Institution
WCS
Based in
United States , Annapolis
Languages
English
Short Bio
Lucy Keatts, BVetMed, MVSc, MRCVS
Associate Director, Health Program
Dr. Lucy Keatts is a veterinarian and Senior One Health Advisor with the WCS Health Program. Lucy graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2003, with a specialization in Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine and has since worked as a wildlife veterinarian in the Caribbean, UK, India, Vietnam, Lao P.D.R., Cambodia and the United States. Lucy holds a Masters in Veterinary Conservation Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. She became driven to work on the risks that wildlife trade and other anthropogenic activities pose to human and animal health, and their associations with disease emergence, whilst working in wildlife rescue in Southeast Asia just as the SARS-Coronavirus emerged from a Chinese wildlife market. Lucy has been with WCS since 2009, supporting a variety of wildlife health efforts, including studying interactions at the wildlife-human-livestock interface, wildlife trade surveys, conducting surveillance for avian influenza and emerging pathogens through the PREDICT project, and leading Health Program communications. Lucy is passionate about promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary One Health approaches through a conservation lens, with recognition that human, animal, plant and environmental health and well-being are all intrinsically connected.
Associate Director, Health Program
Dr. Lucy Keatts is a veterinarian and Senior One Health Advisor with the WCS Health Program. Lucy graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2003, with a specialization in Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine and has since worked as a wildlife veterinarian in the Caribbean, UK, India, Vietnam, Lao P.D.R., Cambodia and the United States. Lucy holds a Masters in Veterinary Conservation Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. She became driven to work on the risks that wildlife trade and other anthropogenic activities pose to human and animal health, and their associations with disease emergence, whilst working in wildlife rescue in Southeast Asia just as the SARS-Coronavirus emerged from a Chinese wildlife market. Lucy has been with WCS since 2009, supporting a variety of wildlife health efforts, including studying interactions at the wildlife-human-livestock interface, wildlife trade surveys, conducting surveillance for avian influenza and emerging pathogens through the PREDICT project, and leading Health Program communications. Lucy is passionate about promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary One Health approaches through a conservation lens, with recognition that human, animal, plant and environmental health and well-being are all intrinsically connected.
Other Expertise
One Health
Wildlife Veterinary Medicine
Emerging Diseases
Biodiversity Conservation
Wildlife Disease