Jenni Zambriski

Dr. Jenni Zambriski is a researcher, educator, and global health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience at the interface of human, animal, and ecosystem health. She holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tufts University and a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Cornell University. Dr. Zambriski is a National Science Foundation IGERT recipient, spending 2 years in Ethiopia studying Food Systems and Poverty Reduction. She also has the distinction of being the first veterinarian to be awarded that National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship, spending 1 year in Peru and Bolivia working on Chagas disease and brucellosis. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, she was appointed as a faculty member at Washington State University and at Virginia Tech, where her global health research focused on the development of novel therapies targeting zoonotic diarrhea in children. In this role she developed the first-ever therapeutic to treat cryptosporidiosis in pediatric populations. Dr. Zambriski also served as a One Health Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has authored several peer-reviewed research publications, including a first-author publication in the journal, Nature. Her career in One Health has spanned global health security, emerging pathogens, and pandemic threats, taking her to over 20 LMICs, working for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CDC, USAID, and others. As a public health educator, Dr. Zambriski draws on 2 decades of global health experience in the development and implementation of programs and policy for foreign governments and multilateral organizations. Through her teaching, she uses experiential methods to train and empower the next generation of global health practitioners. In addition, Dr. Zambriski is still active in companion animal clinical practice as an emergency medicine veterinarian, providing support to local hospitals. She has 2 cats (Pepé and Flower), a Corgi (La-Ti-Da), and a bunny (Cupcake), who are all best friends!