OHA member awarded NZ Freshwater Sciences Society medal

View of a stream between paddocks

One Health Aotearoa Management Group member Professor Russell Death from Massey University was awarded the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society Medal at their annual meeting last week. The medal is the Society’s highest honour and recognises Russell’s outstanding services and contribution to freshwater science through his commitments to research, scientific publishing, teaching and communicating his…

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Call for pandemic research fund as “living memorial” to 1918 flu victims

Scale of the death toll of the 1918 pandemic recreated by Wellington College students

Professors from the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington are calling on the government to set up a research fund to help prevent pandemics and increase New Zealand’s preparedness to deal with such disasters. Professors Michael Baker and Nick Wilson are the co-authors of a study reviewing the 1918 pandemic, which…

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Predicting disease emergence from forest fragmentation

Dr David Wilkinson

A Massey University team has developed new ways of predicting disease-hot spots, created by humans changing the environment, to help identify where and how society can mitigate the risk of infectious disease emergence, such as Ebola Virus Disease in Africa. The paper, Habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and the risk of novel infectious disease emergence, details the…

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