Natalia Casas

Veterinary Natalia Casas holds a MSc in Epidemiology, Management and Public Health Policies of the University of Lanús and a specialization in Field Epidemiology Training Program of the University of Tucumán. She is the National Zoonosis Coordinator in the Ministry of Health of Argentina since 2010, working in the surveillance, prevention, control and eradication of zoonotic diseases, including planning and management. She was Supervisor of the Regional Unit of Epidemiology and Environmental Health in the Ministry of Health of the Province of Rio Negro, working in zoonosis, epidemiology, bromatology and environmental health. Previously, Dr Casas worked in the Faculty of Veterinary of the University of Buenos Aires and in small animal clinics.

Author and co-author of over 40 publications on rabies, hydatidosis, hantavirus, leishmaniasis, poisonous animals, psittacosis, leptospirosis, brucellosis, yellow fever and botulism, she is member of the Argentine Association of Zoonosis (AAZ), the Argentine Association of Hydatidology, the International Steering Committee for Rabies in the Americas (RITA) and the Society for Vector Ecology (SOVE).

Dr Casas is part of regional groups coordinated by PANAFTOSA/VPH-PAHO/WHO, such as Directors of the Rabies Programs of the Americas (REDIPRA) and South American Initiative to the control of Cystic Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis. She was also part of the visit by experts to review the file on the elimination of human rabies transmitted by dogs in Mexico and advised the National Program of Surveillance and Control of Zoonotic Diseases in Aruba.