BOARD OF DIRECTORS
UK Alliance for Rabies Control Board:
Board Observer:
US Global Alliance for Rabies Control Board (501c3):
Board Member Biographies:
Dr
Ray Butcher
Dr. Butcher is a veterinarian in a companion animal practice in Upminster, UK. Essex. He is a Past President of both the British and European Small Animal Veterinary
Associations, and is currently a Veterinary Advisor and Board Member of the World Society for the Protection of
Animals (WSPA). His main area of work in this context is related to aspects
of humane stray animal control.
Dr Deborah Briggs
Dr. Deborah Briggs is an adjunct professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at
Kansas State University.
She has contributed to the World Health Organization expert
consultation on rabies. Her interests focus on veterinary and
human
diagnostics, laboratory quality assurance, educational awareness and
emerging
infectious diseases.
Dr Sarah Cleaveland
Dr. Sarah Cleaveland is a Senior Lecturer in veterinary epidemiology based at
the Royal (Dick) School of
Veterinary Studies, University
of Edinburgh, UK. Over the past 12 years, her research work has
been centred in northern Tanzania, focusing on the epidemiology of rabies and
other infectious diseases at the human-wildlife-domestic animal interface. She
has contributed to the 2005 World Health
Organization expert consultation on rabies.
Dr Bob Dedmon
Dr. Dedmon is a board-certified internist and occupational health physician, former medical director of Kimberly-Clark Corp. His interest in rabies is the result of his extensive travel for his employer, including a chance meeting with Professor Henry Wilde in Bangkok (Chulalongkorn University), who encouraged him to get involved. He 'retired' in 1997, but remains active in the areas of global public health, travel medicine, and rabies prevention.
Dr Julie Gallagher
Dr. Julie Gallagher is a General Practitioner at a busy teaching practice
in Edinburgh. She has a special interest in Travel Medicine
and is on the Executive Committee
of the British Travel Health Association where she also holds the post of
Hon.Treasurer. Julie has broad "in the field" travel medicine
experience having worked for a variety of charities taking groups to rural Africa and India for community development projects.
Mr Dan Hoffman
Accountant, Pottberg, Gassman & Hoffman
Dr Karen Laurenson
Dr. Karen Laurenson is a wildlife epidemiologist and conservationist, who has worked
as a Lecturer in Wildlife Epidemiology, carrying out research in Ethiopia on the impact of rabies on Ethiopian wolves and
domestic dogs. She is currently working for an international Conservation NGO, Frankfurt Zoological Society
implementing conservation projects in Africa
but maintains academic interests in applied research on zoonotic diseases.
Dr Abdul Rahman
Dr.
S. Abdul Rahman is the former Dean of Veterinary College, Bangalore and
the Vice President of Rabies in Asia Foundation (RIA) and founder
member of Association for Control and Prevention of Rabies in
India(APCRI). He has worked closely with WHO Regional Office for South
East Asia in various programs involving Rabies control. At present he
is the Secretary of the Commonwealth Veterinary Association
which has a membership of 53 Commonwealth Countries of the world. He is
a Member of the International Council of Compassion in World Farming UK
and is the co-opted member of the Animal Welfare Board of India and is
actively engaged Animal Welfare and has organized many national and
international seminars on Animal Welfare in India. He has with joint
collaboration between CVA and WSPA conceptualized the Concepts of
Animal Welfare to be included as part of the Veterinary curriculum in
India. He is a member of the OIE Working Group on Animal Welfare and
member of OIE Ad hoc Group on Dog Population Control.
Board Observer:
Dr François Meslin, Head of Zoonotic diseases, World Health Organization
