One Health Seminar

"Building a Better One Health Model for Africa: Nexus of Animal and Human Health," Dr. Linda L. Logan, a professor and director of International Programs at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science at Texas A&M University.

A reception will be held in the Coverdell Lobby immediately following the presentation.

Logan is a professor and director for international programs at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science at Texas A&M University. She is a veterinarian who has work in Africa and the Middle East for more than 20 years in roles including livestock disease research, SPS trade issues and laboratory and disease surveillance capacity building. She served as a scientist and project research leader at ILRI/ILRAD, National Program Leader for Animal Health at the USDA ARS and the executive director of the Texas Animal Health Commission (state veterinarian) for Texas. Just prior to returning to Texas A&M University, Logan served as a foreign service attaché with the USDA APHIS International Programs in Cairo and Dakar. In this role she addressed with USDA and Agricultural regulatory Agencies in the countries she covered to help resolve the technical barriers to agricultural commodities that constrained trade. During the Avian Influenza H5N1 emergency response of 2007-2010 she organized, in partnerships with FAO, AU-IBAR, FAS, APHIS, OIE, host country ministries, and key livestock and poultry private sector stakeholder, a series of strategic workshops throughout Africa and the Middle East to address biosecurity, emergency response and laboratory and surveillance capacity needs for poultry diseases.

This presentation is sponsored by the UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute’s Division of One Health and the Department of Pathology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Contact: Laura Balkcom 706-542-5922