Rate My Professor Renata Fernandes Santos

Santos specializes in wildlife and conservation medicine, veterinary epidemiology, and One Health. Her research has centered on health assessments of threatened species, particularly lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in Brazil's Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, investigating impacts from poaching, pesticides, heavy metals, rabies, ticks, rickettsia, and other pathogens. Key publications include 'Health assessment of wild lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in the highly threatened Cerrado biome, Brazil' (2020, cited 35 times, co-authored with Emilia Patricia Medici et al.); 'Lowland tapir exposure to pesticides and metals in the Brazilian Cerrado' (2021, cited 28 times); 'Rabies Virus Exposure in Wild Lowland Tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) from Three Brazilian Biomes' (2021, cited 9 times); 'Poaching and hunting conflicts and health assessment of wild lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in the Atlantic Forest biome, Brazil' (2024, cited 10 times, co-authored with R.M. Paolino et al.); 'Terrestrial Invasive Species on Fernando de Noronha Archipelago' (2020, cited 19 times); and 'Targeted molecular screening for protozoan parasites in wild platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and associated risk factors for infection' (2025). She co-edited the Tapir Veterinary Manual (2014, IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group) and contributed chapters on cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, amebiasis, and hematological parameters in primates. At Murdoch, she has served as Animal Health Ontology Research Assistant and Project Officer for the ASEAN-Australia One Health Fellowship Program.