Margaret Khaitsa, a professor in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine at Mississippi State University, is the next speaker for the microbiological sciences fall seminar.
Khaitsa’s presentation, “A One Health Joint Plan of Action at the Global Level,” will be held in Van Es Hall room 101 on Friday, Sept. 15 at 3 p.m.
Khaitsa is a professor of veterinary epidemiology with an international focus. She is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. A graduate of Makerere University, Uganda, University of Edinburgh, UK, The Ohio State University, Khaitsa previously served as assistant and associate professor at NDSU.
She is a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow, (2014, 2017, Uganda and Tanzania) and a Fulbright Fellow (2020/2021, Kenya). Khaitsa participated in WHO/FAO /OIE Tripartite Technical Working Group on Review of Zoonoses Guide "Training and Workforce Development" 2017. Since May 2021, she is serving as a Member of One Health High-Level Expert Panel, a 26-member global panel advising FAO, OIE, UNEP and WHO on One Health.
Her areas of research are infectious disease epidemiology and food safety, and she has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications. She is a Co-Founder of Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa (HERS-EA; www.HERSEA.org), a non- governmental organization advancing women in leadership and management. HERS-EA received the 2023 Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) Excellence in Community Partner Engagement Award.
Khaitsa has won several awards and honors including Mississippi State University Regions Bank Division of Agriculture, Forestry, & Veterinary Medicine Superior Faculty Award-International Category, 2022, Outstanding Faculty Woman Award (2017) and President's Commission on the Status of Women Faculty Award (2017).
