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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 investigators have been highly sought after as opinion leaders on the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing technical advice to various authorities, our investigators have featured prominently in the media in the effort to provide accurate and timely expert opinion on this developing situation and to keep New Zealand informed. A number ...

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 ...