Fabiana Lopes Rocha

Program Officer, Head Officer CSS Brazil

M.S., Ecology & Conservation, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, 2006
Ph.D., Parasitology, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), 2013

Fabiana is a wildlife veterinarian and ecologist. Since 2014, she has been working as a post-graduate advisor in ecology, environmental monitoring, and zoology at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Her academic interest is in the areas of ecology, parasitology, and conservation of wild mammals, with an emphasis on carnivores, wildlife diseases, and One Health. She also collaborates as a researcher at the Laboratory of Mammals (MAME, UFPB), Cerrado´s mammal conservation program (PCMC), and Conservation Medicine Brazilian Institute (TRÍADE).

Fabiana joined the IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group in 2013 and became a Program Officer in 2018. Since 2019, she has coordinated the IUCN SSC Center for Species Survival Brazil, a three-way partnership among the IUCN Species Survival Commission, CPSG, and Parque das Aves. Her work now is focused on bringing global standards and tools to improve capacity to assess, plan, and act within governmental, NGOs, and other relevant stakeholders to save species, as well as supporting CPSG and CPSG Brasil.