One Welfare Silkworm Advisory Board
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Rebeca García Pinillos, One Welfare CIC
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Laura Boyle, Teagasc
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Rebeca García Pinillos qualified as a vet at the University of Zaragoza, Spain and completed a PhD at the University of Reading, England. Rebeca is a diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine and a certified specialist by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) in animal welfare, ethics and law. She has worked in general practice and veterinary government work since 2001, joining Defra as Veterinary Adviser in 2008. Rebeca has also volunteered with exotic animals and is an internationally recognised animal welfare lecturer and speaker on animal welfare, teaching and speaking across Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Rebeca is a Past-President of the Association of Government Vets and founder of the non-profit social enterprise One Welfare Community Interest Company, which started as a voluntary project, launching a global consultation to define and create a One Welfare framework as a complement to One Health and creating social media platforms and a web presence to help expand and disseminate the concept and related work. Initiatives launched to date supporting these objectives are the publication of the One Welfare Framework book and the projects One Welfare World and One Welfare Phoenix.
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Laura Boyle qualified as an Animal Scientist from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1994 and completed a Masters and PhD in sow behaviour and welfare under a Teagasc Walsh Scholarship with UCD. Laura is an associate member of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine (sub-speciality Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law) and Chairs the Animal Behaviour Working Group of the European Federation of Animal Science. She is a hearing expert for the Animal Health and Welfare Farm to Fork Working Group with the European Food Safety Authority. In Ireland, Laura sits on the National Committee on Scientific Animal Protection and on the Scientific Advisory Committee on Animal Health and Welfare. Laura has worked as a farm animal welfare scientist for 20 years with Teagasc the Irish National Agriculture and Food Development Authority. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on pig and dairy cow welfare and has almost 300 scientific abstracts in national and international conference proceedings. Laura’s research has elucidated links between animal health, animal welfare and antibiotic use and she has been active in disseminating the concept that animal welfare can act as ‘preventative medicine’ under the One Health concept. In recent years, she adopted the One Welfare concept to extend this message to the contribution that animal welfare can make to sustainability at numerous scientific, technical and community outreach events in Ireland and abroad. This culminated in the publication of scientific paper on the effects of Covid-19 on livestock production from a One Welfare perspective in 2020. Laura also contributed to the development of a framework for critical evaluation of private animal health and welfare standards in quality assurance programmes. In 2019 Laura was the recipient of the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) and Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) award for Innovative Developments in Animal Welfare.
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Julia Clark, MSc IAWEL, MRCVS
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Bas Rodenburg, Utrecht University
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Julia is a veterinarian with a keen interest in conservation. She currently works as Advisor in endemic and zoonotic animal diseases and also as a Consultant for a European organization, contributing to restoring ecological processes to enhance natural habitats and promote mitigation of our biodiversity and climate change emergencies. In the past, Julia has also volunteered for an NGO in the conservation of a keystone species in Spain, the Iberian wolf.
Previous professional experience includes inspection of slaughterhouses as an Official Veterinarian as well as a Veterinary Inspector later on, carrying out official controls on farm for both animal health and animal welfare. In this latter role Julia specialized on pig welfare and contributed to policy work during study missions to EU member states, as part of the EU Commission’s initiative to improve the implementation of the EU Pig Welfare Directive. Julia has an international background, having graduated as a Vet in Spain, continuing her postgraduate education in Norway and, later on, in England and Scotland where she expanded her knowledge in animal behaviour and welfare. Her MSc thesis focused on the enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act in England in cases of farm animal welfare compromise linked to farmer mental and physical health issues. Her work experience and postgraduate studies firmly grounded her view of the deep connections between animal welfare, human welfare, ethics and nature conservation, the concept of One Welfare, which she continues to promote. |
Bas Rodenburg is Professor in Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He is also Special Professor in Animal Welfare at Wageningen University. He coordinates research and education in animal welfare. The research of Bas Rodenburg aims at improving the methodology for assessment of animal welfare. This also focuses on the use of sensors to monitor behaviour and welfare of individual animals housed in social groups. In his own work, Rodenburg advertises the OneWelfare approach in the context of farm animal production to ensure that animal welfare receives appropriate attention in the development of sustainable animal production systems. Bas Rodenburg is Senior Vice President of the International Society for Applied Ethology and involved in European projects such as FreeBirds, ChickenStress en PPILOW. PPILOW focuses on measuring and improving welfare of pigs and poultry in organic and low input systems. This project also uses the OneWelfare framework as the basis for the sustainability analysis within the project. Rodenburg is a member of the editorial boards of Frontiers in Veterinary Science and Animal Welfare.
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Heleen van de Weerd, Cerebrus Associates
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Vacancy
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Heleen van de Weerd is Director of Cerebrus Associates and an internationally recognised farm animal welfare expert with an extensive global network of animal welfare professionals. She is a biologist and has been active in the field of applied animal behaviour and welfare research for more than 30 years. Heleen adds value to corporate, NGO and government clients by applying animal-welfare knowledge to achieve improvements in animals’ lives. She engages key influencers in both the charitable, academic and private sectors and supports policy development in the UK and the EU (strategy evaluation, assessing best farming practices for animal welfare).
Heleen has broad knowledge of the global level of animal welfare standards through her consultancy work (e.g. technical pig welfare expert for World Animal Protection in China, the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare, animal welfare specialist for the Global Coalition for Animal Welfare) . She also works with RSPCA Assured on their Standard setting and chairs the groups on Turkeys and Laying hens & Pullets. Heleen’s main driver, both in work and life is to make a difference to the live of animals. The One Welfare Silkworm project combines that with improvements to people and planet. |
Team member with expertise in environmental standards.
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Vacancy
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Team member with expertise in labour standards.
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Team member with expertise in environmental standards.
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Advisory Board Meetings Minutes