Massey University Professor of Infectious Disease Ecology David Hayman has been selected alongside 25 other international experts to serve on the One Health High-Level Expert Panel to support worldwide organisations address issues of human, animal and ecosystem health. The World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Organisation for Animal Health, and United Nations Environment Programme (The Partners) have come together to…

Learn lessons from our COVID-19 response, or our health system could suffer the consequences. That’s the leading message from a group of five academics from the Universities of Otago, Canterbury and Massey, who say a failure to learn from this and previous outbreaks could result in a loss of time, knowledge and momentum for future…

Our autumn newsletter announces the dates of the 7th OHA Symposium (7-8 December 2021) in Wellington, highlights a research collaboration with Dr Alison Mather at the Quadram Institute in the UK, and shares information from the OHA Salmonella Bovismorbificans Workshop we hosted last month. View the OHA Autumn 2021 Newsletter.

Massey University Professor of Infectious Disease Ecology David Hayman has been a part of a team that has identified areas of the world that are at risk for new SARS-related coronavirus outbreaks. Professor Hayman worked alongside academics from the Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano) and University of California, Berkeley. He has previously worked…

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…

ESR Māori Impact Scientist Georgia Bell (Ngāti Maniapoto, Pare Hauraki and Ngāti Pu) has inspired pupils from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Perehuia in Mahia about the value of science, by working with them to develop books conveying important water quality testing protocols that will help improve the health of local awa (rivers). The…

OHA Investigator Garth Harmsworth and OHA International Advisory Group member Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes have both been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi as Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows. Being made a Fellow is an honour that recognises distinction in research, scholarship or the advancement of knowledge at the highest…

Our summer 2021 newsletter includes a review of the 6th OHA Symposium held late last year, spotlights OSPRI New Zealand Limited and includes a link to a COVID-19 documentary featuring Prof Nigel French and Drs Jemma Geoghegan and Joep de Ligt.   View the OHA Summer 2021 newsletter.