Episode 6 - Joe Bailey -The Humanimal Trust

Episode 6 - Joe Bailey -The Humanimal Trust

Author: maryvy March 1, 2024 Duration: 40:19

In this episode of The Animal Welfare Conversation we are joined by Joe Bailey, CEO of the Humanimal Trust, a charity set up in 2014 by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick to support collaboration between human health professionals and veterinary professionals, to enable knowledge sharing for the benefit of humans and animals. We find out more about one medicine and discover why education is central to improving animal welfare. We consider sentience and how important it is to ensure that all animals have choice; and look in more depth at why complacency can be one of the biggest challenges to animal welfare. And finally, Joe highlights how everyone can make a difference, and how great things can be achieved if everyone does one small thing every day.

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Biography

Joe Bailey joined Humanimal Trust as CEO in November 2023. She has worked in various animal welfare related roles, predominantly for the RSPCA, as an Inspector and then more recently as Head of farming, welfare and wellbeing for RSPCA Assured. Joe is passionately dedicated to protecting animals, preventing suffering, exploitation and abuse, and not only influencing but delivering systemic change in order to create a better, fairer world for all beings, which is the reason the Trusts aims of converging human and animal medicine-One Medicine-appealed. By building strong relationships with NGOs, Governments, and other organisations both in the UK and globally, she has positively affected change in behaviour and in policies pertaining to welfare, wellbeing and sustainability. Joe is a Nuffield Scholar, having studied ‘The Welfare of man and Beast’ and travelled extensively looking at the correlation between welfare and wellbeing. she is on the Board of One Welfare Phoenix, and has recently become a Trustee of My Black Dog, a mental health charity.

 


What does it truly mean to care for an animal, whether it's a beloved pet at home or a species on the brink in the wild? Animal Welfare Conversations digs into that question through candid, often surprising discussions with the people on the front lines. Hosted by maryvy, each episode brings you directly into dialogue with veterinary surgeons and nurses making critical medical decisions, conservationists designing field interventions, and animal owners navigating daily ethical choices. The scope is deliberately broad, covering pets, domestic animals, farm residents, zoo inhabitants, and wildlife, because the principles of compassionate care connect them all. You'll hear concrete stories about decision-making and the realities of providing a good life, not just abstract theory. This is a podcast built on curiosity and a willingness to re-examine what we think we know, challenging assumptions about standard practices and long-held beliefs in the pursuit of tangible improvement. It’s for anyone-families, science enthusiasts, or nature lovers-who believes animal welfare is a complex, evolving conversation worth having. Tune in for perspectives that are both deeply personal and rigorously practical, reminding us of our shared responsibility toward the creatures in our care.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 41

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