In late March, volunteers from the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine traveled to Covelo, California for another weekend of compassionate, community-centered veterinary care through the Covelo Clinic. Entirely volunteer-run, the clinic brings together veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary technicians/assistants, undergraduate students, and local community members to improve access to vital veterinary care in this underserved rural community.
The UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine was honored to welcome Dr. William B. Karesh as the 2026 speaker for the Calvin Schwabe Lectureship, an annual event recognizing leaders whose work embodies the interdisciplinary spirit of One Health.
Author of the iconic memoir Appointments at the Ends of the World and widely regarded as a pioneer of the modern One Health movement, Karesh is recognized for helping introduce the term “One Health” to a broader audience in a 2003 Washington Post interview, where he stated:
Beavers have been engineering healthy waterways for thousands of years. Now scientists are learning from them and building "beaver dam analogs" (BDAs) in pursuit of improving stream habitats. BDAs mimic natural dams to slow streams, restore habitat, and even improve water quality.
We’re so proud to celebrate Dr. Woutrina Smith and Dr. Brian Bird, two extraordinary leaders of the UC Davis One Health Institute, as recipients of the 2026 Emil M. Mrak International Impact Award! Dr.
Understanding where and why whales travel can mean the difference between survival and extinction. But for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, gathering that information has long posed a dilemma: how do you collect the data needed to reduce threats like entanglements, vessel strikes, and climate-driven habitat shifts without compromising animal welfare?
More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the continent. That is confirmed for the first time in a study led by Erasmus MC in The Netherlands and the University of California, Davis. It published this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
This month, we’re proud to have been selected to launch TWO Crowdfund UC Davis campaigns, each focused on removing barriers and expanding opportunity, in our local community and far beyond it!
Accessible Veterinary Care is raising funds to help remove financial barriers to lifesaving veterinary care for pets whose families are facing hardship.
When I took over leadership of the UC Davis One Health Institute (OHI) in 2020, the world was standing at the crossroads of crisis and possibility. Stepping into this role at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the end of our very successful PREDICT program, meant learning to lead a team already stretched by uncertainty and the shifting landscape of a “new normal.” Over the past five years, and especially throughout 2025, the OHI has navigated pressures that would have tested any organization. At every turn, we adapted. We pivoted.
OSLO, SEP 4 —Global health and pandemic experts are banding together to combine their AI programmes and infectious disease knowledge to more accurately rank the viruses that have the potential to cause the next deadly pandemic.
In early July, the 2025 Rx One Health Field Institute wrapped up its 8th year of programming! Over the course of two weeks, 25 participants from 13 countries immersed themselves in One Health experiential learning across some of California’s most remarkable ecosystems.
When Dr. Ernesto Rojas Sánchez first heard about UC Davis, he was a third-year veterinary student at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA-CR). That’s when Dr. Pat Conrad, at the time the Associate Dean for Global Programs at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, visited his university to give a series of talks on infectious diseases in California and the One Health approach. Her presentation, which included research on toxoplasmosis in marine mammals and a roundtable discussion “Imagine what you can do and contribute as a veterinarian”, left a lasting impression.
June 19 marks World Albatross Day, organized by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP), to raise awareness about the growing threats to albatrosses and petrels worldwide. This year’s theme focuses on the devastating impact of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) on these already vulnerable seabirds.
We're excited to announce a new collaboration between Siguiendo Ballenas — a southern right whale monitoring project we support through our Latin America program — and the global Blue Corridors initiative, which works to protect whale migratory routes around the world.
Four critically endangered female eastern lowland gorillas (also known as Grauer’s gorillas) rescued from the illegal wildlife trade have been reintroduced to the wild in Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The gorillas will provide a critical genetic boost to a small, isolated population of gorillas living on Mt. Tshiaberimu.
