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One Health: Connections and Collaborations
President's Dream Colloquium
Spring 2024
Human health isn’t just about humans. Our health is intimately and inextricably interconnected with the health of our local and global ecosystems and our planet. By mapping connections among people, animals, and environments, “One Health” reveals opportunities to prevent, prepare for, and respond to emerging and ongoing health threats. This concept isn’t new. It is rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, and recognizes that health threats such as infectious diseases, environmental pollution, and climate change are shared across species, geographies, and generations.
The World Health Organization says, “'One Health' is an integrated, unifying approach to balance and optimize the health of people, animals and the environment. It is particularly important to prevent, predict, detect, and respond to global health threats such as the COVID- 19 pandemic.”
At a time of simultaneous crises, “One Health” has been identified as a research priority by Canada’s Chief Medical Officer. Given that urbanization, globalization, deforestation, and agricultural intensification are increasing and exacerbating health harms, now more than ever, we need innovative “One Health” approaches.
The Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS) is a new SFU research institute, approved by Senate in December 2022. Our mission is to strengthen BC’s capability to prepare for and respond to major infectious disease events. This President’s Dream Colloquium explores interconnected global health through a One Health lens. We have chosen topics that reflect PIPPS’ Vision and Mission to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to major infectious disease events”, and have extended this focus to encompass intersecting and urgent health risks such as pollution and climate change.
Featured topics include:
- Introduction to One Health
- Climate change
- Environmental pollution
- Disease modelling and prediction
- Social inequities and health
- Knowledge mobilization
All President's Dream Colloquiums
The President's Dream Colloquium on One Health: Connections and Collaborations is generously funded by:
Thank you to Graduate Studies for the administrative work.
Questions
If you have any questions about the Colloquium administration, please email Graduate Studies.