Theo Knight-Jones

Theo Knight-Jones

Principal Scientist - Team Leader Herd Health

Having started my career as a clinical vet in the UK and South Africa, I specialised in veterinary epidemiology and public health working in Europe, Africa and Central Asia. At ILRI I lead the Herd Health team and its research on livestock diseases and their control, as well as projects on food safety in African food markets. Focus areas include epidemiology, economics and policy for animal diseases, food safety and zoonoses.
I have extensive experience in veterinary vaccination programmes and the work of veterinary services, having been a former Chief Veterinary Officer, and through work with FAO and others. I have worked on a various sytems and animal health issues around the world, particulalry Transboundary Animal Diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza. I am the Africa editor for the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.

My Projects

Poultry

ACTIVE

Poultry losses and One Health (POLOH): Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Somali sheep and goats

ACTIVE

Evaluation of livestock emergencies: Vaccination and disease surveillance

Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development

Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development

Global burden of animal diseases

Global burden of animal diseases

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

Urban food markets in Africa: Incentivizing food safety using a pull-push approach

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

My Blog Posts

New project explores approaches to build capacity of next-generation One Health professionals

ILRI News

Creating greater consumer demand to improve food safety in Ethiopia

Understanding the burden of foodborne disease to ensure food safety in Ethiopia

My Publications

Rationalising development of classification systems describing livestock production systems for disease burden analysis within the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme

  • Yin Li
  • McIntyre, K. Marie
  • Rasmussen, Philip
  • Gilbert, William
  • Chaters, Gemma
  • Raymond, Kassy
  • Jemberu, Wudu T.
  • Larkins, Andrew
  • Patterson, Grace T.
  • Kwok, Stephen
  • Kappes, Alexander James
  • Mayberry Dianne
  • Schrobback, Peggy
  • Herrero Acosta, Mario
  • Stacey, Deborah A.
  • Huntington, Benjamin
  • Bruce, Mieghan
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.
  • Rushton, Jonathan

The public health importance and management of infectious poultry diseases in smallholder systems in Africa

  • Grace, Delia
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.
  • Melaku, A.
  • Alders, R.
  • Jemberu, Wudu T.

Current and potential use of animal disease data by stakeholders in the global south and north

  • Grace, Delia
  • Amenu, Kebede
  • Daborn, C.J.
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.
  • Huntington, B.
  • Young, S.
  • Poole, Elizabeth J.
  • Rushton, J.

Participatory mapping of livestock routes and resources in southern woredas of Oromia and Somali regions, southern Ethiopia

  • Berhanu, Dagim
  • Gizaw, Solomon
  • Getahun, Yasin
  • Wieland, Barbara
  • Alemu, S.
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.

Prevalence of Salmonella in fresh produce tomatoes sold in open market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  • Bognini, H.
  • Kagambèga, A.
  • Tiendrebeogo, W.P.B.
  • Sawadogo, A.
  • Barro, N.
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.
  • Dione, Michel M.

Potential food safety risks in tomato value chains in urban settings of Eastern Ethiopia: a qualitative investigation

  • Amenu, Kebede
  • Megersa, B.
  • Jaleta, M.B.
  • Dinede, Getachew
  • Worku, H.
  • Kasim, K.
  • Taha, M.
  • Ibrahim, A.M.
  • Kedir, J.
  • Mego, Lina
  • Roesel, Kristina
  • Roothaert, R.
  • Srinivasan, R.
  • Grace, Delia
  • Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D.