One Welfare Silkworm Advisory Board
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Rebeca García Pinillos, One Welfare CIC
(Chair and project founder) 
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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Jeremy Marchant-Forde, USDA
Dr. Jeremy Marchant-Forde is a Research Animal Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, based in West Lafayette, Indiana at the Livestock Behavior Research Unit. Dr. Marchant-Forde has researched welfare and behavior of pigs and dairy cattle since 1990, starting with his PhD on gestating sow welfare at the University of Cambridge. He has worked mainly in the United Kingdom (11 years) and the United States (19 years), with research stays in Denmark and Canada. His major research interests include environmental enrichment, social and maternal behavior, the manipulation of behavior by diet and factors influencing neonatal mortality. He also has a major interest in the development of novel indicators of animal welfare including heart rate variability and tear staining, and actively engages in inter-disciplinary studies allied to the concepts of One Welfare and One Health. He is the author/editor of 4 books and over 240 refereed articles and abstracts on farm animal welfare and his research has attracted nearly $10 million of grant funding. He is Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Veterinary Science and is a Past President of the International Society for Applied Ethology.
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Bas Rodenburg, Utrecht University
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
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. |
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Joe Bailey, RSPCA Assured
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Julia Clark, MSc IAWEL, MRCVS
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My passion for welfare and well being commenced in my childhood on the family dairy farm, appreciating the triumphs, and acknowledging the traumas of livestock farming on both the animals and those responsible for them. I realised that my driving purpose was to improve the lives of all animals, to improve the quality of life and environment for farm animals and to impart knowledge, empathy and compassion to those who care for them. My career began with the RSPCA as an Inspector in 1994, and since then I have worked as a Trading Standards Animal Health and Welfare Inspector, a Livestock Technical Manager for NSF ,a Farming Community Network volunteer and now ambassador. Having returned to the RSPCA family in 2015 as Head of farming for RSPCA Assured I feel I can really start to make that difference, not only in the UK but globally. I received a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 2012, looking at the correlation between welfare and wellbeing, and was awarded the CharityComms inspiring communicator award in 2017. I am dedicated to exploring the links between animal , human and environmental neglect and abuse,and will stop at nothing to spread the word, and gain support for initiatives that improve Animal Welfare and Human Well-being. I am one of the founding members of GAWA (Global Animal Welfare Assurance) an alliance of experienced and trusted higher farmed animal welfare assurance schemes dedicated to continuous improvement in welfare standards and who share the vision of increasing the production and consumption of higher animal welfare products.
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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. |
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Laura Boyle, Teagasc
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Vacancy
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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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Team member with expertise in labour standards.
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Advisory Board Meetings Minutes