
Professor Kristen Reyher
BSc(Florida), DVM(Cornell), PhD(UPEI), MRCVS
Expertise
Kristen leads an interdisciplinary research group (AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance and also works on veterinary-client communication as well as evidence-based veterinary medicine.
Current positions
- Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population HealthBristol Veterinary School
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Biography
Kristen has worked in livestock veterinary practice in three countries and holds a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in New York state as well as a PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Kristen currently leads an interdisciplinary research group (the AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance with more than £10 million of funding from public sources as well as charities and industry. She also directed the first studies applying a counselling style called Motivational Interviewing to veterinarian-client communication. Kristen was the principal investigator for the Global Resource for Online Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM) Learning project which produced the widely used EBVM eLearning site EBVMLearning.org. Her past accomplishments include successfully organising the data collection platform for Canada’s largest livestock research effort through the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network. She is interested in making research more accessible (and accomplish-able) to veterinary practitioners worldwide.
Research interests
Kristen Reyher is Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population Health at the Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol. She has worked in livestock practice in three countries, and holds a doctorate of veterinary medicine from Cornell University as well as a PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Kristen currently leads an interdisciplinary research group (the AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance with more than £10 million of funding from public sources as well as charities and industry. She also directed the first studies applying a counselling style called Motivational Interviewing to veterinarian-client communication. Kristen was the principal investigator for the Global Resource for Online Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Learning project which produced the widely used EBVM eLearning site ebvmlearning.org, and is involved in EBVM on many levels. Her past accomplishments include successfully organising the data collection platform for Canada’s largest livestock research effort through the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network and she is interested in making research more accessible (and accomplish-able) to veterinary practitioners worldwide.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
- IIPF2024-10 - BBSRC International Institutional Award 2024 - FARMS-SAFE support- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Veterinary School- Dates- 01/04/2024 to 29/06/2024 
- AI to monitor changes in social behaviour for the early detection of disease in dairy cattle- Principal Investigator- Role- Co-Investigator - Managing organisational unitBristol Veterinary School- Dates- 01/07/2023 to 30/06/2026 
- Canada_IPAP - Impacts of antibiotic usage reduction in farmed animals- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Veterinary School- Dates- 08/03/2023 to 07/01/2025 
- FARMS-SAFE ODA EOI (GCRFN11)- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Veterinary School- Dates- 01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023 
- Future-proofing Antibacterial resistance Risk Management Surveillance and Stewardship in the Argentinian Farming Environment ( farm safe )- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Veterinary School- Dates- 01/04/2021 to 30/09/2021 
Thesis supervisions
- Understanding Prescription Veterinary Medicine Use on UK Dairy Farms- Supervisors
- Barriers to population level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science- Supervisors
- Resistance to critically important antibiotics beyond humans and farm environments- Supervisors
- Statistical modelling methodology for investigating risk factors of antimicrobial use and resistance- Supervisors
- Improving dairy cattle welfare- Supervisors
- Exploring antibiotic use on smallholdings in the UK- Supervisors
- Risk factors for the carriage of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli in puppies and adult dogs- Supervisors
- Farmer innovation for improvement of animal health and welfare- Supervisors
- A participatory, farmer-led approach to changing practice around antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms- Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
30/07/2025A qualitative content analysis exploring the portrayal of antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in UK smallholding print media
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
A qualitative exploration of the enablers of and barriers to conformance with antibiotic withdrawal periods on smallholding, peri-urban pig farms in Kiambu County, Kenya
PLOS ONE
Influences on limited antimicrobial use in small-scale freshwater aquaculture farms in central Thailand
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Novel characterisation of dairy herds in Wales
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
Describing differential dairy herd antimicrobial usage patterns in Southwest England using novel means of farm characterization
Teaching
Kristen makes substantial contributions to teaching across all 5 years of BVSc as well as the Accelerated Graduate Entry Programme for veterinarians. She is the Embedded Theme Lead for evidence-based veterinary medicine across these curricula and has created 2 new directed self-evaluations on evidence-based veterinary medicine, including introducing Knowledge Summaries into the Bristol veterinary curricula. She is Bristol's champion for the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination and also served on the School's Education Recovery Group during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has served as the Bovine Element Lead for BVSc1 as well as the Farm Animal Lead for final year BVSc MCQs.


