Institution
University of Surrey Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Based in
United Kingdom , Guildford
Languages
English
Short Bio
Dr Mumford has over 30 years’ experience addressing infectious and zoonotic diseases at the human-animal-environment interface in the USA, Switzerland, and internationally. She has worked in equine ambulatory practice, in academia researching infectious diseases of horses, and in the private sector running international animal health/food safety/public health educational and capacity development projects. From 2006 to 2024 at the World Health Organization in Geneva, she was responsible for building and nurturing WHO’s technical and policy relationships with the international animal health sector and public health partners globally in facilitating the development and international implementation of One Health.
Since 2012 she contributed to the work of the University of Surrey as a visiting lecturer with the Population Systems and Public Health Section of the School of Veterinary Medicine and as a Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability. Moving forward, she will continue to promote evolution in the application of One Health by expanding its scope and building in complexity and systems thinking methods and approaches, and broader exploration of One Health and sustainability themes as they apply to the veterinary profession.
Since 2012 she contributed to the work of the University of Surrey as a visiting lecturer with the Population Systems and Public Health Section of the School of Veterinary Medicine and as a Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability. Moving forward, she will continue to promote evolution in the application of One Health by expanding its scope and building in complexity and systems thinking methods and approaches, and broader exploration of One Health and sustainability themes as they apply to the veterinary profession.