Prof. Michele received her MS and PhD in Immunology, and DVM from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Masters’ in Public Health (MPH) at the University of Florida-Gainesville. She is also a diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine. She did her post-doctoral training at San Diego Zoo, then went on to work at several zoos in the U.S, including being a Veterinary Manager at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. She moved to South Africa in 2013, when she was awarded the NRF South African Research Chair in Animal TB at Stellenbosch University, although she is based full-time in Kruger National Park. She is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, where her multidisciplinary research focus is TB and other zoonotic diseases at human-livestock-wildlife-environment interfaces.
