Jill Moss
President and Founder of a UK registered charity
The Bella Moss Foundation

Jill Moss trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London in the late eighties. After a ten year successful acting career in television and film and stage Jill left the world of acting and became a radio and television presenter for Sky News and BBC radio as well as a freelance reporter. In 1992 Jill completed a (BA hons) degree in Broadcast journalism at the University of Westminster in London.

When Tragedy struck in 2004 and Bella (Jill’s beloved Samoyed dog) contracted and died from MRSA following routine knee surgery, Jill set up an information website called pets-mrsa (www.pets-mrsa.com) and was soon inundated with enquires from around the world about cross infection from people with MRSA, pet owners with infected pets, and practitioners in human and animal healthcare.

In 2005 The Bella Moss Foundation emerged as a charity concerned with cross infection between humans and animals and today Jill Moss dedicates her life to the fulfillment of the Bella Moss Foundation and its work. The Bella Moss Foundation is a member of DEFRA’s DARC MRSA Sub-Group committee on MRSA in animals, a member of DEFRA’s consumer engagement committee on animal welfare and a member of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW).

Since the Foundation’s birth Jill has worked tirelessly to build up good relationships with medical, veterinary professionals and with government departments concerned with zoonotic diseases. Today The Bella Moss Foundation exists as a charity that helps to educate and inform and save lives.

Jill Moss
“I never set out to be a president of a charity. Watching my beloved Bella die a slow and agonizing death of an infection that could have been prevented has changed the direction of my life. I have gained so much knowledge in microbiology and science and I am proud to be the founder of a charity that is going from strength to strength and has become a point of reference for people all over the world to become educated in the ways of preventing the spread of bacteria. We no longer just deal with MRSA but every resistant pathogen that has the potential to threaten human and animal health.”  

Related websites
www.thebellamossfoundation.com
www.veterinarynursetrainingpnline.org
http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/diseases/atoz/zoonoses/mrsa.htm