Delia Grace Randolph
Professor of Food Safety Systems, University of Greenwich
Biography
Professor Delia Grace Randolph originally trained as a veterinarian and worked for five years in mainly large animal practice in Lancashire, UK. After that she worked as a volunteer for three years in Bangladesh supporting livestock development. Subsequently she undertook a MSc at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and then a PhD at the Free University Berlin, in Germany. Her post-doctoral position was with Cornell University and ILRI, focusing on food safety. Her MSc and PhD were both on vector-borne animal diseases in Africa: namely heartwater and trypanosomiasis.
Delia joined the University of Greenwich in May 2020 as Professor of Food Safety Systems at the Natural Resources Institute. She is also Joint Appointed Scientist, Animal and Human Health Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Previously, Professor Randolph worked with the World Animal Health Organisation, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank and other international, regional and national organisations. She has received various awards including the Grieg medal and the Trevor Blackburn award and has published high impact factor journals such as the Lancet and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Talk Overview
Professor Randolph has extensive epidemiological expertise at the livestock-human interface and will share her views on the threats from emerging Zoonoses on which she has worked (highly pathogenic avian influenza, Rift Valley fever and more recently COVID-19) for sustainable agriculture, specifically from a developing countries perspective.