Jackie Benschop

Jackie Benschop is a New Zealand Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Massey University, specialising in the animal–human–environment interface, particularly for Leptospira, Campylobacter and Salmonella. She is a member of the World Health Organisation's Steering Committee for the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network, and a co-founder of the African Leptospirosis Network.

Academic career

Benschop completed a PhD titled 'Epidemiological investigations of surveillance strategies of zoonotic Salmonella' at Massey University in 2009. Benschop then joined the Massey faculty, where she is co-director of the Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory. She was promoted to full professor from 1 January 2021. She has worked on leptospirosis in work settings, including abattoirs and farms, and is a member of the World Health Organisation's Steering Committee for the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network.

In 2016, Benschop received a C. Alma Baker Trust Fellowship to travel to the UK, where she was hosted by Profesor Ruth Zadoks and Drs Kathryn Allan and Jo Halliday at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

Selected works