Our 5th One Health Aotearoa Symposium was held at the University of Otago Wellington on 10-11 December 2019, and brought together researchers of diverse backgrounds to discuss infectious diseases and other health hazards affecting humans, animals and the environment. A focus of One Health Aotearoa is to break down silos and barriers to facilitate trans-disciplinary research.…

OHA investigator Shahista Nisa from Massey University’s Infectious Diseases Research Centre (IDReC) has been in a New Zealand Herald article on leptospirosis. Dr Nisa is currently leading a study to investigate the emerging sources and pathways for leptospirosis, with the aim to measure the severity of the disease in New Zealanders, how long it lasts…

Tracking the sources of freshwater contamination will soon be a lot quicker and more accurate with the completion of successful field trials of a new DNA-based tracer technology. A team led by ESR scientist Dr Liping Pang has developed DNA tracers that have undergone successful field trials in groundwater, surface water and soil. Dr Pang,…