Speaker bio page for Hayley Squance

Bio

Hayley is a national animal welfare emergency management coordinator for the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand. She is a veterinary technologist who has over 20 years experience in the veterinary profession in emergency and critical care as well over a decade in academia. Whilst at Massey University School of Veterinary Science as an Associate Dean Hayley developed and led the veterinary emergency response team to fill a notifiable gap in New Zealand. Hayley has had multiple deployments as a first responder nationally and internationally along with over 25 activations to local and regional events including floods, wildfires, earthquakes and snow events as an animal welfare emergency management coordinator. She is in her final stages of a PhD in Emergency Management focusing on enhancing multiagency collaboration for animal welfare emergency management. Hayley is a practitioner, researcher and educator in emergency management.