Postgraduate research students

Kim Hamer

kim.hamer@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6142-5366

Research title: Using digital tools to improve decision making around livestock disease in low resource settings

Research summary

Research Interests

Clinical decision making tool for livestock health officers in sub-Saharan Africa, for sheep and goats, on a mobile app. 

Veterinary provision in parts of sub-Saharan Africa is inadequate, with some animal health workers covering large geographical areas without veterinary support. Our aim is to provide a tool that will aid with diagnostic and treatment decision-making, to improve animal health and welfare, antimicrobial stewardship and the livelihoods of the livestock keepers.

Other areas of research include:

- Veterinary prescribing of antibiotics to sheep keepers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

- Validation of Brix refractometry for ewe colostrum quality assessment

- Epidemiology of sheep nematodes

 

Publications

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2024

Crawford, P. E., Hamer, K., Lovatt, F., Behnke, M. C. and Robinson, P. A. (2024) Antibiotic use in the Northern Irish sheep flock: What lessons can be learnt from medicine records and farmer attitudes to improve stewardship of these essential medicines? Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 226, 106169. (doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106169) (PMID:38493571)

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Articles

Crawford, P. E., Hamer, K., Lovatt, F., Behnke, M. C. and Robinson, P. A. (2024) Antibiotic use in the Northern Irish sheep flock: What lessons can be learnt from medicine records and farmer attitudes to improve stewardship of these essential medicines? Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 226, 106169. (doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106169) (PMID:38493571)

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Supervisors

External supervisors

Professor Crawford Revie

Computer and Information Sciences

University of Strathclyde

crawford.revie@strath.ac.uk

Grants

Funding

NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Programme

Conferences

Conferences

International Sheep Veterinary Conference, Seville, March 2023

Oral presentations

Survey of veterinary practices on antibiotic prescribing and administration in sheep flocks in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Digital Brix refractometry thresholds for estimating ewe colostrum and lamb serum IgG adequacy in Scottish lowland sheep flocks

Teaching

Veterinary Lecturing

Academic Clinician at the School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine, within the Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health and Food Safety

Lecturing veterinary students in sheep health, including:

- Adult sheep lameness

- Nematodes of sheep

- Ewe fertility

- Ewe obstetrics and perinatal conditions

- Approach to group lamb health

- Ill thrift in lambs

 

Final year vet student small group teaching:

- Ruminant therapeutics

- Sheep parasitology (selective students)

- Ill thrift in adult sheep

Additional information

Additional Information

European specialist in sheep and goat medicine, as diplomat of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management

Junior Vice President of the Sheep Veterinary Society 

Member of the Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group

Animal Health Stakeholder for the Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance (SONAAR) team