Richard Kock#

• 2022 01 - 2025 Vice President Wildlife Disease Association; Chief Editor Cambridge University Press Research Directions One Health; Chief Editor Elsevier Major Reference Work Zoonoses and Zoonotic Origin Disease; Science support to Bionext Project Horizon 2020 EU; Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Global Eradication Research Network - atypical species (FAO/WOAH).
• 2011, 01 - 2022,04 Professor Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases Department Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom (Retired independent scholar to present)
• 2006,01 - 2010,12 Wildlife Health Programme Manager, Deserts and Rangelands Conservation Programmes of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), United Kingdom
• 2000,07 - 2005,12 Technical Assistant to the Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootic Disease under African Union/InterAfrican Bureau Animal Resources. epidemiology unit responsible to 32 African countries
• 1998,12 - 2000,06 Technical Assistant to Pan African Rinderpest Eradication Programme managed by OAU Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources: African Wildlife Veterinary Project in 8 countries of East and Central Africa.
• 1998, 03 - 1998,11 Consultant to WWF, FAO , EU (Uganda Wildlife Authority, Egypt National Parks)
• 1991, 01 - 1998,02 PAWS project Kenya: Chief Veterinary Officer Kenya Wildlife Service Nairobi Kenya (Secondment from ZSL)
• 1989, 04 - 1990,12 Veterinary Curator of the Whipsnade Wild Animal Park ZSL.
• 1983, 04 - 1989,03 Chief Veterinary Officer ZSL (Whipsnade Wild Animal Park)
• 1980, 07 - 1983,03 Private Practitioner Hythe New Forest England

• Field investigation, surveillance, diagnosis, epidemiology, control and eradication of morbillivirus infection in African and Asian wildlife
• Wild animal capture, anaesthesiology, translocation and reintroduction, stress prevention, post-capture care and monitoring
• Emerging diseases at the agroecological interface and role of animal food systems
• Conservation and management of large wild mammals and birds
• Epidemio-surveillance and control of wildlife disease
• Wildlife and ecosystem health
• Conservation medicine

• 2023 (2004) University of Pretoria Arnold Theiler Memorial Lecture
• 2022 African Union Award (Commemoration of the AU-IBAR 70th Anniversary and the 10th Anniversary of Rinderpest Eradication) 2020 Tom and Beth Williams award of the Wildlife Disease Association https://wildlifedisease.org/page/Awards
• 2010 FAO Bronze Medal for contributions to Rinderpest eradication
• 2006 Kenya Commendation for work towards Rinderpest eradication

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