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RVC HONOURS
Dr Kalema-Zikusoka is support farmers living around habitats
Founder and CEO of Conservation where gorillas are found.
Through Public Health (CTPH), an Dr Kalema-Zikusoka has received
award-winning non-profit NGO fellowships and numerous awards for
that protects endangered gorillas her work as both a veterinarian and
and other wildlife through One conservationist. In 2021, she was
Health approaches. recognised by Avance Media as one
She graduated from the RVC in 1995 of the 100 Most Influential Women in
and established Uganda Wildlife Africa and she won the United Nations
Authority’s first veterinary department Environment Program Champions of
the following year. In 2000, she did the Earth Laureate, in the Science and
a Zoological Medicine Residency Innovation Category. She also became a
and Master in Specialized Veterinary member of the WHO Special Advisory
Medicine at North Carolina Zoological Group for the Origin of Novel Pathogens.
Park and North Carolina State University, Dr Kalema-Zikusoka has recently written
where her master’s research on disease a book ‘Walking with Gorillas’ and you
at the human/wildlife/livestock interface can read more about that and her recent
led her to found CTPH. In 2015, she visit to the RVC on page 61.
founded Gorilla Conservation Coffee to
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