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Ali Madad Rajabi
WCS Veterinarian
Ali Madad is a qualified veterinarian who graduated from the University of Kabul in 2005. Since 2006, he has been working with WCS Afghanistan across the country on global health issues, ranging from disease risk and wildlife trade to water bird monitoring and avian influenza. Ali’s main field of expertise is disease risk at the livestock/wildlife interface and zoonotic diseases in the Wakhan and Pamirs. He has also received additional training in conservation medicine, wildlife tranquilization, principles of ecosystem health and avian influenza epidemiology. In 2008, Ali participated in the avian influenza water bird monitoring campaign with WCS in Mongolia. He is particularly interested by birdlife and was part of the WCS team who discovered the large-billed reed warbler in Wakhan in 2009.
Hafizullah Noori
WCS Veterinarian
Hafizullah is a veterinarian with WCS Afghanistan, involved in its ecosystem health projects. Since 2006 he has participated in many missions across Afghanistan and especially in Wakhan and Pamirs where he has worked on zoonotic diseases and health issues at the livestock/wildlife interface, as well as participating in numerous mammal and bird surveys. Hafiz was born in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, and graduated in Veterinary Science from the University of Kabul in 2005. While with WCS, he received additional training in conservation medicine, wildlife tranquilization, the principles of ecosystem health and avian influenza epidemiology. In 2008, he participated in the avian influenza water bird monitoring campaign organized by WCS in Mongolia. He is also a keen birder and was part of the team who discovered the infamous Large-billed reed warbler in Wakhan in 2009.
Stephane Ostrowski
Wildlife Health Project Manager
Stéphane Ostrowski is a wildlife veterinarian with a certification in clinical pathology and a PhD in ecophysiology. He has been involved in conservation projects in Western Asia for the last 15 years. In 2006 he joined WCS for conservation projects developed in Central and Western Asia where he works at bridging science, health and applied conservation. In the Afghan Pamirs, his main goals are to study how and to which extent diseases affect wild host abundance and diversity in conjunction with human modifications of the high-altitude environment, and in developing mitigation activities to reduce disease threats at ecosystem level.

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