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
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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
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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
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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