Michigan State University
Fisheries & Wildlife Department
Graduate Student Organization
The GSO Symposium is a student-organized event with the goals of increasing communication within our department and amongst our partners, showcasing the range of research topics we are investigating, and providing graduate students with an opportunity to present their research in a professional atmosphere.
The 2026 Symposium will be held on March 20th, 2026 at the MSU Union
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amanda Fine
Director of One Health
Wildlife Conservation Society
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Amanda Fine is the Director of One Health at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). She has 20 years of experience working in Asia, first based in Mongolia as WCS Country Program Director, and more recently in Viet Nam overseeing WCS health initiatives in the Southeast Asia region. Amanda led WCS’s engagement in USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threat Program’s PREDICT Project and supported the development of the WildHealthNet initiative which is currently building national wildlife disease surveillance capacity and networks across Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. Amanda has a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology from Michigan State University. During her career Amanda has led a series of interdisciplinary “One Health” initiatives focused on the management of disease at the interface of human, livestock, and wildlife health with projects and research focused on zoonotic viruses, avian influenza in wild birds, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in wild and domestic ungulates, bovine tuberculosis, and Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) virus at the wildlife/livestock interface.
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More Details on Her Keynote Presentation to Follow...