BIWFC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The Botstiber Institute’s Advisory Committee is designed to include leaders in the fields of wildlife fertility control, wildlife management, veterinary medicine, human dimensions, conservation, science communication, regulatory agencies, animal welfare, pharmaceuticals, NGOs, for-profits, and academia. The Committee will include members who also function as chairs of working groups, serving as the liaison between their working group and the Advisory Committee.

CHAIR

Stephanie Boyles Griffin

Senior Scientist
Wildlife Protection Department
The Humane Society of the United States
USA

MEMBERS

Sumanth Bindumadhav

Director, Wildlife Protection
Humane Society International
India

THOMAS J. CONLON

Chief Scientific Officer & Scientific Advisory Board Chair
Michelson Found Animals Foundation
USA

DOUGLAS C. ECKERY

Assistant Director
National Wildlife Research Center
USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, USA

LYN HINDS

Research Fellow
CSIRO Health and Biosecurity
ACT, Australia

JENS JACOB

Group Leader
Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
Germany

Founding Emeritus Advisors 

BIWFC gratefully acknowledges the invaluable contributions of the following Inaugural Advisory Board members who guided the Institute from its inception and positioned it for a dynamic future:

CHERYL ASA
Advisory Board Chair, AZA Reproductive Management Center

HENK BERTSCHINGER 
Emeritus professor, BVSc, DrVetMed, PhD, Veterinary Population Management Laboratory, Department of Production Animal Studies University of Pretoria, South Africa

SATISH GUPTA
Emeritus Scientist, J. C. Bose National Fellow, Former Deputy Director, NII, Reproductive Cell Biology Lab, National Institute of Immunology, INDIA

CATHERINE HERBERT 
Associate Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney

HARM HOGENESCH 
Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Immunopathology, Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine

COLIN JOHNSTONE, BVMS, MRCVS
Member, Advisory Board, Botstiber Foundation

ANDREW ROWAN
President and Chief Program Officer, WellBeing International

ALLEN RUTBERG 
Director, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

DID YOU KNOW?

Fertility control is currently used throughout the world on species including elephants, wild horses, deer, wild pigs, squirrels, and kangaroos.

For More Information:

For further information about the BIWFC Advisory Committee, please contact Stephanie Boyles Griffin, Committee Chair, at sboyles@humanesociety.org.

For further information about BIWFC Working Groups, please contact Larry Green, Outreach Coordinator, at lgreen@botstiber.org

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