Nick Taylor

Veterinarian and veterinary epidemiologist  

SPECIALISATION:

Mr Taylor is a PAN Livestock Services consultant and a member of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit  (VEERU) of The University of Reading. He is a veterinarian with broad experience of veterinary epidemiology and livestock production, particularly  in Turkey, Oman, Bangladesh, Tanzania and the UK. He co-ordinates VEERU’s courses in Veterinary Epidemiology and lectures in veterinary epidemiology and simulation modelling.

Mr Taylor recently completed four years working within the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture developing an epidemiology and decision support unit. This unit is providing essential information to assist the process of restructuring in the state veterinary service by identifying which disease control activities are suitable for privatisation and which should remain as functions of the government service.

During his time in Turkey Mr Taylor was involved in a regional epidemiology conference for state veterinarians from CIS and Middle East countries, including Turkmenistan.

Recently, Mr Taylor has played an important role as an epidemiologist in the control of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in UK.

Mr Taylor has extensive expertise in the combination of veterinary epidemiology and economics. He has considerable skills in the development of information systems that collect and analyse data from a range of livestock systems in various countries.