A list of the scientists who will make up the review panel charged with carrying out a scientific review of evidence for the eradication of bovine TB in Wales has been announced today. image expired

Wales' chief scientific advisor, Professor John Harries announced that Professor Chris Gaskell, principal of the Royal Agricultural College, would chair the panel on 19th July. Today Professor Gaskell, announced the names of the other scientists who will be joining him on the panel.

He said, “I am very pleased with the makeup of the panel. It brings together a range of experience and perspectives which will allow us to make a full and proper assessment of the evidence base that informed the programme for the eradication of bovine TB.

“I very much look forward to working with the panel in taking forward this important work on what is undoubtedly a difficult area.”

The other members of the panel, which will look at evidence supplied by a number of experts and compile a report for Environment Minister John Griffiths later this year, are as follows:

• Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, chair of Public Health Wales and director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University.
• Professor Malcolm Bennett, co-director of the UK National Centre for Zoonosis Research and Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Liverpool.
• Professor Bridget Emmett, deputy director of the Biogeochemistry Programme, Section Head and Head of Site at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor.
• Professor Charles Godfray, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Hope Professor at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
• Professor Dirk Pfeiffer, a professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, and head of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the Royal Veterinary College (University of London).