Cambridge University One Health

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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 2021-2022

Laura Simpson

President

Laura is a 3rd year Biological Natural Science student who is particularly interested in the importance of insects in our ecosystem. Laura’s favorite one health fact is: Diseases affecting key pollinators such as bees are having a huge impact on food security and biodiversity.

Sze Lynn Yuen

Vice president

Sze Lynn is a 4th year studying veterinary medicine at Girton College. She likes One Health because One Health is an interdisciplinary concept that requires collaboration between scientists, medical and veterinary professionals, and the cooperation and the sharing of knowledge between these main groups of individuals can lead to better understanding and prevention of the spread of disease.

Toby Corrigan

Treasurer

Toby is a 5th Year student studying Veterinary Medicine at St Edmunds. The reason he is interested in One Health: ‘It’s a straightforward way to do good for the world that encompasses three of my interests: welfare, ecology, and disease.’

Kelly Chan

Logistics Officer

Kelly is a 2nd Year student studying Medicine at Murray Edwards. Her favorite One health fact is: During labour babies’ guts are rapidly colonized by bacteria from their mother’s gut

Vanessa Tsang

Communications Officer

Nessa is a 4th year student studying Veterinary Medicine at Downing. Nessa is particularly interested in the origin of new or emerging infectious diseases in humans, especially considering 3/4 of them originate from animals.

Alexandra Davies

Publicity Officer

Alex is a 3rd year Veterinary medicine student studying at Magdalene College. She is particularly interested in how collaboration between groups of people can have real impact on the planet. An example of this is the eradication of Rinderpest in 2001 which has saved millions of cows and buffalo and therefore helped to prevent famine.

Zuzanna Klikowicz

Secretary

Zuzanna is a 5th Year studying Veterinary Medicine at Jesus College. Zuzanna is Especially interested in using the One Health approach during disaster responses and health emergencies.

Previous committee: 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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