Dr P. Cross - Staff Profile

Dr Paul Cross
Research Lecturer (Animal Science and Disease Management)

Thoday Building, room S1

Email: paul.cross@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: 01248 382991 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 382991 (International)

Fax: 01248 354997 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 354997 (International)

Research Interests

Zoonotic disease, with a particular focus on E. coli O157 and the evaluation of interventions.

Choice-based modelling and its application to opinion elicitation.

Estimating disease prevalence rates, illicit or illegal behaviours and drug use through the use of socio-economic methodologies.

Current or Recent Projects

2010: Estimating bird crime prevalence rates using three novel techniques. British Academy.

2009: The prevalence of non-treatment of sheep scab in Wales and the economic cost to the livestock industry, Welsh Assembly Government.

2009: Raising awareness about food-borne pathogens in Wales. Local Authority and Research Council Initiative (LARCI).

2008: Food-borne Pathogen knowledge transfer. ESRC.

2008-2010: Reducing Escherichia coli O157 risk in rural communities. RES-229-25-0012. RELU.

Research Students

Anna Jones: Identifying and costing climate mitigation options for sheep farmers in England and Wales. Ph.D

Betty Mamuya: Assessing the Impacts of Organic Farming to Smallholders in Tanzania. Ph.D.

Helen Taft: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing economic and environmental sustainability in the horticultural sector. Ph.D

Ben Winterbourne: Viral Contamination of Marine Water: Assessing the Threat to Human Health. Ph.D

Recent Publications

Shah, S.A.B., N.I.K. Deshmukh, J. Barker, A. Petróczi, P. Cross, R. Archer, and D.P. Naughton. (2012). Quantitative analysis of mephedrone using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy: Application to human hair. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 61:64-69.

Cross, P., Digby, D. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2011) Eliciting expert opinion on the effectiveness and practicality of interventions in the farm and rural environment to reduce human exposure to Escherichia coli O157. Epidemiology and Infection in press Sep 2011

Cross, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2011) Variation in pesticide hazard from arable crop production in Great Britain from 1992 to 2008: an extended time-series analysis. Crop Protection 30: 1579-1585.

Edwards-Jones, G., Cross, P., Harris, I., Le Vay, L., Rayment, M., Scowen, M. and Waller, P. (2011) Provisioning services. In The UK National Ecosystems Assessment Technical Report. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge

Jones, C.D.R., Hunter, C., Williams, A.P., Strachan, N.J.C. and Cross, P. (2011) Escherichia coli O157: comparing awareness of rural residents and visitors in livestock farming areas. Epidemiology and Infection 139: 1522-1530.

Petroczi, A., Nepusz, T., Cross, P., Taft, H., Shah, S., Deshmukh, N., Schaffer, J., Shane, M., Adesanwo, C., Barker, J. and Naughton, D.P. (2011) New non-ramdomised model to assess the prevalence of discriminating behaviour: a pilot study on Mephedrone. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 6: 20.

Rotariu, O., Ogden, I.D., MacRitchie, L., Forbes, K.J., Cross, P., Williams, A.P., Hunter, C.J., Teunis, P.F.M. and Strachan, N.J.C. (2011) Combining risk assessment and epidemiological risk factors to elucidate the sources of human E. coli O157 infection. Epidemiology and Infection in press Sep 2011

Strachan, N.J.C., Hunter, C.J., Jones, C.D.R., Wilson, R.S., Ethelberg, S., Cross, P., Williams, A.P., MacRitchie, L., Rotariu, O. and Chadwick, D. (2011) The relationship between lay and technical views of Escherichia coli O157 risk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 366: 1999-2009.

Cross, P., Edwards-Jones, G., Omed, H. and Williams, A.P. (2010) Use of a Randomized Response Technique to obtain sensitive information on animal disease prevalence. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 96: 252-262.

Cross, P., Edwards, R.T., Nyeko, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2009) The potential impact on farmer health of enhanced export horticultural trade between the UK and Uganda. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6: 1539-1556.

Cross, P., Edwards, R.T., Opondo, M., Nyeko, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2009) Does farm worker health vary between localised and globalised food supply systems? Environment International 35: 1004-1014.

Cross, P., Williams, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2009) Differences in the perceptions of farmers and veterinary surgeons about the efficacy of mitigation strategies for controlling bluetongue. Veterinary Record 165: 397-403.

Cross, P., Williams, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2009) Communication of bluetongue mitigation techniques (response to Carpenter and Nomikou). Veterinary Record 165: 636.

Cross, P., Edwards, R.T., Hounsome, B. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2008) Comparative assessment of migrant farm worker health in conventional and organic horticultural systems in the United Kingdom. Science of the Total Environment 391: 55-65.

Edwards-Jones, G., Milà i Canals, L., Hounsome, N., Truninger, M., Koerber, G., Hounsome, B., Cross, P., York, E.H., Hospido, A., Plassmann, K., Harris, I.M., Edwards, R.T., Day, G.A.S., Tomos, A.D., Cowell, S.J. and Jones, D.L. (2008) Testing the assertion that 'local food is best': the challenges of an evidence-based approach. Trends in Food Science & Technology 19: 265-274.

Gordon, H., Edwards-Jones, G., Roberts, J., Wossink, A., Hunter, C., Chadwick, D., Ogden, I., Jones, D., Strachan, N., Rigby, D., Farrington, J., Teunis, P., Kosmider, R., Williams, P., Cross, P. and Killham, K. (2008) Reducing Escherichia coli O157 risk in rural communities. In Crighton, K. and Audsley, R. (eds.), Agriculture and the Environment VII Land Management in a Changing Environment: Proceedings of the SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference, Edinburgh, pp. 298-301.

Cross, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2006) Variation in pesticide hazard from arable crop production in Great Britain from 1992 to 2002: pesticide risk indices and policy analysis. Crop Protection 25: 1101-1108.

Cross, P. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2006) Variation in pesticide hazard from vegetable production in Great Britain from 1991 to 2003. Pest Management Science 62: 1058-1064.