News & events

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. Here is ...

Our Summer 2020 news letter contains selected links to OHA investigators in the media discussing COVID-19, a review of our 5th annual symposium in December 2019, OHA’s publication in the One Health Outlook journal, and an update on our CoRE application. View the One Health Aotearoa Summer 2020 newsletter.

The likelihood of New Zealand remaining coronavirus-free is low and the country should be preparing for a pandemic, the Co-directors of One Health Aotearoa warn. Currently there are no cases of coronavirus disease (now referred to as COVID-19) in New Zealand. However, in an editorial in today’s issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ), ...

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, ...

One Health Aotearoa Co-director Professor David Murdoch has written an article for Newsroom about the One Health Aotearoa alliance and our research priorities to tackle complex health challenges in New Zealand, including the overuse of antibiotics, threats to freshwater quality and emerging infectious diseases. Read the article: Three monumental challenges to our health

This week is the World Health Organisation’s Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Week,and it’s a good opportunity to think about the impact of ‘super bugs’ on the health of New Zealand communities. ESR tracks many microorganisms and one particularly nasty family of super bugs is currently showing an increase. Super bugs are typically resistant to nearly all ...

Our spring 2019 newsletter includes information about our 5th symposium next month, profiles VetSouth and VetNZ director Mark Bryan, and provides information about a PhD opportunity currently available at Massey University on leptospirosis with Associate Professor Jackie Benschop. View the One Health Aotearoa Spring 2019 newsletter.