Dr Ariel Anna Brunn
Research Fellow in Planetary Health
United Kingdom
I am a board-certified veterinarian in preventive medicine & public health. My interests encompass food safety, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness and environmental epidemiology. In my research I鈥檝e used a systems approach to explore climate determinants of disease transmission from livestock to people through shared watersheds, dissemination of AMR in human pathogens into the agricultural environment, and national preparedness capacities for emerging infectious disease spillover from wildlife/informal markets.
I recently led a climate change and health policy project in Kenya using evidence synthesis and modelling approaches to provide decision-support to policymakers, am a co-investigator on a climate change and pandemic preparedness project in SSA, funded by IDRC, and provide research support to establish a Lancet Countdown Africa Regional Centre.
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 sit on the Policy Committee of the British Veterinary Association and am affiliated with the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.
I recently led a climate change and health policy project in Kenya using evidence synthesis and modelling approaches to provide decision-support to policymakers, am a co-investigator on a climate change and pandemic preparedness project in SSA, funded by IDRC, and provide research support to establish a Lancet Countdown Africa Regional Centre.
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 sit on the Policy Committee of the British Veterinary Association and am affiliated with the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
Tutor on the DL Parasitology Course (IDM203) and the DL Basic Epidemiology Course (PHM101).
MSc Student Research Supervisor.
MSc Student Research Supervisor.
Research
Research Area
Climate change
Health policy
Drug resistance
Environmental Health
Impact evaluation
Epidemiology
Country
Kenya
Gambia
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2024
medRxiv
2024
OSF Registries
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2022
Veterinary Evidence
2022
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
2022
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems