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Gabriel Mkilema Shirima is a holder of PhD in Veterinary Public Health [Epidemiology of emerging infectious-Zoonoses] from the University of Glasgow-UK and Masters of Public Health from Sokoine University. He works, as a Senior Lecturer in One Health and Emerging/re-emerging infectious zoonoses at NM-AIST and Adjunct Professor at Washington State University-USA. More than 28 years, he has been teaching at different institutions and conducting research on public health and community based research in multidisciplinary teams.

He did several consultancies as master trainer on disease interventions. He authored and co-authored more than 45 publications and 20 conference proceedings. His current interest is on One Health, AMR and epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses. Recently, I developed interest on computer assisted diagnosis to hasten disease diagnoses in remote areas.

Dr Shirima apart from teaching, he supervised and mentored postgraduate students (MSc and PhD) in different fields related to Medical and Veterinary grounds encompassing One Health.

To build research culture and students capacity building in terms of mentoring and supervision North-South and South-South collaborations is the focus. He also mentored and supervise students in from other universities such as Washington State University-USA, Maseno University-Kenya, university of Glasgow-UK and Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. Participated as external examiner for MSc and PhD students from internal and external institutions

He managed several projects in collaboration with other institutions such as SNAP-AMR in collaboration with Glasgow University (Prof. R. Zadocks-PI), Molecular epidemiology of Brucellosis in collaboration with Glasgow University (Dr J. Halliday-PI), Cattle vaccination against Malignant Catarrhal Fever: Balancing pastoral livelihoods, food security and ecosystem integrity in the Serengeti, Tanzania (Prof. Sarah Cleaveland) and Food and nutritional security-CREATES supported by the World Bank Project.

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