Prof Sarah Cleaveland

- Professor of Comparative Epidemiology (Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine)
- Associate Academic (School of Veterinary Medicine)
telephone: 01413305346
email: Sarah.Cleaveland@glasgow.ac.uk
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The principal aim of our research is to understand the dynamics, impacts and implications of infections in natural ecosystems, with a focus on diseases in tropical countries.
Research Interests - Further Information
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Creating a "one medicine" paradigm shift in human rabies prevention through dog rabies control and eventual elimination
World Health Organization
2013 - 2013
- Impact, ecology and social determinants of bacterial zoonoses in northern Tanzania
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2011 - 2015
- Leptospirosis in Tanzania; a study of the role of rodents in an emerging public health problem.
Wellcome Trust
2011 - 2017
- Creating a "one medicine" paradigm shift in human rabies prevention through dog rabies control and eventual elimination
World Health Organization
2011 - 2012
- Towards the strategic control of foot-and-mouth disease in Africa: new techniques for a neglected problem
BBSRC
2010 - 2014
- Understanding how a complex intervention works: designing large-scale vaccination programs
MRC
2010 - 2014
- Development of a vaccination strategy for the control of malignant catarrhal fever
BBSRC
2010 - 2013
- Rodents and bats as reservoirs of zoonoses: ecological and social determinants of human disease risk in Kenya.
MRC
2010 - 2010
- Centre for Integrated Virology
MRC
2010 - 2015
- Understanding the role of contact networks in the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of zootonic disease
Wellcome Trust
2009 - 2011
- An integrated epidemiological study of zoonotic pathogens in linked human and animal populations in rural Kenya
Wellcome Trust
2008 - 2011
- Controlling infectious disease in wildlife populations
Leverhulme Trust
2006 - 2009
Grant Advisory Board
- 2008 - ongoing: I.U.C.N. The World Conservation Union - Canid Specialist Group and Veterinary Specialist Group
- 2007 - 2007: Ministry of Livestock Development (Tanzania) - Member of Working Group to draft national policy on rabies control in Tanzania
- 2006 - 2006: WHO - Consultation on estimating burden of food-borne diseases
- 2004 - 2004: WHO - Expert consultation on rabies
- 2001 - 2001: WHO - Task Force on the control of rabies in Africa and Asia
Invited International Presentations
- 2008: Atlanta, USA - Rabies In the Americas. "Can we achieve the global elimination of canine rabies"
- 2008: Atlanta, USA - International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. ?Exploring the human-animal health interface in Kenya?
- 2008: San Diego, USA - Central Veterinary Conference. "Afya Serengeti: Health for the Serengeti"
- 2007: Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland - ?Rabies: an on-going tragedy in neglected communities?
- 2007: University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine, Champaign-Urbana, USA - ?Linking human and animal health research: neglected and emerging zoonoses?
- 2007: Toronto, Canada - American Society for Microbiology. ?Zoonoses and Human Emerging Diseases?
- 2007: Cambridge, UK - Wellcome Trust Conference on Animal Health. ?Identifying reservoirs of infection?
- 2007: Greece - European Wildlife Disease Association Conference. ?Investigating Wildlife Disease Outbreaks?
- 2006: Geneva, Switzerland - WHO international meeting on the burden of food-borne diseases, ?Neglected food-borne zoonoses: brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis in Tanzania?
- 2006: Cambridge, UK - Wellcome Trust conference on Emerging Diseases, ?Dynamics and surveillance of emerging zoonoses?
- 2005: University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine, USA - ?Infectious diseases in Tanzania: managing threats for people and parks?,
- 2005: Prague, Czech Republic - Canine and feline vaccination: a scientific re-appraisal, ?The broader benefits of canine vaccination?
- 2005: Geneva, Switzerland - WHO/DFID Zoonoses meeting, ?Going Global: Translating Research Findings from Tanzania to Africa and Asia?
- 2005: Arusha, Tanzania - National Institute of Medical Research international conference, ?Bovine Tuberculosis in Tanzania?
- 2004: Glasgow, UK - 17th Annual Symposium of the European Society of Veterinary Neurology. ?Rabies ? an on-going tragedy that need not be tolerated?
- 2004: Leipzig, Germany - International conference on great ape health, ?Impact and control of rabies in wild carnivores: lessons for disease management in primate populations?
- 2004: Glasgow, UK - European Society of Veterinary Neurology, ?Rabies: a terrible disease that need not be tolerated?
- 2004: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lyon, France - ?Wildlife diseases: impacts and implications?
- 2003: Sao Paulo, Brazil - International conference on carnivore conservation and disease, ?Impact of viral infections in wild carnivore populations?
- 2003: Durban, South Africa - World Parks Congress, ?Impacts of Wildlife Infections on Human and Livestock Health: Implications for Protected Area Management?
- 2002: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Netherlands - ?Impact and implications of infectious diseases in wildlife?
Prizes, Awards and Distinctions
- 2008: Trevor Blackburn Overseas Award from the British Veterinary Association
- 2008: Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public Health.
Professional Learned Society
- 2006 - ongoing: European College of Veterinary Public Health - Diplomat
- 2004 - ongoing: IUCN Veterinary Specialist Group - Member
- 2004 - ongoing: Wildlife Disease Association - Member
- 1998 - ongoing: Tanzania Veterinary Association - Member
- 1988 - ongoing: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - Member
- 1988 - ongoing: British Veterinary Association - Member
Research Fellowship
- 1996 - 1999: Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
- 1992 - 1995: Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) Veterinary Fellowship
