The world’s leading authority on ethnoveterinary medicine will come to Iowa State to share her knowledge on animal disease.

Constance McCorkle will give a presentation about animal disease today in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at 8 p.m., as part of a lecture series put on by CIKARD, a global indigenous knowledge and resource center.

CIKARD is partially funded by the ISU Student Society for Indigenous Knowledge and Development (SSIKD). McCorkle’s speech is one of four lectures sponsored annually by CIKARD and SSIKD.

McCorkle is a specialist in “community-based knowledge in dealing with animal disease and indigenous knowledge,” said Mike Warren, professor of African anthropology and director of SSIKD.

The title of her speech, “Ethnoveterinary Medicine: A Global Perspective,” will bring “insight into what is going on all over the globe,” with animal disease, Warren said.

She will be speaking about traditional methods of treating animals giving examples from around the world, focusing on ethnoveterinary medicine, said Blythe Burkhardt, president of SSIKD.

McCorkle is a developmental anthropologist and has her own consultant company that works with non-governmental organizations such as the World Bank, United States Aid and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Burkhardt said.

She is also a trustee on the board of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture and has worked in Africa, Europe, Asia and in most countries all over Latin America, she said.

Other events for the 1996 CIKARD annual lectures include:

* Two graduate student presentations by Darci Thelaner on “The Effects of Mechanization on Women Palm Oil Producers in Nigeria,” and Penny Rechkemmer Andresen on “Women Farmers of Ara, Nigeria” will be held at noon in the Gold Room of the Memorial Union today.

* Edward Green, independent consultant and medical anthropologist who will speak about primary health care for AIDS, STD’s, family planning and environmental health. Green has done work in Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the Caribbean. He will be speaking Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. His speech is called “Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine: An AIDS Program in Africa.”

* Constance McCorkle will be speaking again Thursday in Room 306 of Curtiss Hall on “Being A Female Anthropologist in Development Projects.”

* A CIKARD open house will take place Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 324 of Curtiss Hall.