animal Health
Area of research
Global Farm Animal Health
Langford House,
Langford,
Bristol
BS40 5DU
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+44 (0) 117 928 9233
mark.eisler@bristol.ac.uk
Summary
Mark's areas of expertise include preventive veterinary medicine, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases of ruminant livestock, and veterinary public health, both in the UK and internationally, focussing particularly but not exclusively on vector-borne and parasitic disease. He has conducted research in the field of international animal health, including zoonotic diseases, and held a number of large collaborative grant awards. His main research interests are diagnosis, epidemiology and control of diseases of farmed livestock of economic importance. Three major research themes have included control of neglected zoonotic diseases, integrated control of vector-borne diseases and trypanocidal drug resistance. Earlier research focused on the epidemiology and control of major vector-borne protozoan diseases of livestock, including tropical parasites such as trypanosomiasis and tick-borne diseases.
Biography
Mark Eisler BA, Vet MB, MSc, PhD, MRCVS, DipEVPC, Chair in Global Farm Animal Health at the University of Bristol, qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the University of Cambridge in 1984, obtained an MSc in Tropical Veterinary Science at the Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM) in 1988, and a PhD on the subject of chemoprophylactic control of African bovine trypanosomiasis at the University of Glasgow in 1994. He has been a foundation diplomate of the European Veterinary Parasitology College since its inception in 2003.
Mark has worked in general veterinary practice, the state veterinary service, universities, research institutes and international agencies, and has over twenty years experience working in veterinary medicine in the UK and in international contexts, including sub-Saharan Africa. From 1994-2001 he was a Visiting Epidemiologist based at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi from where he conducted collaborative research with numerous universities and research institutes in countries across all regions of Africa.
Teaching
Mark teaches veterinary medicine at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including supervision of numerous PhD students. Previously he led the development of the University of Edinburgh’s highly successful online distance learning Masters programme in International Animal Health and he is currently contributing to the development of Masters programmes in Bristol.
Keywords
- Food Security
- One Health
- Epidemiology
- Control
- Infectious Diseases
- Farm Animals
- International Animal Health
- Tropical
- Veterinary Medicine
- Zoonotic Diseases
- Veterinary Parasitology
Skills
- African Trypanosomiasis
- Tick-Borne Diseases
- Helminthiases
- Bovine Respiratory Disease
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Research areas
Research: Infection and Immunity
Selected publications
- Machila, N, Fèvre, E, Maudlin, I & Eisler, M 2008, ‘Farmer estimation of live bodyweight of cattle: Implications for veterinary drug dosing in East Africa’. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, vol 87(3-4)., pp. 394 - 403
- Magona, J, Walubengo, J, Olaho-Mukani, W, Jonsson, N, Welburn, S & Eisler, M 2008, ‘Clinical features associated with seroconversion to Anaplasma marginale, Babesia bigemina and Theileria parva infections in African cattle under natural tick challenge’. Veterinary Parasitology, vol 155(3-4)., pp. 273 - 280
- Eisler, M, Magona, J, Jonsson, N & Revie, C 2007, ‘A low cost decision support tool for the diagnosis of endemic bovine infectious diseases in the mixed crop-livestock production system of sub-Saharan Africa’. Epidemiology and Infection, vol 135(1)., pp. 67 - 75
- Machila, N, Emonger, R, Shaw, A, Welburn, S, McDermot, J, Maudlin, I & Eisler, M 2007, ‘A community education intervention to improve bovine trypanosomiasis knowledge and appropriate use of trypanocidal drugs on smallholder farms in Kenya’. Agricultural Systems, vol 94(2)., pp. 261 - 272
- Holmes, P, Eisler, M & Geerts, S 2004, ‘Current chemotherapy of Animal Trypanosomiasis’. in: I Maudlin, PH Holmes, MA Miles (eds) The Trypanosomiases. CABI, pp. 431 - 444
Recent publications
- Steele, M, Crabb, N, Moore, L, Reyher, KK, Baillie, S & Eisler, MC 2013, ‘Online Tools for Teaching Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine’. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.
- Valergakis, GE, Russell, C, Grogono-Thomas, R, Bradley, AJ & Eisler, MC 2012, ‘Coxiella burnetii in bulk tank milk of dairy cattle in south-west England’. Veterinary Record, In Practice, vol 171., pp. -
- Eisler, MC, Magona, JW & Revie, CW 2012, ‘Diagnosis of Cattle Diseases Endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa: Evaluating a Low Cost Decision Support Tool in Use by Veterinary Personnel’. Plos one, vol 7., pp. -
- Makita, K, Fevre, E, Waiswa, C, Kaboyo, W, Eisler, M & Welburn, S 2011, ‘Spatial epidemiology of hospital-diagnosed brucellosis in Kampala, Uganda’. International Journal of Health Geographics, vol 10., pp. Article - 52
- Magona, J, Walubengo, J, Olaho-Mukani, W, Jonsson, N, Welburn, S & Eisler, M 2011, ‘Spatial variation of tick abundance and seroconversion rates of indigenous cattle to Anaplasma marginale, Babesia bigemina and Theileria parva infections in Uganda’. Experimental and Applied Acarology, vol 55., pp. 203 - 213
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Courses
Professor Eisler currently teaches 6 courses:
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