One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2019

The fifth One Health Aotearoa symposium will be held on Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 December 2019 at the University of Otago, Wellington.

The aim of our One Health Aotearoa symposia is to bring together experts from the fields of animal, human and environmental health in order to address priority One Health issues in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

One Health aims to improve health and well-being through integrated, cross-sectoral, and whole-of-society approaches to health hazards. While infectious diseases research remains at the core of the Centre’s research programme, our 5th symposium is open to the wider One Health context.

The call for abstracts is open!

Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations from One Health researchers at any career stage, including emerging researchers and postgraduate students before 5.00pm on Friday 19 July 2019.

Student travel awards

Travel grants will be awarded to students selected to give proffered oral presentations who live outside of Wellington. There will also be awards at the Symposium for the best student poster presentations.

Early bird registration closes on 20 September

Early bird registration pricing is available until Friday 20 September 2019.

Student pricing

Before 21 September – $25.00
From 21 September – $50.00
From 1 December – $75.00

Standard pricing

Before 21 September – $50.00
From 21 September – $100.00
From 1 December – $150.00

Plenary speakers

More plenary speakers will be announced soon.

Anthony Capon

Anthony Capon is Professor of Planetary Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. A former director of the global health institute at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), Tony is a public health physician and authority in environmental health and health promotion. His research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health.
Tony is a member of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health which published its report Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch in 2015. He currently co-chairs the Future Earth Health Knowledge-Action Network, and has previously served in numerous honorary leadership roles with professional and not-for-profit organisations including the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the International Society for Urban Health and the Frank Fenner Foundation.

Samuel Sheppard

Sam is Professor and Director of Bioinformatics at the Milner Centre for Evolution (University of Bath), Co-PI of MRC-CLIMB (Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics) and honorary Professor of Microbiology at Swansea University. Before joining Bath from Swansea in 2016, he worked for nearly ten years at the University of Oxford as RA and Wellcome Trust Fellow.
Sam’s research centres on the use of genetics/genomics and phenotypic studies to address complex questions in the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of microbes. His most recent interest focuses upon comparative genome analysis to describe the core and accessory genome of pathogenic bacteria (Campylobacter, Staphylococcus, Helicobacter and Escherichia coli) and how this is related to population genetic structuring, the maintenance of species, and the evolution of host/niche adaptation and virulence.

One Health Aotearoa Symposium archives

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