Salma Sultana

Sultana received this award for her innovative model of providing veterinary outreach, treatment, and education to thousands of small-scale farmers in Bangladesh.

While working on her master's degree, she started researching on antimicrobial activities of medicinal plants and their anthelmintic efficacy.

While working at the foundation, she realized that there was a significant gap between the availability and the demand for animal healthcare in rural areas.

She observed that farmers, whose livelihoods are heavily dependent on their livestock could not afford proper treatment, and thus they sometimes resorted to untrained doctors or treating the animals on their own.

Malpractice of quack doctors, farmer's unawareness, growing AMR, and unemployment, these were made her think and motivated to work for the country in the livestock sector.