Sarah Cleaveland

Sarah Cleaveland OBE FRSE[1] is a veterinary surgeon and Professor of Comparative Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow. She was the first woman to be awarded the British Veterinary Association Trevor Blackburn Award in 2008 in recognition of her work on animal and human infectious diseases in Africa.[2] She is a founding director of the Alliance for Rabies Control whose mission is to prevent human deaths caused by infection with the rabies virus and reduce the burden of this disease in animals.[3] In 2012 she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4]

Cleaveland obtained a veterinary degree from the University of Cambridge in 1988 and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1996. Following a 10 year period at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, she is currently based at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow.[5][6] A large part of Cleaveland's research has focused on the epidemiology of zoonotic diseases in northern Tanzania, including rabies. Her work has involved the initiation of mass rabies vaccination programmes for domestic dogs in the Serengeti, which has not only indirectly prevented hundreds of human deaths, but also protected wildlife species such as the endangered African wild dog.[6]

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to veterinary epidemiology,[7] and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in October 2015.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Stearns, Beverly Peterson; Stearns, Stephen C. (2000). Watching, from the edge of extinction. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-300-08469-6.
  2. ↑ "Vet honoured for animal health and welfare work in Africa". British Veterinary Association. 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  3. ↑ "BVA highlights work of British vets in fight against rabies". British Veterinary Association. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  4. ↑ "RSE Fellows" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  5. ↑ "Prof Sarah Cleaveland". Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  6. 1 2 "Trevor Blackburn Award 2008" (PDF). British Veterinary Association. September 2008. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b11. 14 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "NAM Elects 80 New Members". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 2015-11-01.

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