Joann LindenmayerJoann Lindenmayer DVM, MPH, is adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS). A graduate of Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicin and the Harvard School of Public Health, her research has focused on various aspects of One Health, most recently the ethical underpinnings of this internationally recognized initiative. She serves as the Northeast Director of the Evidence-Based Veterinary Medical Association, Senior Editor of CABI One Health Resources, and Vice Chair of the Uxbridge MA Board of Health. She is also a fellow in the PanWorks Think Tank (https://panworks.io/), for which the motto is "Bringing Ethics to Life," and where she is Team Lead for the One Health Ethics channel. Dr. Lindenmayer spent seven years living and working in Sabah, East Malaysia (North Borneo) as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and in Niger, West Africa, as a veterinarian for expatriate dogs and cats and epidemiologist studying reproduction and production parameters among sheep herds owned by semi-nomadic herders. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical Foundation of Boston for epidemiologic research in Lyme Disease and was a fellow in the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, serving her two-year fellowship in the Division of Field Epidemiology, Vermont Department of Health. In 2013 she and Dr. Michael McGuill received the Roy Montgomery Award from EBVMA for Information Wizardry: A Six-week Course for Practicing Veterinarians to Improve Clinical Decision-making. As an Associate Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, she was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the interactions between veterinary medical and public health professionals during the HPAI outbreak in Southeast Asia, and she served as a Principal Investigator for Tufts RESPOND grant, a $185 million dollar grant awarded by USAID to strengthen the international response to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. She was the DVM-MPH dual degree program director at the Cummings School from 2006 to 2014, and the Senior Manager for Disaster Operations for Humane Society International from 2014-2016. She has published widely in veterinary medical, public health, animal welfare and infectious disease journals. Joann is an avid competitive dragon boat racer and shameless lover of dogs. Read More Read Less