Raina Plowright, PI, USA/Australia

Raina is a Professor with the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. She received her veterinary degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, and then traveled to the USA as an Australian Fulbright and Centennial Scholar to do her Ph.D. in ecology and M.Sc. in epidemiology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She was a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Raina then joined Montana State University where she and her lab studied pathogens that spill over from animals to people, the dynamics of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife populations, and pathogens that threaten wildlife conservation. Raina joined Cornell University May 2022.