Building on the successes of our previous symposia, we are bringing together infectious diseases scientists and professionals from the fields of human, animal and environmental health in order to address priority One Health issues such as emerging infectious diseases, water quality and antibiotic resistance.
Science Media Savvy Express offers one-on-one training for researchers to improve the way they communicate key ideas from their work with the wider public.
They provide a supportive environment with helpful feedback from experienced media professionals. As an added bonus, participants receive a professionally edited video clip of highlights from their session, which they are free to reuse as they choose.
An ideal opportunity for busy researchers seeking practical advice on giving effective media interviews.
Individual sessions run for 15 minutes throughout the day on THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER ONLY and are free of charge for eligible New Zealand-based researchers.
Spaces are limited — advance sign up required.
Research Leader, Quadram Institute, United Kingdom
Alison is an epidemiologist who studies the evolution, origins and transmission of bacteria between different host populations, using a combination of approaches from epidemiology, ecology and genomics. Her particular research focus is on bacteria that are resistant to antimicrobial drugs, and in understanding the relative contributions of animals, humans, the environment and food to the overall burden of bacterial disease and antimicrobial resistance.
Alison is a Research Leader at Quadram Institute Bioscience in Norwich, UK and a Food Standards Agency Fellow.
Chair of Water Science, Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Australia
Ross is a freshwater ecologist with interests in the study of biodiversity and the restoration of landscapes. His fundamental research is in food web ecology; seeking the rules that determine how natural communities assemble and persist. His applied research addresses the ways in which food webs can be influenced by anthropogenic factors including urbanisation, land clearance, pharmaceutical contamination, river flow diversion and restoration, and invasion. He has an active research program on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem function in urban and rural landscapes.
Ross has published more than 100 papers, 10 book chapters and more than 200 scientific reports. He sits on the Australian Research Council College of Experts and has recently stepped down from the New Zealand Marsden Panel. His work has strong links to government and industry, and Ross sits on a number of senior technical advisory panels for local, state and federal research programs.
NHMRC Fellow, Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Australia
Colleen is a clinician with expertise in travel medicine and tropical medicine. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, emerging infectious diseases, environmental health, spatial epidemiology, travel vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis, tropical medicine, and the impact of global environmental change on infectious diseases.
Colleen has a particular interest in the eco-epidemiology of leptospirosis, and the impact of global environmental change (including climate change, flooding, population growth, urbanisation, agricultural intensification, and biodiversity loss) on the transmission dynamics of this disease. Her work has included eco-epidemiology studies and risk mapping of leptospirosis in American Samoa, Fiji, and Queensland. She was also engaged as a WHO consultant to help develop Fiji’s National Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Leptospirosis.
Another special research interest is lymphatic filariasis elimination in the Pacific Islands, to determine the most effective strategies for managing the endgame of the global disease elimination program. Colleen is currently leading an operational research project on lymphatic filariasis elimination in Samoa, in collaboration with the Taskforce for Global Health, CDC Atlanta, and the Samoa Ministry of Health.
(Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa)
Senior Environmental Scientist, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Garth’s background is in land resource mapping and assessment, GIS applications and environmental databases, and indigenous values and knowledge research.
Garth is a key researcher in designing and using integrated knowledge systems, frameworks, and models for decision-making, planning and policy, bridging mātauranga Māori and western science, working with Māori communities and organisations, central and local government organisations, building Māori research capability and capacity, and has extensive experience and skills in environmental planning and resource management across Aotearoa-New Zealand and internationally.
Garth has led over 50 Māori/science projects and consultancies, presented over 100 conference and workshop presentations, and authored about 100 refereed publications.
The 4th One Health Aotearoa Symposium will be held at:
Nordmeyer Theatre
University of Otago, Wellington
23 Mein Street
Newtown, Wellington
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