Technical consultancy
One Health, Animal Welfare and Biosecurity
Prime Consulting has supported clients in animal welfare, biosecurity and One Health for more than three decades. Working where human, animal and environmental health overlap, we bring structured analysis, practical experience and a multidisciplinary team to help organisations reduce risk and build resilience.
Our work spans containment design, biosafety assessments and full One Health programme design and review. Whether the issue is emerging disease, climate related health risks or industry specific welfare challenges, our approach remains evidence based and solutions focused.
Our team includes epidemiologists, environmental health specialists and technical advisors with deep experience in surveillance, biosecurity policy, welfare standards and emergency health response. This capability is strengthened by the veterinary and biological incursion expertise of our Group Chairman, Dr Alan Pearson.
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Animal Welfare
For more than 30 years, Prime Consulting has supported welfare improvements across livestock industries and development programmes worldwide. Work has included contributing to Codes of Practice in New Zealand and Australia, advising industries on welfare standards and helping shape national strategies such as the Australian pork sector’s 10 Year Vision. In Mongolia, our advice on humane slaughter contributed to industry reform. Other assignments have examined welfare compliance drivers across New Zealand’s major livestock sectors.
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Biosecurity and Biosafety
Prime Consulting’s foundations include early incursion risk management for the New Zealand Government, which has since expanded into a broad portfolio of biosecurity and biosafety work. Assignments range from reviewing the Australian pork industry’s Biosecurity Code of Practice to analysing the economic impacts of invasive species and supporting disease outbreak responses such as Mycoplasma bovis.
Expertise covers surveillance, risk assessment, emergency response and biosafety systems across multiple sectors.
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One Health and Pandemic Prevention
Pandemic risks increasingly arise where people, animals and ecosystems intersect. Prime Consulting’s One Health work focuses on frameworks and action plans that reduce risk, protect food systems and improve public health capability.
Experience includes designing surveillance frameworks in Central Asia, supporting Vietnam with a five year One Health action plan and helping Pacific Island nations secure climate related health financing.
Specific Capabilities
Prime Consulting offers a wide range of technical services, including:
Risk assessment
Industry and community consultations
Review of existing documents and data
Recommendations on system improvements and risk mitigation
Technical advice on zoonotic disease control, food safety and antimicrobial resistance
Economic analysis and decision support modelling
Public health and health infrastructure review
Environmental health advisory work
Examples of Our Work
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Assessment and recommendations for a regional One Health surveillance framework across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for the World Bank.
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Development of a national health strategy addressing climate driven health risks for the Cook Islands Government and Asian Development Bank.
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Technical assistance to prepare a funding proposal to strengthen climate resilient health systems, including infrastructure and service delivery.
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Preparation of a five year national One Health plan funded by the European Union, addressing animal, environmental and human health risks.
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A technical paper for the Ministry for Primary Industries estimating private sector productivity losses from invasive species.
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Technical analysis of climate change impacts on invasive species and animal or plant pathogens in Samoa and Tonga for the Pacific Community.
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Development of an industry wide strategy and long term vision for animal welfare improvement.
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Investigation into livestock and human transmission pathways and design of a vaccination programme using GIS technology.
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Advice on hygienic and humane slaughter practices that guided industry reforms.
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A major assessment of national surveillance programmes with recommendations for system improvements.
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A national survey examining compliance behaviours across livestock industries for the Ministry for Primary Industries.
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Investigation of biosecurity risks associated with pig movements for the former Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.