Kamilla Pleh is a veterinarian from Budapest, Hungary, with extensive field and research experience in wildlife health and zoonotic diseases. She served as the head veterinarian at the Taï Chimpanzee Project in Ivory Coast, overseeing the health of four groups of habituated wild chimpanzees and monitoring mortality of all species across the entire research area. Her PhD focused on examining the ecology of sylvatic anthrax (Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis), a pathogen responsible for significant animal mortality in the Taï Forest ecosystem, and investigating the potential role of termites and forest antelopes in its transmission.

Kamilla has also worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea, conducting comprehensive sampling of domestic and wild animals to study zoonotic disease transmission in rural and urban settings. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), contributing to the DFG-funded GATECEP project. In this role, she oversees health surveillance and research activities across multiple great ape field sites in sub-Saharan Africa.