Dr Georgina Limon-Vega

Georgina's research interests focus on understanding the connections between drivers of disease transmission, spread, and emergence, and their impact on people’s livelihoods and health.

Georgina studied Veterinary Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology from the Royal Veterinary college (RVC) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from the Royal veterinary College. Georgina joined The Pirbright Institute as a post-doctoral researcher, then as senior scientist with an honorary Fellowship at the RVC. She is now group leader in Applied Epidemiology.

Georgina regularly provides advice to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Defra on topics related to risk of incursion, spread and control of different transboundary animal diseases.