One Health Aotearoa Management Group member Professor Michael Baker, from the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington has won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize. Professor Baker has been New Zealand’s ‘go-to’ science expert on COVID-19 since the earliest days of the pandemic, racking up more than 2,000 media interviews…

OHA investigator Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles is New Zealander of the Year after explaining the science of the Covid-19 pandemic to this country and sometimes the world. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern presented the award, 2021 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa, at a gala dinner in Auckland on 31 March.…

Dr Alison Mather from the Quadram Institute in the United Kingdom has been granted a prestigious international partnership award to build collaborations with One Health Aotearoa investigators in New Zealand. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the UK has funded the four year programme, which fall within their Global Highlight area of…