Our Research Outputs

The McEachran Institute generates forward-thinking research and guidance to address emerging global health challenges. Below are select presentations and publications grouped by key thematic areas.

How We’re Contributing

  • Polysolutions for a Polycrisis

    Inspiring transformative changes to accelerate and amplify innovations to protect health for all species and generations, making policies more impactful, sustainable, and equitable.

    Recent Projects

    • Harbour Health – a community based project in association with the Ucluelet Aquarium

    • Developing a Climate Change and Sustainability Fellowship curriculum for the Government of Belize

    • Building transdisciplinary capacity to enhance pandemic preparedness in Trinidad and Tobago. 2026.

    Example Presentations

    • Invited Lecture. If One Health is the solution, what is the problem? Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Ottawa

    • Invited Public Lecture. Climates of Health: The Weather Inside Us. Climates of Health: The Whether Inside Us. University of Alberta Climate and health Hub

    • Keynote lecture. The need for disruptive thinking to confront the global polycrisis. International Symposium of the World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians

    • Climate change and aquatic animal health. Western Fish Diseases Conference

    Example Publications

    • Strengthening ties with public health for joint action on global health threats – Part 2. Canadian Veterinary Journal

    • Prevent, Protect, Restore: Using the Global Biodiversity Framework to Guide Veterinary Education. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.

    • From commitment to action: lessons from 18 transdisciplinary projects addressing health risks in wildlife trade. One Health Outlook

  • Closing the Intention-to-Doing Gap

    Catalyzing expertise, information, and ideas into actions to protect animals, health, and society in a rapidly changing future.

    Recent Projects

    • Creating a framework for implementation science to reduce risks in the wildlife trade

    • Consulting on innovations in education and mentoring to foster a new generation of change agents

    • Promoting forward-looking perspectives to create interspecies and intergenerational health equity

    • Developing a strategic plan for Hawaiian Monk Seal conversation using a population health perspective.

    • Strategic development of a continuum of care approach to marine mammal health stewardship

    • Identifying and mobilizing best practice in One Health leadership in the Caribbean

    • Fostering disruptive and innovative One Health research in Environment and Climate Change Canada

    Example Presentations

    • Invited lecture. Evolution or revolution: Addressing antimicrobial resistance in livestock. Sparkman Center for Global health. University of Alabama.

    • The need for more CARs in wildlife health. Consequences, Action, Reverence. Inaugural Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Honorary Lecturer

    • Why building a network makes sense for wildlife health protection. Closing ceremony WOAH twinning program, Mahidol University. Bangkok.

    • A framework to implement evidence-based interventions to reduce health risks in the wildlife trade. European Wildlife Disease Association.

    • Developing networks of Caribbean Leaders/Agents of Change in Climate Change and Health. Caribbean SIDS Workshop

    Example Publications

    • Innovating for One Health: federal perspectives and key lessons on building integrative programs for wildlife in Canada. One Health Outlook

    • Rethinking a health approach to Ocean One Health. CABI One Health

    • A Data–Information–Knowledge–Wisdom Framework for Solving Complex One Health Problems. In. Principles of One Health for a Better Planet

    • The implementation gap in emerging disease risk management in the wildlife trade. Journal of Wildlife Diseases

  • Future-Readying

    Cultivating people and policies that can respond flexibly to uncertainty, adapt to change, and make informed decisions.

    Recent Projects

    • Reconceptualizing the relationship between health, resilience and conservation. Bonn Convention

    • Climate change and health leadership training in the Caribbean

    • Exploring opportunities in public health policy to protect, restore and regenerate ecosystems

    • Exploring best practices for future-ready mentoring in a polycrisis

    Example Presentations

    • Lessons from the field for future readiness in an era of polycrisis. Inaugural Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Honorary Lecturer

    • The wildlife health renaissance. Why now? Association of Fish and Wildlife Health agencies

    • Applying a Continuum of Care Framework to Convention on Migratory Species Resolutions: Strategic Opportunities for Wildlife Health Management. Wildlife Disease Association Annual Conference

    • One Health is over 20 years old. What next?. EU Association of Science and Health Writers

    • One Health – Friend or foe for conservation? (Plenary). Missouri Natural Resources Conference

    • Can we transition to actionable intelligence that promotes wildlife health? The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Kentucky

    • Situating ‘the environment’ in One Health. Health Science Forum, Ottawa

    • One Health in the Anthropocene – A Call for Transformative Change. Erasmus Mundus International Seminar

    Example Publications

    • Imagining veterinary medicine and education in 2040. Canadian Veterinary Journal

    • Ecosystem Health and the need for Clinical Ecology. Canadian Veterinary Journal

    • The continuum of care as a unifying framework for intergenerational and interspecies health equity. Frontiers in Public Health

    • A reimagined One Health framework for wildlife conservation. Research Directions: One Health

    • Reflections on One Health leadership training needs for the 21st century. One Health

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