Cracking One Health

Dr. Cheryl Stroud is the Executive Director of One Health Commission and has been leading this organization since 2013. The Commission aims to connect One Health stakeholders with each other, to create strategic partnerships and to educate about One Health issues. Apart from telling us all about the One Health Commission and its future plans, Dr. Cheryl Stroud, also shares in this episode, her adv...

Dr. Elena Sassu is a Post Doc at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vetmeduni in Vienna. She worked in several projects aiming to improve pig health and is currently leading the Work Package on Health Management within the European project EU PiG. On this episode, we speak about the recent news concerning the shutdown of several slaughterhouses around the world due to the covid-19 pandemia. Th...

Dr. Steven Osofsky is a Professor of wildlife health and health policy at Cornell University and also the Director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Center. His vast experience with wildlife in Southern Africa is the main focus of our conversation. We talk about the complex relationship between wildlife and agriculture in this region and how the project "Beyond Fences", in which the AHEAD g...

Dr. Deborah Thomson tells us about OneHealthLessons.com, a project that intends to teach One Health to children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 18. During the interview, we also talk about the role of Education in the One Health approach and the huge need to progress in this direction. Also, Dr. Thomson shares with us how to get access to the online classes and how to get involved and supp...

Dr. Eric Fèvre is a Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the University of Liverpool, and now is appointed at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. The research group lead by Dr. Eric is composed by 25 researchers that come from different background and nationalities. His research has been focused on emerging diseases with a focus on zoonoses and particularly...

Dr. Juan Lubroth takes us on his journey from becoming a wildlife Veterinarian to being Veterinary Chief Officer at FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation). As a wildlife Veterinarian, Dr. Juan Lubroth attended and is a co-author of the "Manhattan Principles", which formalized the One Health concept in 2004. His knowledge in Public Health and One Health is immense and his perspectives on...

Dr. Anna van Heeckeren is a Veterinarian and started her career doing research for cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease which affects the lungs and only occurs in humans; she brought her comparative biology mindset and could support the research team with a lot of knowledge from Veterinary medicine. After 15 years working on a human disease and many years of involvement in philanthropy, Dr. Anna sta...