Rate My Professor Barbara Haesler

Professor Barbara Haesler is Professor in Agrihealth in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. She graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Bern in 2002 and completed her doctoral thesis on the economic and epidemiological aspects of bovine neosporosis in Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office from 2003 to 2005, receiving the Faculty Award for the best veterinary medicine dissertation and an award from the Association of Bernese Female Academics. From 2006 to 2007, she worked as a border veterinary inspector at the Basel border inspection post, overseeing imports of live animals, animal products, and by-products. In April 2007, she joined the Royal Veterinary College as a research assistant in Veterinary Public Health and pursued a PhD on the economics of animal health surveillance from 2008 to 2011, earning the award for the best PhD at the RVC. During this time, she obtained a Certificate of Higher Education in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. She advanced through positions as Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Professor in Agrihealth, while also affiliated with the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health from 2012 to 2020. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Veterinary Education from the RVC and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015.

Haesler's research applies One Health and interdisciplinary systems approaches to livestock and fish food systems, integrating economic, social, and technical aspects to promote animal and human wellbeing, food safety, nutrition security, and environmental sustainability. Her key areas include economics of animal health and antimicrobial use/resistance surveillance, food systems analysis for balanced outcomes, economic evaluation of disease management for production and zoonotic diseases, and One Health evaluation frameworks. She contributes to networks such as the Network for Ecohealth and One Health, UK Food Systems Centre for Doctoral Training, Lancet One Health Commission, and Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems consortium, alongside consultancy for NGOs, international organizations, and public institutions, advisory committees, and editorial roles. Selected publications encompass 'The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems' (The Lancet, 2025), 'A bibliometric analysis of One Health research, guided by the Joint Plan of Action, 2010–2024' (CABI One Health, 2025), 'Climate change and campylobacteriosis from chicken meat: The changing risk factors and their importance' (Food Control, 2025), and 'Current evidence of the economic value of One Health initiatives: A systematic literature review' (One Health, 2024).