One Health for Dog-mediated Rabies Elimination in Asia: A Collection of Local Experiences

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Vanessa Slack (Edited By) Vanessa Slack holds a BS in Zoology from Northern Michigan University and an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus USA. Since 2018 she has analysed and mapped surveillance data from animal rabies cases and human exposure risks in Colorado and Texas. She then worked as a Zoonosis Control Program Specialist at the Texas Department of State Health Services USA with a focus on rabies case investigations and the Oral Rabies Vaccine Program along the Texas-Mexico border. She is currently working at the University of Michigan as an Associate Research Laboratory Technician conducting statewide disease surveillance through wastewater monitoring. Deborah Nadal (Edited By) Deborah Nadal holds a BA in South Asian Studies and an MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology. The book that resulted from her PhD research titled Rabies in the Streets. Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India (2020 Penn State University Press) has won the English Language Book Award in the Social Sciences at the International Convention of Asia Scholars and an Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Book Award Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. She then received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for a postdoctoral research project on rabies at the Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine of the University of Glasgow UK and the Center for One Health Research of the University of Washington USA. Currently she teaches and does research on multispecies health at the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice Italy. She continues to collaborate with the University of Glasgow and the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization as well on rabies-related projects. Sandul Yasobant (Edited By) Sandul Yasobant has completed his health education and public health training at Utkal University (Odisha) and Sri Ramachandra University (Chennai) in India. He has completed the doctoral programme 'One Health & Urban Transformation' at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) University Bonn Germany and obtained a public health doctoral degree from the medical faculty University of Bonn Germany in 2020. He holds two prestigious fellowships: Operational Research Fellowship-2015 India and EBQ- VLIR-UOS Scholar-2016 Belgium. He is currently working as a technical officer (research) at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG) India. Florence Cliquet (Edited By) Florence Cliquet obtained her PhD in Immunology and Biochemistry at the Université de Lille in France. She has been working on rabies since 1992. Currently she is the Research Director of the OIE / WHO / EU Reference Laboratory for rabies Anses-Nancy Rabies and Wildlife Laboratory France. She has published more than 200 hundred academic papers most of them on rabies. Waqas Ahmad (Edited By) Waqas Ahmad trained as a veterinarian at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad in Pakistan and received his PhD from the Institute of Zoonoses Jilin University Changchun China. He has contributed to about 20 scientific publications. He is currently working as an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Narowal Campus Lahore Pakistan. Nihal Pushpakumara (Edited By) Nihal Pushpakumara BVSc. MSc. MPM. MPhil. trained in veterinary and veterinary epidemiology at the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration in Colombo Sri Lanka and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. Since 2016 he has worked as a senior wildlife veterinary surgeon at the Wildlife Veterinary Hospital Eastern Region Sri Lanka. Sumon Ghosh (Edited By) Sumon Ghosh is a veterinarian working as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Public Health University of Tennessee Knoxville USA. He worked in the Infectious Diseases Division of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (icddrb). Dr Ghosh has also been involved in research on rabies with the Directorate General of Health Services of Bangladesh. He has collaborated actively with researchers from diverse disciplines on several projects of public health importance in Bangladesh. His expertise and research interests lie in the realm of infectious diseases especially emerging and re-emerging pathogens in tropical environments global health medical microbiology disease control and vaccination. Dr Ghosh did his graduation in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Chittagong Veterinary & Animal Sciences University in Bangladesh and post-graduation (MS) from the same institute. He has received a fellowship from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) Bangladesh as Post Graduate Research Grant. He has been short-listed for World Rabies Day Award 2019 by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control USA.