Sarah Cleaveland

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Sarah Cleaveland
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Scientific career
Thesis The epidemiology of rabies and canine distemper in the Serengeti, Tanzania (1996)
Website
www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/bahcm/staff/sarahcleaveland/
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Sarah Cleaveland OBE FRS FRSE is a veterinary surgeon and Professor of Comparative Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow.

Education

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.[1]

Career and research

She moved to the University of Edinburgh, and she is now[when?] a professor at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine and a member of the Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health at the University of Glasgow.[2][3] 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.[3]

Awards and honours

Cleaveland 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.[4] 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.[5] She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[6] in 2012, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in October 2015,[7] and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in April 2016.[8]

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to veterinary epidemiology.[9]

References

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  9. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b11. 14 June 2014.

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