Maureen Nanziri Mayanja
Uganda 2014
Maureen Nanziri Mayanja loved animals as a child, which influenced her decision to study veterinary medicine at Makerere University. However, after more than 10 years of working with livestock as a public veterinarian in Uganda’s Mpigi and Wakiso districts on the western shores of Lake Victoria, she became increasingly interested in their human keepers.
I realized that animal disease or low production had a lot more to do with the people taking care of them than with the animals themselves.
Field of Research
My father wanted me to be a medical doctor, rather than a veterinarian as I chose. Now I find that I am helping people as he wanted me to, just in my own way.

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