Dr. Mark Flint
BVSc, BSc(Hons), MApplSc, MPhil, PhD, DACAW
Mark is an American Veterinary Medical Association Board Certified Specialist in Animal Welfare, a clinical veterinarian and a research scientist with a PhD in conservation medicine.
Prior to developing Flint Welfcare, Mark spent over 25 years in research and academia, where he most recently served as the Head of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine and the Founding Director of the One Welfare and Sustainability Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University.
Since 1995, he has conducted wildlife and marine research and investigations in Australia, Africa and the USA and continues to lead active research programs in each country.
Mark’s research areas focus on identifying prevalent and emerging diseases in terrestrial and aquatic wildlife species as they relate to environmental and commercial stressors. The overarching theme to his investigations is to identify anthropogenic and natural pressures that will impact on the survivorship of species and health of the ecosystem. He takes a multi-species approach to this investigation concentrating on fauna that offer potential as a sentinel of One Welfare for their environmental niche.
He is widely published on these topics in continuing education, journals and book chapters; and is frequently an invited speaker at conferences, businesses and universities.
A U.S. Army veteran, Mark understands the importance of teamwork as a strategy for achieving the bigger picture of working towards a common good. He is experienced in the complexities of operating in foreign regions on sensitive topics with stakeholders at all levels of government and community.
Dr. Jaylene Flint
BSc, PhD, GradDipEd
Jaylene is a wildlife biologist, epidemiologist, and qualified secondary school teacher with a science degree in marine biology and a PhD in epidemiology.
Before turning her attention fulltime to co-running Flint Welfcare, Jaylene worked as the Senior Conservation Officer for the Queensland Department of Environment Resource Management and most recently as an Assistant Professor in Ecosystem Health and the Associate Director of Research and Education of the One Welfare and Sustainability Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University.
For nearly 20 years, Jaylene’s professional work has focused on Zoo and Wildlife Conservation and Ecosystem Health. Specifically, she examined threatened species conservation, education and research and how these disciplines can be better combined to understand ecosystem health and mitigate negative environmental impacts.
Her passion for wildlife was started as a young child when she would spend her summers at Wreck Rock in Australia helping her parents monitor the nesting populations of loggerhead turtles. From here she learned the interconnectedness and importance of humans, animals and the environment and developed this ingrained understanding into her career studying One Health and One Welfare. Nowadays, working in Australia, the US, Africa and Asia, Jaylene combines aquatic biology working with sea turtles, sirenia and crocodilians as well as interfacing with stakeholders and field collection of data to create large scale databases for generating predictive One Welfare models used to determine the optimal welfare-oriented conservation strategy.
She is widely accomplished in continuing education, has published journals articles and book chapters and is well regarded as an expert in her field and as a science communicator.
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