Cambridge University One Health

Michaelmas Term Events

(2025-2026)

Our term card is here!…

one health and the society

The concept

One health is a growing mission to integrate multiple disciplines on a local, national and global scale to optimise health for people, animals and the environment. Crossing the boundaries between medical, veterinary and environmental care can maximally advance the progression of global health

Useful links about one health:
Government Veterinary Service blog
International Student One Health Alliance
UC Davis One Health blog

CUOHS Committee 2025-2026

Athena Ganesh

Co-President

I first became interested in One health after reading David Quammen’s Spillover at school and ever since have been fascinated by how understanding animal heath and disease can be paramount to identifying the threats posed by emerging infectious diseases.

Monica Simpson

Co-President

Dogs can be trained to detect certain diseases in humans including some cancers, malaria and COVID-19!

Rebecca Scott

Secretary

Over 60% of infectious diseases in humans originate from wildlife. Being a vet student and working with animals has shown me how their health directly affects people and the environment. Healthier animals and ecosystems means healthier and happier humans too!

Tabby MacLachlan

Publicity Officer

I’m especially interested in the importance of One Health in pandemic prevention and the expanding interface between wildlife, domestic species, and humans.

Gabrielle Rodner

Logistics Officer

I have been drawn to the One Health concept ever since exploring antibiotic resistance in my EPQ, viewing it as a unified approach key to tackling future global health challenges.

Previous Committees

2024-2025

Co-Presidents: Joanna Vieira O’Neill & Eisah Suleman
Vice President: Katherine Heylen
Treasurer: Monica Simpson
Communications Officer: Athena Ganesh
Publicity Officer: Martha Rushbrooke
Secretary: Kelly Kwok Man Yu

2023-2024

President: Kelly Chan
Treasurer: Linda Tang
Logistics Officer: Karsa Ambikaibakan
Communications Officer: Louisa Yapp
Publicity Officer: Martha Rushbrooke
Secretary: Lily Sneddon

2022-2023

President: Sammie Lam
Vice President: Kelly Chan
Junior Treasurer: Rachel Barham
Communications Officer: Louisa Yapp
Publicity Officer: Joanna Vieira O’Neill
Secretary: Ellie Connell

2021-2022

President: Laura Simpsom
Vice president: Sze Lynn Yuen
Junior treasurer: Toby Corrigan
Logistics Officer: Kelly Chan
Communications Officer: Vanessa Tsang
Publicity Officer: Alexandra Davies
Secretary: Zuzanna Klikowicz

2020-2021

President: Susannah Simpson
Vice president: Sanaa Cockar
Junior treasurer: Tash Schwartz
Logistics Officer: Laura Simpson
Communications Officer: Bilal Amin
Publicity Officer: Sammie Lam
Secretary: Rachel Ibbott

2019-2020

President: Alex Sampson
Vice president: Susannah Simpson
Junior treasurer: Sarah Cox
Logistics Officer: Emily Bedborough
Communications Officer: Dorottya Nagy
Publicity Officer: Tash Schwartz
Secretary: Emily Neve

2018-2019

President: Jennifer Simpson
Vice president: Alexander Mok
Junior treasurer: Susannah Simpson
Logistics Officer: Sarah Bate
Communications Officer: Sarah Cox
Publicity Officer: Frances Hamblin

PAST EVENTS

Our 2019 conference had a diverse line-up of speakers with Dr David Edwards discussing the role of PHE in tracing food-borne diseases with first hand case studies and Dr Mukesh Kumar brinding a facinating perspective on waste within the food industry from the persepective of an engineer, and subsequent environmental impacts of this. Anthony Ridge and Peter Moore, both with roles in the APHA jointly presented a talk on the role of government vets in One Health. Finally, Dr Giles Yeo gave an engaging presentation on the truth behind human diet, and the link between genetics and food types in determining human health.

From Farm to Fork – CUOHS conference 2nd February 2019

Our final event of Michaelmas term 2018 was a panel debate focused on the rising issue of antimicrobial resistance. Thanks to our speakers Dr David Summers, Dr Martin Welch and Paul Green, and our actively participating audience we had a insightful discussion of the issue from many different viewpoints. Due to the success of this, we hope to run similar style events in the future, and hopefully you will join us.

Resisting the resistance – 2nd November 2018

The beginning of Michaelmas 2018 started with a focus on rabies with a talk by Mission Rabies intern Clara Buxbaum and Professor James Wood, an infectious disease epidemiologist and Head of the Cambridge University Department of Veterinary Medicine. We heard about the rabies rhabdovirus itself, its epidemiology and how, despite causing over 60,000 deaths per year, it is completely preventable through methods such as canine vaccination, education and surveillance. Thank you to Mission Rabies for helping us organise such an interesting event!

The Battle Against Rabies – 27th September 2018

A mini-conference, held in Clare College, was the highlight of the One Health Lent Term calendar. Our speakers showcased the breadth of opportunity under the One Health umbrella: Simon Hall from the Animal and Plant Health Agency, David Edwards from the East of England Public Health Protection Team and, from the University of Cambridge itself, Milorad Radakovic from the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Andrew Conlan from the Dynamic Diseases Unit, Frances Henson, a veterinary surgeon heavily involved with orthopaedics research at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Raymond Bujdoso, principle investigator of a prion group. With students attending from across many different disciplines and visiting from the Royal Veterinary College, this was a great chance for connections to be made and for everyone to learn from each others very different perspectives. Thanks to the Veterinary Public Health Association for their generous support in helping this event to take place!

The Future of Care… a Future we Share- One Health Careers and Networking Day- 27th January 2018

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