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Mikalah Singer, JD 

26th June 2023

is the Founder and Executive Director of Fox Protection International, Science Policy Specialist at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and the Co-Director of Northern America for the World Moot on International Law and Animal Rights. She is an Oregon-barred attorney with a JD, Certificate in Animal Law, and L.L.M. in Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law from Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, OR, USA). Mikalah completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was part of the Toxicology Policy Program (Baltimore, MD, USA). Her primary research is the overall risks animal exploitation poses to human health. She focuses on supporting in vitro models in research and safety testing to facilitate the shift away from animal experimentation and prevent future pandemics related to wildlife trade and industrial animal agriculture by translating scientific information into policy initiatives. She has presented papers at conferences in the US, Canada, and the UK, and is published in both legal and scientific journals including the Animal Law Review, AMA Journal of Ethics, and ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentation.