Dominican Doctor To Lead FAO Veterinary Training Program In Africa

Dr. Caryl Lockhart DVM MsC Ph.D., will be the lead Coordinator for the In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology (ISAVET) Program, a newly launched joint venture by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the US-based, Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases.

This esteemed Doctor, who hails from the village of Pointe Mitchel in Dominica, will coordinate the entire program as well as teach various modules. Lockhart is a Veterinary Epidemiologist and Research Associate Professor, at Kansas State University.

Some 180 veterinarians drawn from 14 African countries will benefit from the ISAVET Program which was launched recently by the FAO and the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases (IIAD), part of Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

The countries involved in the 12-month long program include Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda.

The Program will be directed from an approach involving public, animal and wildlife health as well as pathogens that cross institutional mandates and geographic boundaries. Read the FULL story over at DominicaNewsOnline.

ABOUT: Lockhart grew up on the Caribbean island of Commonwealth of Dominica. She attended Clifton Dupigny Community College in Dominica from 1989 to 1991. After a year of Spanish language training at the Universidad de Camagüey, in Camagüey, Cuba, she attended the Universidad Agraria de la Habana, in Havana, Cuba, where she earned a Doctor de Medicina Veterinaria degree in 1997. She also obtained a Master of Science in tropical livestock production from the Universidad Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1999.

Lockhart worked as an animal health officer and veterinary and livestock officer for the Ministry of Agriculture in Roseau, Dominica, from 1997 to 2003. She has authored 12 publications and has organized various international short courses in veterinary epidemiology, and social network analyses for the Food and Agriculture Organization and other organizations. Her professional interests include epidemiological methods and practical application to animal health; disease surveillance, risk assessment, spatial epidemiology, infectious disease modeling and animal movements, and value chains.

Learn more about Dr. Caryl Lockhart DVM MsC Ph.D. HERE.