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Dr Marie McIntyre

NU Partnership Academic Track (NUPAcT)/FSA Fellow in Translational Food Safety, Modelling, Evidence and Policy (MEP) group, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Background

With a background in Environmental Science (University of East Anglia) and PhD in epidemiology (Stirling University), I was a core-funded epidemiologist working on scrapie and atypical scrapie from 2004-2008. I then moved to Public Health England to work as Advanced Healthcare Scientist, followed by undertaking post-doctoral and Research Co-investigator roles at the University of Liverpool. I moved to Newcastle University in 2022. 

I am a retired President (2019-2021), Committee Member, JVP and SVP (2013-2022) of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.

Research

My research focuses on identifying the drivers of and control measures for infectious diseases impacting human and veterinary public health. I am particularly interested in using a One Health ethos in research examining food safety and security issues.

I previously led development of a horizon-scanning systematic review examining the sensitivity to climate of high impact human and domestic animal pathogens, identifying food-, soil-, water- and vector-borne transmission routes as particularly associated with climate. I also led trial implementation of modern molecular surveillance methods for gastrointestinal disease within the UK public health system as part of the ‘Integrate’ (Fully integrated, real-time detection, diagnosis and control of community diarrhoeal disease clusters and outbreaks) project. Most recently, I was a Senior Analyst in the Directorate of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme, leading standardisation of literature searching methodologies and developing architecture for a ‘living’ review system.

I am the NUPAcT Fellow in Translational Food Safety at Newcastle University in partnership with the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Within my role, I aim to provide policy-appropriate ‘living’ evidence collation and synthesis, and risk assessment tools and mechanisms to aid the FSA’s role in ensuring food for consumption is safe from foodborne disease and food supplies are sustainable.

I have recently recorded several podcasts describing my fellowship (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jn1lWaPPmbxi8TdB6IgRL?si=iiX5W2c2SuW17-16Mnlwfg ) and our approach (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zUpi4anOVtwgUCM1AL6Tg?si=4Mdr36YaTxex_je1CEUvwA ).


 

Teaching

I have taught epidemiology and statistics in a number of institutions including at the Pirbright Laboratory, Public Health England, the University of Liverpool, the International Livestock Research Unit and in Indonesia for the Orang-utan Veterinary Advisory Group. I was curriculum lead on the 'HORN' (One Health regional network for the Horn of Africa) project, including leading development of two tiers of active learning, and developing and leading the inaugural Masterclass and within this a statistics workshop, in the Horn of Africa. 

I am a Fellow (FHEA) of the Higher Education Academy - Advance HE). 


Publications