Zoë Campbell

Bio

Zoë Campbell is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the intersection between gender and animal health. Before joining ILRI, she worked as a wildlife technician in her home state of Oregon, and later as an environmental extension officer in the Peace Corps in southern Tanzania. She is based in Nairobi, but fondly considers Tanzania to be a second home.

Zoë holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health. Through a unique sandwich program in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania, she combined methods and theories from economics, social sciences, and global animal health to learn more about why people were or weren’t vaccinating their chickens for Newcastle disease.

Research activities at ILRI include considering gender and socioeconomic considerations in the design and delivery of veterinary products ranging from bacteriophages for goat mastitis to diagnostic pen-side tests to detect acaracide resistance in ticks with the goal of reaching more livestock keepers. She also develops study designs and frameworks to consider gender within One Health activities.