One Health Wednesdays

One Health Wednesdays is back after a year hiatus, continuing its mission to spotlight impactful work in One Health. This season opener features Dr. Julia Zammit as guest host, giving our regular host, Dr. Ginger Dixon, a chance to sit in the expert chair and share her own story and recent achievements. Ginger dives into her groundbreaking doctoral capstone project, where she developed a scalable...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Janelle Jiminez and Kayley McCubbin are champions of One Health through the University of Calgary’s AMR - One Health Consortium. They share how the Consortium provides outreach, training, and a chance for One Health projects to take their research further to communicate to the publi...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Daniel Williamson is an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical entomologist who has focused his work and research on researching and surveilling mosquito-borne diseases. He discusses how he became intrigued with microbiology and pathogens and has fulfilled both of his childho...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Hayley Yaglom is a One Health Genomics Epidemiologist who started in One Health from a young age before she even knew it was One Health. She talks about her path into One Health, starting with exploring the science behind the human-animal bond at the University of Missouri, working...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Liza Leclerc is an international thought leader who has brought twenty years of experience in sustainable development to bring solutions to mitigate and build resilience to climate change, including her current work with Stantec. She shares her inspiration for her work, how we can u...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Neil Vora is a physician, medical epidemiologist, and Pandemic Prevention Fellow at Conservation International. In this episode, Dr. Vora underscores the importance of addressing conservation and preservation of biodiversity as an important component of pandemic prevention and h...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Kirk Douglas is the Director of the Centre for Biosecurity Studies at the University of the West Indies in the Carribean. He discusses his journey in One Health studying zoonotic diseases such as hantavirus, West Nile Virus, dengue, and avian influenza; the challenges and reward...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Niti Jadeja is a post-doc researcher with the University of Virginia in genomics and molecular biology who is driven by her mission to spark innovation across complex challenges and share One Health with the globe. She shares the insight she has gained through work with zoonoses...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Krista Howden is a One Health Scientific Advisor, Epidemiologist, and founder of One Health Scientific Solutions. In this episode, she navigates the complex challenges of bringing awareness to One Health, thinking about diseases in One Health outside of zoonoses and vector-borne dis...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Kate Sulzner is a wildlife veterinarian, One Health specialist, and Director of EcoVet Global. Kate describes her journey into One Health as she married her two loves of veterinary medicine and conservation biology. Today, she works in STEM and conservation education at Curiodys...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. This week we’ve done a special recap of professional development advice offered by our first five guests in case you’ve missed them. To hear more: Episode 1 Deborah Sateler: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep1/ Episode 2 Thomas Julian Irabor and Julia Zammit: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep2/ Epis...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Rolayo Emmanuel is a Medical Parasitologist in Nigeria who studies neglected tropical diseases such as trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis. She discusses her observations of season and climate changes in the parasite and it tse tse fly host, challenges with safety and education, and...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Mariana Delgado is a veterinarian in France who works in wildlife health. She takes a One Health perspective in her work which has included experience with the Ministry of Peru working on conservation and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, formerly OIE) on prevention an...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Sabin Liulea is a marine biologist in Spain who used his love of the ocean to pursue studies in marine biology. His work on relationships between seaweed, urchins, and climate highlights how One Health is just as important for marine environments as it is on land. Learn more as he d...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dauda Onawola, a veterinarian in One Health and founder of DVMPlus, shares his philosophy and definition of One Health as well as his goals and work at DVMPlus in veterinary inclusion in One Health, One Health program design, and action-based advocacy. Projects such as #OHDaily and...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Chanchal Bhattacharya is a public health veterinarian with the Government of Delhi with a wealth of experiences to share in zoonotic surveillance, animal husbandry, and policy and planning. He shares lessons learned from avian influenza outbreaks in India, interdisciplinary planning...

Physician, author, researcher, educator, health policy researcher, and co-founder of One Health Initiative – Laura Kahn is a woman of many hats who brings diverse experience and education to the One Health table. She shares her insight on the evolution of One Health, global security including bioterrorism and zoonoses, and needs for improvement of health-thinking and systems, anthropology of food...

Maryam Zakariya speaks to her professional development experiences as a student in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ilorin. She has served as the President of the International Veterinary Students’ Association there and has served in multiple other associations contributing to One Health including the International Student One Health Alliance as the Africa continent representative, the Wor...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Konstantinos Makris is an Associate Professor at the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health at the Cyprus University of Technology. He discusses his background in environmental chemistry, his work with the University of Texas San Antonio, and his work sta...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Mabel Ortiz De Leo is a physician in Mexico who studied in antimicrobial resistance at The University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and has seen the devastating consequences of antimicrobial resistance firsthand. She talks about her work in sexually transmitted and infectio...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. We welcome wildlife biologist Mouliraj Jaivelu from India who has combined his background in zoology, biotechnology, and epidemiology to create a truly unique skill set that reflects the interdisciplinary principles of One Health. Mouliraj discusses his work in snakebite prevention...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Noel Miranda is a veterinarian and independent consultant from the Philippines. He is a regional advisor for public health emergencies and One Health with ASEAN and vast experience working with other organizations such as the Ministry Department of Health in the Philippines and...

Nitya is a veterinarian with a specialization in veterinary surgery. She has been working on issues related to development and the environment since 1986. She is one of the founders of Anthra and presently its Director. Her work includes research, training and policy advocacy on different aspects of livestock development, especially on systems of health care as well as planning for gender-sensitiv...

Monal Daptardar is a veterinarian and One Health Practitioner joining us from India. Early in her career, Monal made a last-minute decision to switch to public health from clinical medicine. She walks us through her experiences in One Health and infectious disease, discussing challenges and needs she has observed including vector and host solutions for zoonotic diseases, the inclusion of additiona...

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Julia Zammit and Dr. Thomas Julian Irabor share their work in Game Based Learning 4, or GBL4 to use game-based learning to tackle antibiotic resistance and other issues in One Health. They describe how the group’s process of integrating systems-thinking principles, subject matte...