One Health Case Studies

Susan Cork (Edited By)
Dr Susan Catherine Cork is a professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Canada. Her research interests include veterinary public health, infectious diseases, animal health policy, and international development. Dr Cork has travelled extensively, including work as a volunteer veterinarian in South Asia, and she has over 25 years' experience working with Bhutanese colleagues on animal health related projects. She recently co-edited a Book on One Health Case Studies: Practical Applications of the Transdisciplinary Approach (2025), published by CABI and was the lead editor for a book on One Health and EcoHealth Case Studies, published in 2016 and 2024 respectively, She was also the lead editor for the third edition of the Veterinary Laboratory and Field Manual (2019) which was endorsed by the World Organization for Animal Health. The latter books were based on field experience gained working with colleagues in international development projects as well as from leading transdisciplinary teams alongside government agencies and NGOs in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, and Bhutan (South Asia). Dr Cork holds a veterinary degree and PhD from Massey University and a postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy from the University of Victoria, New Zealand. She is a member of the new CABI One Health initiative and has previously contributed to other CABI books including chapters on food safety, disease surveillance, animal health policy, and disease ecology. Dr Cork has published a wide range of peer reviewed papers, government reports, and general interest articles.

Joann Lindenmayer (Edited By)
Joann Lindenmayer DVM, MPH, is adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS). A graduate of Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health, her research has focused on various aspects of One Health, most recently the ethical underpinnings of this internationally recognized initiative. She serves as the Northeast Director of the Evidence-Based Veterinary Medical Association, Senior Editor of CABI One Health Resources, and Vice Chair of the Uxbridge MA Board of Health. She is also a fellow in the PanWorks Think Tank (https://panworks.io/), for which the motto is "Bringing Ethics to Life," and where she is Team Lead for the One Health Ethics channel. Dr. Lindenmayer spent seven years living and working in Sabah, East Malaysia (North Borneo) as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and in Niger, West Africa, as a veterinarian for expatriate dogs and cats and epidemiologist studying reproduction and production parameters among sheep herds owned by semi-nomadic herders. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical Foundation of Boston for epidemiologic research in Lyme Disease and was a fellow in the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, serving her two-year fellowship in the Division of Field Epidemiology, Vermont Department of Health. In 2013 she and Dr. Michael McGuill received the Roy Montgomery Award from EBVMA for Information Wizardry: A Six-week Course for Practicing Veterinarians to Improve Clinical Decision-making. As an Associate Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, she was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the interactions between veterinary medical and public health professionals during the HPAI outbreak in Southeast Asia, and she served as a Principal Investigator for Tufts RESPOND grant, a $185 million dollar grant awarded by USAID to strengthen the international response to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. She was the DVM-MPH dual degree program director at the Cummings School from 2006 to 2014, and the Senior Manager for Disaster Operations for Humane Society International from 2014-2016. She has published widely in veterinary medical, public health, animal welfare and infectious disease journals. Joann is an avid competitive dragon boat racer and shameless lover of dogs.