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Trevor Blackburn Award 2008

Author: BVA
Posted: Monday 29th September, 2008. 00:00:00

Dr Sarah Cleaveland was announced as the winner of the Trevor Blackburn Award in recognition of her work on zoonotic, livestock and wildlife diseases in East Africa and for her outstanding contributions to animal and human health, wildlife conservation and animal welfare in Africa and beyond. The announcement came during the Awards Ceremony at the British Veterinary Association’s Annual Congress in London.

Dr Cleaveland is a veterinary epidemiologist who has been based at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies for the last ten years, moving this month to Glasgow University, where she will divide her time between the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr Cleaveland’s research work has focused on the epidemiology of infectious disease at the human-wildlife-domestic animal interface, including rabies, canine distemper, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis and echinococcosis. Rabies has been her principal interest for many years and in 2006 Dr Cleaveland spearheaded the establishment of the Alliance for Rabies Control which provides a focus for international advocacy for global canine rabies elimination and celebrates its second annual World Rabies Day on September 28.

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