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The OHI-led One Health Workforce-Next Generation project was highlighted in a White House briefing last week on the one year anniversary of the Biden-Harris Global Health Worker Initiative:

It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our dear mentor and colleague Professor Rudovick Kazwala passed away on April 3, 2023.

When the Endangered Species Act was passed 50 years ago, some of the world's most iconic animals were on the brink of extinction. We are proud to be highlighted with our fellow University of California colleagues around the state and across the globe for our collective efforts to save endangered species.

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In partnership with several collaborators including Smithonian Institution we published a computer simulation of what could happen if mountain gorillas got Ebola virus. There was an outbreak in humans in 2018 in DR Congo not far from Virunga National Park, so we know the virus is present in the region and gorillas are susceptible to the disease. Fortunately, this was just a theoretical exercise and the mountain gorillas remain Ebola-free.

The survival of critically endangered Rhinoceros populations across Africa requires a multidisciplinary approach to mitigate disease threats, reduce poaching, increase breeding populations, and the preserve and expand wildland habitats.

With heavy hearts and endless rain in California that mirrors our tears, we say goodbye to our dear friend, leader, and One Health mentor Matthew Patrick Blake. Matt, for those that worked with him, that connected with him, and who quickly became friends (all of us), was an inspiration and a role model. He was a founder of the UC Davis One Health Institute, my close friend and constant critic, my mentor, my challenger, and he played similar roles with all of our UC Davis staff, faculty, students, and international collaborators.

Is Chile California’s home away from home? I visited Santiago, Chile again in Feb 2023, and once again felt strong synergies across the people and the places that have so much in common…it struck me that we share similar climates, similar crops, similar coasts, similar mountains, similar music, similar passions, to those we find in California… just in opposite hemispheres of our world.

OHI Research Faculty Dr. Pranav Pandit is leading a team as Principal Investigator - in collaboration with OHI colleagues Drs. Brian Bird, Christine Kreuder Johnson, and Marcela Uhart - to develop climate-sensitive models for individual arenaviruses in close collaboration with regional public health experts in Africa and South America.

The Summer Work Experience Program is coordinated by the UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise at the UC Davis One Health Institute, in partnership with the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) Cooperative Extension and other host organizations.

Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023 & Sunday, February 26, 2023
Time: February 25, 2023 | 8:00 am - 5:30 pm (PDT)
February 26, 2023 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)
CE Credit: Up to 17 hours (pending approval)
Location: Hybrid: On-site and Live Interactive Webinar 

A parasitic disease, canine echinococcosis, has increased in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego province after a governmental dog deworming program was canceled in 2004, according to a study from the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute and School of Veterinary Medicine.

Professor Christine Kreuder Johnson in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine joins six other distinguished scientists and engineers who will serve as U.S. Science Envoys in 2023, the U.S. Department of State announced today (Dec. 6).

Myanmar is among the least studied but most heavily forested region in Asia, and CHIKV, ZIKV, DENV and JEV are highly endemic in humans. Scientists investigated whether Myanmar peri-urban primates, living near the largest urban city of Yangon, are exposed to arboviruses of public health concern and could be sources of spillover or recipients of spillback of human pathogenic arboviral diseases.

2022 limited edition Wildlife Disaster Network (WDN) shirt is available this week only! Get yours today - all orders placed this week will be shipped in time for delivery by Christmas.

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Brooke Genovese, a PhD candidate co-mentored by Drs. Brian Bird and Jonna Mazet, is one of 83 individuals in STEM disciplines selected by the Northern California Chapter of ARCS Foundation to receive an ARCS Scholar Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. This award recognizes excellence in research and exceptional promise to make a significant contribution to the advancement of science, and to the material and intellectual welfare of all people.