Archive for October 2019
Preliminary programme for the 5th OHA Symposium
There’s just six weeks until the 5th One Health Aotearoa Symposium in Wellington on 10-11 December. The OHA Symposium Organising Committee is excited to release the preliminary programme which covers the big One Health issues affecting New Zealand and further afield. The symposium features nine sessions including a poster session on the evening of 10 December.…
Read MoreWellington children part of global research to develop universal flu vaccine
Mothers and infants in the Wellington region are set to play an important role in global research to develop a universal flu vaccine. ESR researchers are currently seeking pregnant women in Wellington to participate in the study to see how their child’s first exposure to the flu virus, influences their immune response throughout life. The…
Read MoreArticle: Why don’t New Zealand farmers want to look after their golden goose?
Freshwater ecologist Professor Russell Death was written a piece for The Spinoff this week explaining that if New Zealand wants to assure export and tourism markets that we are actually a clean sustainable country, then we actually have to prove it. Russell is a member of the One Health Aotearoa Management Group and co-leads our…
Read MoreNew Zealand could be lifeboat to save humanity from extinction in a catastrophic pandemic, researchers say
New Zealand, Australia and Iceland could act as island refuges to save humanity from extinction in the event of a catastrophic global pandemic, researchers have found. The researchers, from the University of Otago, Wellington and Adapt Research, have ranked 20 island nations which could act as refuges from which large-scale technological society could be rebuilt.…
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