Laura Green

Laura Elizabeth Green OBE FRSB is a British epidemiologist and academic who is Pro-vice-chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.^[1][2] She serves on the council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Green studied veterinary medicine at the University of Bristol. She worked briefly as a veterinarian, before starting a Master's degree in epidemiology. She earned her master's degree at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She returned to the University of Bristol for her doctorate, where she studied the diseases of lambs in early lambing flocks.^[3]

Green joined the University of Warwick in 1999, where she was made a Chair in 2005.^[4] Her research considers the endemic diseases of farmed livestock.^[5][6] She has investigated infectious diseases in cattle including Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis), sheep (caseous lymphadenitis) and pigs (postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome).^[7][8] Green studied foot rot in sheep and used her findings to support farmers.^[9] She demonstrated that quick treatment with antibiotics can reduce lameness in sheep.^[4][10] Specifically, a single injection of antibiotics helped 95% of sheep.^[11][12] Her findings reduced the prevalence of foot rot by 50%, which is estimated to save the foot sheep industry £2 million a year.^[13] She has also investigated how farmers attitudes and personalities impacted their management of livestock.^[14][15] In 2014 Green was appointed Head of the School of Life Sciences. She was made Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Warwick in 2017.^[16]

Green joined the University of Birmingham as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences in 2018.^[16] She serves on the advisory board of the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme.^[17]

• 2013 Royal Agricultural Society of England medal^[18]
• 2013 Elected to the council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)^[19]
• 2017 Appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours^[20]
• 2019 Honorary Life Member of the Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine^[13]

• Green, L.E.; Hedges, V.J.; Schukken, Y.H.; Blowey, R.W.; Packington, A.J. (2002). "The Impact of Clinical Lameness on the Milk Yield of Dairy Cows". Journal of Dairy Science. 85 (9): 2250–2256. doi:10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(02)74304-x. ISSN 0022-0302. PMID 12362457.
• Whay, H. R.; Main, D. C. J.; Green, L. E.; Webster, A. J. F. (16 August 2003). "Assessment of the welfare of dairy caftle using animal-based measurements: direct observations and investigation of farm records". Veterinary Record. 153 (7): 197–202. doi:10.1136/vr.153.7.197. ISSN 0042-4900. PMID 12956296. S2CID 40615566.*"The Microbial Habitat: An Ecological Perspective". Microbial Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 103–130 26 September 2011. doi:10.1002/9781118015841.ch4. ISBN 978-1-118-01584-1.