Who we are

Prof Jeggo brings a wealth of experience in controlling and detecting exotic and emerging animal disease to this role. For the past 10 years he has been the Director of AAHL overseeing not only the operation of this very large containment facility but leading both the diagnostic service and research program. The research activities focus very much around One Health and include disease detection, characterization and mitigation. This program has a clear focus on those diseases that originate in wildlife but have potential for impact on the environment, livestock and humans. AAHL currently publishes over 200 peer reviewed papers in this area every year.

Prior to joining AAHL from 1996-2002, Prof Jeggo was the Head of the Animal Production and Health Science Section of the Joint Food and Agricultural Organisation/International Atomic Energy Agency (FAO/IAEA) Division of Agriculture, in Vienna, Austria. In that role, he managed a range of FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Programs involving more than 200 research contracts relating to animal production and health. These were operational in some 130 countries. For more than 15 years, Prof Jeggo oversaw the management of laboratory networks dealing with, rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in Africa, foot and mouth disease in Asia and brucellosis worldwide.

Prof Jeggo has visited more than 150 national veterinary laboratories in Africa, Asia and the Americas. He has held the positions of Director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories in the Yemen Arab Republic and Head of the Department of Immunology at the United Kingdom's Institute of Animal Health Pirbright Laboratories.

Prof Jeggo's is also a leading member of the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Global Research Alliance. During the past year he has chaired the Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference on One Health, held in Melbourne Australia and has played a key role in developing the One Health agenda both nationally and globally.