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Creating impact through collaboration

  • Tiffany Wolf sits next to a tranquilized moose.

    Creating impact through collaboration

    Tiffany Wolf recognized as 2021 President's Community-Engaged Scholar Campus/Collegiate Awardee

    Tiffany Wolf sits next to a moose that was tranquilized as part of a research project investigating declining moose populations in Minnesota. 

Research often is associated with discovery, but for one College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member, it’s also about impact. 

Dr. Tiffany Wolf, assistant professor in the Veterinary Population Medicine Department, engages communities as collaborative partners in research and scholarship to promote equity and sustainability in health and conservation.  

“We want to have research that is impactful, that is rigorous, and that can be directly applied in the communities in which we're working,” Wolf says. “If we're doing work that is a priority to them and is of value to them, that means it's gonna have much greater impact and be much more sustainable in the long term.”

Tiffany Wolf

 Wolf’s work has earned her a prestigious award from the University of Minnesota. Wolf is a 2021 President's Community-Engaged Scholar Campus/Collegiate Awardee.

The award is the University's highest recognition for exemplary scholarship incorporating University knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility, address critical societal issues, and contribute to the public good.

As a wildlife epidemiologist, Wolf has a broad interest in understanding diseases of wildlife populations at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. Her research explores several topics, including investigating the decline of moose populations and disease transmission between human and wildlife populations. As part of her work, she has collaborated with the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes of North America and the Waiwai of Southern Guinea and South America. 

“It was really the community engagement that I found to be incredibly rewarding,” Wolf says. “Hearing the community's perspectives, hearing their priorities and their values was really what informed the kind of work that I started doing.”