Live Podcast Event: The Realities of Animal Experimentation

Meet the Speaker

Dr. Alka Chandna has spent two decades fighting to end cruelty towards animals. She is the Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Cases at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Since joining PETA’s staff in 2003, she has liaised with PETA’s research, legal, and investigations teams to cultivate expertise on the use of animals in experimentation. She has submitted dozens of complaints, spotlighting violations of US federal animal welfare laws, guidelines and policies.

 In 2010, after she wrote PETA's complaint against a North Carolina–based contract animal-testing facility, the laboratory surrendered nearly 250 dogs and cats and shut its doors. More recently, she worked on PETA's successful campaign to end a series of maternal-deprivation experiments on monkeys at the US National Institutes of Health. She has had original research published in peer-reviewed journals on policies pertaining to problems with oversight of animal experimentation; and has presented some of this work at scientific conferences. Before coming to PETA, Alka served as a tenured professor of mathematics at Memorial University.