Andy Stringer

Andy Stringer has a veterinary degree and spent the initial years of his career volunteering for a veterinary non-profit organisation in Morocco, completing an equine veterinary internship and in equine primary care practice. He returned to the UK to study for a PhD focused on evaluating the efficacy of knowledge-transfer interventions for communicating animal health messages to rural farmers in Ethiopia using a large randomized controlled trial.

Andy joined a British non-profit organisation in 2010 as Director of Veterinary Programmes, where he was responsible for managing global veterinary programmes aimed at improving the health and welfare of working animals, before taking up a position as Director, Global Health Education and Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State. In these roles, he leads the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Global Health and International Programmes. Andy Stringer also holds the positions of Board Chair of the Triangle Global Health Consortium, a non-profit organisation based in North Carolina, and Board Trustee of The Donkey Sanctuary. In addition, he is also an Honorary Lecturer in International Animal Health at the Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool.