PhD Student (2016-2019) Anna qualified as a veterinarian from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 2010. She worked in ambulant equine and small animal practice and equine medical product management in Germany and completed a research project looking at animal welfare and zoonotic disease risk in small ruminants used in human-animal-interventions on city farms. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a MVetSci degree in Conservation Medicine and has volunteered with wildlife in several countries. She started her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in September 2016 on a Principal’s Career Development PhD scholarship. Her project focusses on leprosy in Eurasian red squirrels – an ancient human disease in a newly discovered conservation sensitive wildlife reservoir. She is an avid research communicator and is interested in conservation and veterinary medicine, zoonotic disease, animal welfare, and wider wildlife and conservation topics. This article was published on 2024-09-02
