Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Welcome to the author page of Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a wildlife veterinarian and conservationist, 2022 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, 2022 Edinburgh Medal recipient for her work in planetary health, 2021 United Nations Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation, a National Geographic Explorer, and the recipient of the Sierra Club Earthcare Award. She is also a member of the World Health Organisation Scientific Advisory Group for the Origin of Novel Pathogens. While treating the mountain gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, she founded her nonprofit Conservation Through Public Health, a systems-changing policy of making human health a priority to assure the health of wildlife, and the social enterprise Gorilla Conservation Coffee to protect endangered gorillas by creating prosperity for the local human communities. She lives outside Kampala, Uganda, with her husband and two sons.