Hellen Amuguni

Dr. Hellen Amuguni  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts  University with a dual appointment at the Tufts  University school of medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. She has technical expertise in infectious disease, Gender and One Health, She is currently the Risk Reduction Co-Lead for the Tufts led USAID funded STOP Spillover One Health grant- that focuses on supporting countries in Africa and Asia to stop spillover of infectious diseases from wildlife to humans, as well as reduce amplification and spread in the human population. She is also the PI for an IDRC funded Gender and Livestock Vaccine Innovations grant that focuses on women’s empowerment and engagement in the livestock vaccine value chain in three countries in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. She works at the cutting edge of the One Health initiative, which combines a multidisciplinary approach and human, animal and environmental health knowledge for monitoring and prevention of current and emerging diseases and integrates gender components into her work as part of her approach in strengthening collaboration and capacities of the sectors and actors involved in health service delivery.