Zoë Campbell

Zoë Campbell

Scientist, Gender & Animal Health

Zoë Campbell is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the intersection between gender and animal health. Before joining ILRI, she worked as a wildlife technician in her home state of Oregon, and later as an environmental extension officer in the Peace Corps in southern Tanzania. She is based in Nairobi, but fondly considers Tanzania to be a second home.

Zoë holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health. Through a unique sandwich program in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania, she combined methods and theories from economics, social sciences, and global animal health to learn more about why people were or weren’t vaccinating their chickens for Newcastle disease.

Research activities at ILRI include considering gender and socioeconomic considerations in the design and delivery of veterinary products ranging from bacteriophages for goat mastitis to diagnostic pen-side tests to detect acaracide resistance in ticks with the goal of reaching more livestock keepers. She also develops study designs and frameworks to consider gender within One Health activities.

Profile picture thanks to Folusho Onifade/ IITA Nigeria.

 

 

 

My Blog Posts

Agripreneur Mwende Baraka, played by Fiona Ashley, defies expectations of women in her community by riding her motorbike through Makutano, delivering veterinary services, vaccinated chicks, and farm inputs to her women clients in the new edutainment series, “Maisha Makutano” (photo credit: Mia Collins).

ILRI News

“Maisha Makutano”, Kenya’s new edutainment series, features ILRI’s gender and livestock research

Isiolo Livestock Trade Facilitation (B2B) Forum (ILRI / Judy Kimani).

ILRI News

Promises and pitfalls of making livestock vaccination more accessible

ILRI News

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Laughter, the universal language

My Projects

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ACTIVE

Rapid Tick exposure Test for acaricide management (RaTexT)

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ACTIVE

Goat Health: Harnessing Bacteriophages for Mastitis Prevention in Kenya (GO HEAL MASTITIS)

Poultry

Poultry losses and One Health (POLOH): Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

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PRomoting and Enabling Vaccination Efficiently, Now and Tomorrow (PREVENT)

Women and men animal health service providers standing in an arid area near a flock of goats and sheep in Isiolo County, Kenya

Scaling improved strategies for Rift Valley fever vaccination in livestock in eastern Africa

My Publications

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Workshop on the gender, One Health, safeguarding, and human rights principles

  • Anariba, S.B.
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Implementing gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in smallholder chicken value chains in Tanzania

  • Achandi, Esther L.
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Hatchery field technicians in Tanzania change behavior after “social extension” mentorship program with Women in Business (WiB) mentors

  • Campbell, Zoë A.
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Women in chicken business: An ILRI innovation scaled through the Maisha Makutano TV series

  • Galiè, Alessandra
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Implementing Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in smallholder chicken value chains in Muleba, Tanzania: A Process Brief

  • Achandi, Esther L.
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Social Extension Mentorship Program

  • Campbell, Zoë A.