Anna Meredith

Personal Chair of Zoological and Conservation Medicine

I am a Professor of Zoological and Conservation Medicine and joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 1992. My interests and expertise lie at the interface between animal, human and ecosystem health (One Health), the conservation of biodiversity, and wildlife population health. I graduated from the University of Oxford (MA Physiological Sciences), University of Cambridge (Bachelor of Medical Sciences and Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine) and University of Edinburgh (PhD), and am a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Recognised Specialist in Zoological Medicine and a European College of Zoological Medicine (ECZM) Specialist in Wildlife Population Health. I am also a Fellow of the RCVS and currently chair the Fellowship Science Advisory panel. I helped establish ECoS (Edinburgh Conservation Science) and am its current Chair. I have over 30 years veterinary clinical, teaching and research experience in wild animal health and welfare, and am actively involved in a wide variety of wildlife research and conservation projects, including red squirrel, raptor and seabird population health.  

In 2018  I moved to Australia to be Head of Melbourne Veterinary School, University of Melbourne, and returned to Scotland in 2022 to resume my position at the University of Edinburgh.