Carrie Batten

Dr Carrie Batten is head of the Non-Vesicular Reference Laboratories at the Pirbright Institute. She is also designated as the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) expert for bluetongue virus and African horse sickness virus. She leads the UK National Reference Laboratories for bluetongue, African horse sickness, African swine fever, morbilliviruses and capripoxviruses, working closely with the other WOAH disease-specific experts at Pirbright. She has over 15 years of experience in viral diagnostics, surveillance and disease control and played an integral role during the UK BTV-8 outbreak in 2007.