Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (born 8 January 1970) is a Ugandan veterinarian and founder of Conservation Through Public Health, an organisation dedicated to the coexistence of endangered mountain gorillas, other wildlife, humans, and livestock in Africa.^[1]

Kalema-Zikusoka was Uganda’s first wildlife veterinary officer and was the star of the BBC documentary, Gladys the African Vet.^[2] In 2009 she won the Whitley Gold Award for her conservation work.^[3] In December 2021 she was proclaimed a United Nations Environment Programme‘s Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation for her work with the One Health initiative