Erin Fraser
Public Health Veterinarian; Clinical Assistant Professor, BCCDC; School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Dr. Fraser obtained a BSc in biology, MSc in Epidemiology, and her doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) from the University of Guelph. She has more than twenty years of experience as an epidemiologist, public health veterinarian, and researcher. Her professional interests range from animal and public health; zoonotic and vector-borne disease detection, prevention and control; antimicrobial use and resistance surveillance; and climate change and health. She co-founded Veterinarians without Borders - Canada and was the organization's first executive director. She has worked across Canada and internationally with interdisciplinary, multicultural teams to develop programs and projects that address locally relevant One Health issues from zoonoses and communicable disease surveillance, prevention, detection, and control, to wildlife health, food security, nutrition and factors that affect livelihoods.
She previously worked at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Integrated Program for AMR Surveillance and established BC’s retail meat surveillance program. She leads the One Health aim of a large scale applied research project 'PeptAid – Antimicrobial Peptides to Replace Antibiotics in Farm Veterinary Practice'.
