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	Jonna Mazet- BS, DVM, MPVM, PhD Professor Medicine & Epidemiology +1 530 754 9035 jkmazet@ucdavis.edu

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Specialty Focus	Wildlife Health
Education	1990 BS , University of California, Davis, 1992 DVM , University of California, Davis, 1992 MPVM , University of California, Davis, 1995 PhD , University of California, Davis,
Honors and Awards	1986 Agricultural Fraternity of Calpha Scholarship 1987 Luther D and Marie M Davis Scholarship 1987 Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America Scholarship 1988 Hansen-Wells Memorial Fellowship 1991 CBV Laboratory Scholarship for Research Excellence 1993 University of California Regents Fellowship 1994 Graduate Group in Epidemiology Fellowship 1999 Sustained Superior Accomplishment Award, California Dept of Fish and Game 1998 Outstanding Team Award for the development and implementation of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network 2001 2000 Legacy Award States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force 2001 Appointed to the Governor of California's Oil Spill Technical Advisory Committee 2004 Resolution from the State of California in honor of making California the internationally recognized world leader in oiled wildlife response
Active Research Grants	Principal Investigator, Southern sea otter disease and contaminant studies, (Principal Investigator), United States Geological Survey Principal Investigator, Training Tomorrow's Ecosystems & Public Health Leaders Using Marine Mammals as Sentinels of Oceanic Change, (Principal Investigator), NOAA-UCAR OHHI Graduate Training Program Principal Investigator, Rapid Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance of Marine Mammal Health, (Principal Investigator), National Marine Fisheries Service Co-Investigator, The Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: A "One Health" Approach to Conservation, Kirsten Gilardi (Principal Investigator), Packard Foundation Principal Investigator, California Marine Ecosystem Health Diagnostic & Surveillance Laboratory, (Principal Investigator), California State Coastal Conservancy - Ocean Protection Council Principal Investigator, Building Capacity and Awareness to Mitigate Conservation Threats from Zoonotic Diseases at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface in the Ruaha Ecosystem, Tanzania, (Principal Investigator), USDI: US Department of Fish and Wildlife Service Co-Investigator, Molecular Ecology of Avian Influenza Virus in Wild Birds and Mammals, Walter Boyce (Principal Investigator), NIH-NIAID Co-Investigator, California's oiled wildlife care network: administration, training, operations, research, and technology development, Michael Ziccardi (Principal Investigator), California Department of Fish and Game Co-Investigator, Strengthening Tanzanian livestock health and pastoral livelihoods in a changing climate, Ian Gardner (Principal Investigator), Adapting Livestock Systems to a Changing Climate Collaborative Research Support Program, USAID Co-Investigator, Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Novel Transmission Routes in Rural Tanzania, Walter Boyce (Principal Investigator), NIH Principal Investigator, Phocine Distemper Virus: An Old Enemy from the Atlantic Now Threatening the Pacific, (Principal Investigator), Morris Animal Foundation Principal Investigator, PREDICT - Wildlife SMART Surveillance for Zoonotic Diseases of Pandemic Potential, (Principal Investigator), US Agency for International Development
Most Recent 10 Publications	2012 Shapiro K, Miller M, Mazet J Temporal association between land-based runoff events and California sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) protozoal mortalities Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2012 Woodroffe R, Prager K, Munson L, Conrad P, Dubovi E, Mazet J Contact with domestic dogs increases pathogen exposure in endangered African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) PLoS One, 2012 Prager K, Mazet J, Munson L, Cleaveland S, Donnelly C, Dubovi E, Gunthere MS, Lines R, Mills G, Davies-Mosterti H, McNutt T, Rasmussen G, Terio K, Woodroffe R The effect of protected areas on pathogen exposure in endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) populations DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.005 Biological Conservation, 2012 Shapiro K, Silver W, Largier J, Conrad P, Mazet J Association of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts with fresh, estuarine, and marine macroaggregates. Limnology and Oceanography, 2012 Tseng M, Fleetwood M, Reed A, Gill V, Harris RK, Moeller R, Lipscomb T, Mazet J, Goldstein T Mustelid Herpesvirus-2, a novel herpes infection in Northern sea otters (Enhydra Lutris Kenyoni) Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2011 Harris H, Benson S, Gilardi K, Poppenga R, Work T, Dutton P, Mazet J Comparative health assessment of Western Pacific Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) foraging off the coast of California, 2005–2007 Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2011 Done L, Case J, Mazet J, Ziccardi M Assessment of the quality of multi-institutional data for population-based epidemiological studies: a case study of Atoxoplasmosis in Bali Mynahs (Leucopsar rothschildi) Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2011 Carrasco S, Burek K, Beckmen K, Oaks L, Davis M, Baker K, Mazet J Aerobic oral and rectal bacteria of free-ranging Steller sea lion pups and juveniles (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2010 Shapiro K, Conrad P, Mazet J, Wallender W, Miller W, Largier J Effect of estuarine wetland degradation on transport of Toxoplasma gondii surrogates from land to sea Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2010 Scott C, Mazet J, Powell A Health Evaluation of Western Arctic King Eiders (Somateria spectabilis) Journal of Wildlife Diseases,
Most Recent 5 Book Chapters	2010 Mazet JAK, Johnson CK: Approaching health problems at the wildlife-domestic animal interface, Miller RE, Fowler ME, (ed), Foler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine: Current Therapy, 7th ed., St. Louis, Missouri. 153-160. 2012 Bogich TL, Olival KJ, Hosseini PR, Zambrana-Torrelio C, Loh E, Funk S, Brito IL, Epstein JH, JS, Joly DO, Levy MA, Jones KE, Morse SS, Aguirre AA, Karesh WB, Mazet JAK, Daszak P: Using Mathematical Models in a Unified Approach to Predicting the Next Emerging Infectious Disease, Aguirre AA, Ostfeld R, Daszak P, (ed), New Directions in Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health, New York, New York. . 2002 Mazet J: Overview: managing for biodiversity, Rappaport D, Qualset C, Lasley W, Damania A, (ed), Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Boca Raton, Florida. 353.