Climate Change
Inspiring transformative changes to accelerate and amplify innovations to protect health for all species and generations and make polices more impactful, sustainable, and equitable.
What are we doing
Promoting climate change adaption action in animal health and education
Advocating for new ways to think about animal health in a world of unprecedented climate change
Building capacity in health professionals to protect health
Some of our outputs
Presentations
2023. Climate change and aquatic animal health. Western Fish Diseases Conference
2022. Panelist – Climate change and emerging infectious diseases. COP 27. United Nations Climate Change Conference.
2022. Climate Change and Health. A One Health Perspective. Joint Environmental Public Health & Veterinary Public Health Conference. Jamaica
2022. Climate change and animal health: the persistent pandemic. Canadian Council of Chief Veterinary Officers.
2021. Animal health and climate change – the need for an action agenda. Colorado State University Webinar.
Publications
2023. Strengthening ties with public health for joint action on global health threats. Part 2. The Canadian veterinary journal
2021. The implications of climate change for veterinary services. Sci Tech Rev 40(2)
Closing the Intention-to-Doing Gap
Catalyzing expertise, information and ideas into actions to protect animals, health, and society in a rapidly changing future.
What are we doing
Ctreating a framework for implementation science to reduce risks in the wildlife trade
Strategic advice and consultation on innovations in education and mentoring to foster and new generation of change agents
Promoting a vision of forward-looking perspectives to create interspecies and intergenerational health equity
Working with governments and universities in Canada, USA, Thailand and the Caribbean to find inventive ways to inspire proactive programs to protect health for all
Some of our outputs
Presentations
2021. The urgency for implementation research in One Health. Veterinary Public Health Institute Webinar. Bern
2021. Developing networks of Caribbean Leaders / Agents of Change in Climate Change and Health. Climate change and health in small island developing states – Focus on the Caribbean
Publications
2022. The implementation gap in emerging disease risk management in the wildlife trade. J Wildl Dis.
2022. Using communication networks to assess the level of sharing of wildlife health data and information among wildlife professionals in Ontario, Canada. Human Dimensions of Wildlife
2022. Perspectives on opportunities for WOAH standards and guidelines to better address wildlife health. Report to the World Animal Health Organization
Future-readying
Cultivating people and policies that can respond flexibly to changing circumstances, who can make informed decisions in the face of change and uncertainty, and who can adapt to rapid change
What are we doing
Working with partners to explore new ways to engender future -ready thinking in early career professionals
Advising and collaborating with international and national partners to advocate for and provide arguments to inspire a new vision of wildlfie health
Supporting the creation of graduate programs that create future-ready population health practitioners
Helping shape a new international vision of wildlife health that reflect the unprecedented challenges animals face
Some of our outputs
Presentations
2023. One Health- Friend or foe for conservation (Plenary). Missouri Natural Resources Conference.
2023. Can we transition to actionable intelligence that promotes wildlife health? The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. Louisville, Kentucky
2022. One Health for an uncertain future. (Keynote) Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association.
2022. Future-readying wildlife health knowledge systems (Keynote). US Department of Interior wildlife health workshop. Virginia.
2022. Situating ‘the environment’ in One Health. Health Science Forum. Ottawa
2021. One Health in the Anthropocene- A Call for Transformative Change. Erasmus Mundus International One Health Seminar.
Publications
2024. Imagining veterinary medicine and education in 2040. Canadian Veterinary Journal.
2024. Ecosystem Health and the need for Clinical Ecology. Canadian Veterinary Journal
2023. The continuum of care as a unifying framework for intergenerational and interspecies health equity. Frontiers in Public Health.
2023. A reimagined One Health framework for wildlife conservation. Research Directions: One Health.
2021 Reflections on One Health leadership training needs for the 21st century. One Health