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| Qualifications |
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MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), D.Phil. |
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| Bio |
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| Dr Smith has been Chief of the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health in the School of Veterinary Medicine since 1995. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Penn’s School of Medicine and is an Associate Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics as well as being an affiliated faculty member of Penn’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response. Originally from Britain, where he was awarded degrees in Zoology, Education, and Ecology from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and York, Dr Smith has worked in the United States since 1986. In 1992 he served on an FAO/WHO Expert Committee on the implementation of farm models in the developing world (Nairobi, Kenya); he served on the Pennsylvania Food Quality Assurance Committee recently between 1995-1996 and in 1999 he was a member of a European Union Expert Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy risk (Brussels). Dr Smith has served on the editorial boards of Parasitology Today, The International Journal of Parasitology, The Veterinary Quarterly, and has recently taken up a position on the new monthly journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. His research deals with the epidemiology and population dynamics of infections disease in humans and wild and domestic animal species. He has extensive experience of mathematical modeling in the context of infectious and parasitic disease control strategies (included the evolution of drug resistance) and has published case-control studies on a range of infectious diseases of animals and humans. |
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| Selected Publications |
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| Drobatz K. J. & Smith G. (2003) Case control study of bitewounds inflicted on workers in a veterinary teaching hospital. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (in press)
Smith G, Wileyto E.P., Cherry B. R., Hopkins R.B. & Maher J. P. (2001) Risk Factors for Lyme Disease in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Public Health Reports, 116: Supplement 1, 146-156. Smith G., Bebak J. and McAllister P. (2000) Experimental infectious pancreatic necrosis infections: propagative or point-source epidemic? Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 47:221-241 Smith G., Grenfell B. T., Isham V. & Cornell S. (1999) Anthelmintic resistance revisited: under-dosing, chemoprophylactic strategies, and mating probabilities. International Journal for Parasitology 29: 77-91. |
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