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Animal Science and Veterinary
Kenya
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
57
Citations
24354
World Ranking
400
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Kenya Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Kenya Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Kenya Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Kenya Leader Award

Overview

Delia Grace is affiliated with the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine. Within these domains, their work extensively covers subfields such as Food Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Delia Grace has contributed to multiple papers in high-impact venues, covering various aspects of health, climate change, food systems, and antimicrobial resistance. Some recent notable papers include:

  • "The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises" (2020) published in The Lancet
  • "The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future" (2021) published in The Lancet
  • "Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: a report from the 22nd annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium" (2021) published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance" (2020) published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • "Burden of foodborne disease in low-income and middle-income countries and opportunities for scaling food safety interventions" (2023) published in Food Security

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Delia Grace include:

  • Johanna F. Lindahl
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Florence Mutua
  • Théodore Knight-Jones
  • Silvia Alonso

Publication venues where Delia Grace has contributed extensively feature:

  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE
  • Scientific Reports
  • One Health

In addition to papers, Delia Grace has authored a book published by Frontiers Media titled Ensuring Animal Health and Other Services for Efficient and Inclusive Livestock Value Chains in LMICs (2022).

Best Publications

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

    Mario T. Herrero;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;An Maria Omer Notenbaert

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

    Bryony A. Jones;Delia Grace;Richard Kock;Silvia Alonso

  • Antibiotic resistance is the quintessential One Health issue.

    T. P. Robinson;D. P. Bu;J. Carrique-Mas;E. M. Fèvre

  • Invited review: Role of livestock in human nutrition and health for poverty reduction in developing countries.

    Thomas F. Randolph;E. Schelling;Delia Grace;Delia Grace;C. Nicholson

  • The roles of livestock in developing countries

    Mario T. Herrero;Delia Grace;Jemimah Njuki;Nancy L. Johnson

  • Economics of brucellosis impact and control in low-income countries.

    J.J. McDermott;Delia Grace;J. Zinsstag

  • The Lancet Countdown : tracking progress on health and climate change

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Yuqi Bai

  • Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

    Jimmy W. Smith;Keith R. Sones;Delia Grace;Susan MacMillan

  • The consequences of human actions on risks for infectious diseases: a review.

    Johanna F. Lindahl;Delia Grace

  • Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots

    D Grace;F Mutua;P Ochungo;R Kruska

  • The impacts of livestock diseases and their control on growth and development processes that are pro-poor.

    Brian D. Perry;Delia Grace

  • Livestock and Women’s Livelihoods

    Patricia M. Kristjanson;Ann Waters-Bayer;Nancy L. Johnson;A. Tipilda

  • Current drivers and future directions of global livestock disease dynamics

    Brian D. Perry;Delia Grace;Keith R. Sones

  • Effects of climate change on the occurrence and distribution of livestock diseases.

    Bernard K. Bett;P. Kiunga;John M. Gachohi;C. Sindato

  • Aflatoxin contamination of milk and dairy feeds in the Greater Addis Ababa milk shed, Ethiopia

    Dawit Gizachew;Barbara Szonyi;Azage Tegegne;Jean Hanson

  • Food safety and informal markets: Animal products in sub-Saharan Africa

    Kristina Roesel;Delia Grace

  • Risk factors, perceptions and practices associated with Taenia solium cysticercosis and its control in the smallholder pig production systems in Uganda: a cross-sectional survey

    Joseph M. Kungu;Joseph M. Kungu;Michel M. Dione;Francis Ejobi;Michael Ocaido

  • The multiple burdens of zoonotic disease and an Ecohealth approach to their assessment.

    Delia Grace;J. Gilbert;Thomas F. Randolph;Erastus K. Kang'ethe

  • International agricultural research to reduce food risks: case studies on aflatoxins

    Delia Grace;George Mahuku;Vivian Hoffmann;Christine Atherstone

  • Dairy science and health in the tropics: challenges and opportunities for the next decades.

    Lorenzo E. Hernández-Castellano;Jarlath E. Nally;Johanna Lindahl;Metha Wanapat

  • Review of evidence on antimicrobial resistance and animal agriculture in developing countries

    Delia Grace

  • A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance

    Florence Mutua;Garima Sharma;Garima Sharma;Delia Grace;Samiran Bandyopadhyay

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter-Henning Clausen
Peter-Henning Clausen Freie Universität Berlin
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Catherine E. Dewey
Catherine E. Dewey University of Guelph
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool
John J. McDermott
John J. McDermott International Food Policy Research Institute
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology
Eric M. Fèvre
Eric M. Fèvre University of Liverpool
Hilary Graham
Hilary Graham University of York
Timothy P. Robinson
Timothy P. Robinson Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London

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