Joe Bailey
Humanimal Trust Appoints New Chief Executive
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Humanimal Trust, the charity founded in 2014 by Supervet Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, has appointed a new Chief Executive. Joe Bailey joins the charity in November from RSPCA Assured, where she has been Head of Farming, Welfare and Wellbeing for the last seven years, having started her RSPCA career as an Inspector and with a total of more than 20 years working in the animal welfare sector.
Humanimal Trust drives collaboration between vets, doctors and researchers so that all humans and animals benefit from sustainable and equal medical progress, but not at the expense of an animal’s life. This is One Medicine.
Looking forward to her new role, Joe said: “Although I feel honoured to be appointed as CEO, it's not the title that is important, it's the opportunity to be who I am, living and working my values, and being part of the Humanimal Trust vision alongside dedicated and passionate people.
“The pandemic has given us a massive opportunity to show how a One Medicine approach will enable us to be stronger together and create a sustainable future for us all. Our priorities must be centred around awareness, education and raising funds to achieve our objectives and maximise our impact.”
Chair of Humanimal Trust’s Board of Trustees, Professor Roberto La Ragione welcomed Joe to the charity, saying: “On behalf of all Humanimal Trust trustees, staff and volunteers, I would like to welcome Joe to the team and wish her well in the challenges ahead as we seek to build a movement for One Medicine together. Joe’s experience speaks for itself, and I have no doubt that her understanding of and passion for our purpose will help take Humanimal Trust to the next level.”
Humanimal Trust’s work covers five streams of activity, spelling out its mantra I-CARE:
Influence - we care about bringing together everyone who knows and cares about One Medicine to create a road map for change in public policy and at the clinical coalface.
Collaboration - we care about creating opportunities to bring together human and veterinary professionals and students to learn from one another by demonstrating One Medicine at work.
Awareness - we care that more people should know and understand the benefits of One Medicine for humans and animals, about non-animal alternatives to laboratory models and how much human and animal medicine can learn from one another’s clinical practice.
Research - we care about research - funding it, encouraging it, supporting it, shouting about it - that could benefit humans and animals without the use of laboratory animal models.
Education - we care about learning - we care about every child learning about the connections between humans and animals; about veterinary and human medical students learning together and from one another; about professionals learning continuously from their peers.
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- One Medicine webinars to showcase positive changes for all species
