Samantha Wisely

Dr. Samantha Wisely is a Professor of Wildlife Ecology and the Director of the Cervidae Health Research Initiative at the University of Florida, Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Her research investigates how global change alters wildlife disease dynamics and designs innovative wildlife pathogen surveillance systems. Using a combination of field and laboratory techniques, she uses a One Health approach to study disease systems and their impacts on threatened and endangered species, at the livestock/wildlife interface, and for wildlife diseases that are threats to human health. Dr. Wisely manages an annual research portfolio of more than $2 million, and she has won multiple honors including a UF Provost Research Fellowship, a national LEAD21 Land Grant University Leadership Fellowship, and most recently a Fulbright Scholarship to the Republic of Serbia. Dr. Wisely received her Ph.D. in Zoology and Physiology from the University of Wyoming, a M.Sc. in Wildlife Biology from Humboldt State University and a B.A. from University of California at San Diego.

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