Piloting a framework to guide collaborative management of complex One Health issues at the wildlife, domestic animal and/or human interface.

A 2-year MSc opportunity, commencing in May 2020, is available in the Department of Population Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College. This position will be co-supervised by Drs. Jane Parmley and Cathy Bauman.  

The focus of this MSc will be to apply and evaluate a new tool kit outlining best practices and steps for putting a One Health approach into practice.

Review of applications will begin March 1st, 2021. Further details available on the Department's website.

Building resilience to tackle big health challenges

Epidemiologists can’t stop disasters like the next pandemic or antimicrobial resistance. Instead, we need to focus on the societal aspects of these issues. Ontario Veterinary College Prof. Jane Parmley is working to discover how to make our vulnerable populations – whether human, wildlife, or agricultural – more resilient, and how to make healthy decision-making easier. 

Learn how One Health helps achieve that goal here.

Lasting lemur conservation relies on multiple agents

Most people’s only exposure to lemurs is through the movie Madagascar, which doesn’t give an accurate representation of the endangerment they are facing and the way that their environments and interactions with humans contribute to this problem. Prof. Travis Steffens from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology is passionate about understanding these relationships.

Read about why One Health is necessary in his research here.

More songbirds may sing thanks to agricultural restoration

Songbird populations have been on the decline for the past fifty years, but a new integrated approach to the problem may help reverse this trend. Prof. Amy Newman from the Department of Integrative Biology has partnered with ALUS, an agricultural land restoration organization, to help improve songbird health and biodiversity.

Read more about this project here.

The two sides of the One Health coin: Research and pedagogy

The pandemic has demanded that many responsibilities be juggled at the same time, something that Ontario Veterinary College Prof. Katie Clow knows well as a leading tick research and One Health professor at Guelph.

Read about all she does for One Health at U of G here.

Cloud computing - and trust - needed for global disease research, says researcher

With the Global Burden of Animal Diseases project's official launch last week, we are so excited to highlight one of their key players - Guelph School of Computer Science Prof. Deborah Stacey!

Read the full story here.

Teamwork tackles troubling, complex health issue in rural Kenya

Pigs, poverty, and epilepsy. Likely not a combination that is clear to most but one that​ the Director of the One Health Institute and Ontario Veterinary College Prof. Cate Dewey spent over ten years studying in rural Kenya.

Read about how One Health was integral to Dewey's swine health research project here and watch her seminar presentation on the project.

Obesity debates ignoring disease complexity, researcher says

Losing weight may be a top New Year's resolution, but as University of Guelph Philosophy Prof. Gus Skorburg points out, lasting solutions must consider more than just the individual and their habits.

Read about the importance of One Health in Prof. Skorburg's research here.

On Tuesday 19th January 2021 The University of Liverpool and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) hosted the official launch of the GBADs Programme. The webinar celebrates the achievements of the GBADs collaborators to date and showcases the planned work of Programme as rollout phase begins. Watch the full launch webinar here.

Two U of G faculty play key roles in this Programme, Dr. Deborah Stacey from the School of Computer Science and Dr. Theresa Bernardo from the Department of Population Medicine. We had the pleasure of hearing from them in the Fall 2020 Seminar Series.

The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ) is hosting a Student Mentorship event throughout the winter semester months from January to April 2021. This is an opportunity for University of Guelph students to interact with different One Health professionals in academia, public health, and research sectors. The event will be virtual using Microsoft Teams and there is limited enrollment, so don't wait too long to register! For more information about this event and for registration please go to the CPHAZ website.

Drs. Scott Weese and Dorothee Bienzle from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph are recruiting Canadian veterinary clinic staff who have had COVID-19 themselves for a study to learn more about the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from people to their own pets (dogs, cats, ferrets). 

Find more information about the study here.

Faculty and Students! We want to hear from you! If you have any pictures, reflections, articles, etc. of you doing One Health research or studying One Health, we would love to feature it on our various communications platform.

Please fill out the short survey (~1 min.) here to provide resources, and to connect on Twitter.

You are always welcome to send us material, but the sooner the better!

Winter 2021 Seminar Series - Physical Distancing, School/Workplace Clsoure and COVID-19 Disease Burden in 2020: How Many Lives Did We Save?

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One Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference 2021

March 10 - 12, 2021 | Virtual

The Alberta Veterinary Medical Association (ABVMA) is excited to announce the One Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference presented by the ABVMA with funding support from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. The 2021 event follows the 2016 ABVMA One Health Antimicrobial Workshop and strives to continue the momentum following the success of the Western Canadian One Health AMS Conference held in Regina, SK, in January 2019.

Full details can be found on their website.

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Winter 2021 Seminar Series Schedule

We have an excellent line up of One Health researchers for our seminar series this semester. You won't want to miss it! Check out the poster below for more details!