Mamoona Chaudhry

Dr
Mamoona
Chaudhry

Associate Professor
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Biography

Dr. Chaudhry is serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. She completed her DVM (1997) and Masters (1999) from College of Veterinary Sciences, Lahore and her PhD from Edinburgh School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK in 2013. Her research dissertation was on “Epidemiology of Avian Influenza with Specific Emphasis on Subtype H9N2 in Pakistan”.  She has been serving in UVAS since 2006. She has published more than 25 articles in high impact peer-reviewed journals of high international repute and has won many national and international awards. Dr. Chaudhry has recently won a research grant of worth 2,36900 USD under Pak-US Science & Technology Cooperative Program after fierce competition. Her research focuses on epidemiology of important zoonotic and infectious diseases of veterinary and public health importance. These includes: Avian and human influenza, Dengue, CCHF, Rabies, Leishmaniasis, Food borne pathogens, Bovine Tuberculosis, Newcastle Disease, Foot & Mouth Disease etc. Her work has integrated various qualitative and quantitative epidemiological methods to estimate the burden of various diseases and have identified potential risk factors for disease spread among the communities. She has supervised more than 25 postgraduate students, who are working on high quality research parameters and have produced some valuable results. She has collaboration with many research institutes worldwide and have developed international collaborative projects aiming to enhance the competences and capacity building in developing countries.  

Research interests

My research focuses on diseases at Human-Animal Interface. I am interested to develop different surveillance strategies for the early detection of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of humans and animals in lower and Middle income countries like Pakistan; conducting outbreak investigations of various animal diseases and using that model for human, identifying risk factors of diseases, conducting spatio-temporal analysis of disease spread and control and prevention strategies.