Preventing Disease Outbreaks: Lessons From Uganda

In this insight Dr Glady Kalema-Zikusoka shares that we cannot (afford to) see nature as separate to us, because we need a multi-disciplinary approach to prepare for and tackle crises, like the one that we are in now.

Mar 17, 2020

Thirza Loffeld

WildHub Co-founder, WildHub Conservation Community

Preventing Disease Outbreaks: Lessons From Uganda

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Interesting read on Forbes.com by Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, veterinarian, Founder and Director of Conservation Through Public Health working with mountain gorillas and communities in Uganda.

Thirza Loffeld (She/Her)

WildHub Co-founder, WildHub Conservation Community

My background is mainly in species conservation, education and capacity exchange. I researched mother-young interactions in gorillas and chimpanzees, in captivity and the wild. After that, I worked for three years in Indonesia, where I developed and implemented youth ambassador and community engagement programmes on local and regional scales. I co-founded WildHub, a community of nature conservation professionals, in 2020 and work as their Community Lead. I am furthermore on the Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent where I obtained my PhD on capacity development for conservation in 2022.