Speaker bio page for Saskia Hendrickx

Bio

Saskia Hendrickx is a veterinary epidemiologist and Deputy-Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems at the University of Florida, which manages 45 research for development projects that use animal-source foods to improve nutrition, health and incomes in two South Asian and six sub-Saharan African countries. Before joining the University of Florida, Saskia worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) focusing on improving the surveillance of (zoonotic) livestock diseases and improving livestock production to increase household income.