One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2024

One Health Innovations and Collaborations

Our 10th symposium was held on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 December 2024
at Nordmeyer Lecture Theatre, University of Otago, Wellington and online

The annual One Health Aotearoa Symposium aims to bring together experts from the fields of animal, human and environmental health in order to address important One Health issues in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Programme

DAY 1: Tuesday, 3 December

Session 1:

  • Plenary: Patrick Biggs, Massey University
    The genomic landscape of Mycoplasma bovis in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Morgan Heslop, Massey University
    Animal welfare impacts of managing disease vectors for One Health
  • Jackie Wright, ESR
    A One Health Aotearoa approach needed to identify the key pathways for Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli infection
  • Wendi Roe, Massey University
    From mountains to mussels to Māui dolphins: toxoplasmosis in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Farnaz Pourzand, University of Otago
    Exploring the Influence of Water Supply and Dairy Farming on Campylobacteriosis Incidence in New Zealand
  • Will Taylor, ESR
    The Ins and Outs of Water Metagenomics: Approaches to Drinking, Environmental and Wastewater Monitoring
  • Finlay Field, British High Commission
    A Global Challenge – Addressing AMR Through International Collaboration

Session 2:

  • Plenary: Jinxin Liu, Najing Agricultural University
    Shaping the Resistome: Dietary and Developmental Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Early Life
  • Sudesh Sharma, ESR
    Leveraging systems thinking for sustainable antimicrobial resistance prevention and mitigation in the veterinary sector
  • Jo McKenzie, Massey University
    Strengthening One Health approaches to address AMR in South Asia
  • Hilary Miller, ESR
    Identification and genomic analysis of mecC-carrying Staphylococcus aureus in clinical isolates from New Zealand
  • Emma Voss, Livestock Improvement Group
    Comparative Genomics of ST1 Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand
  • Lucy Johnston, MPI
    MPI AMR team update

Session 3:

  • Plenary: Ian Barr, Doherty Institute
    Avian Influenza; Internal and external threats to humans and animals
  • Nicole Satherly, InZight Analytics
    Individual, household, and socio-economic predictors of COVID-19 testing and vaccination outcomes: a whole population linked data analysis
  • Stephanie Waller, University of Otago
    Preparing Aotearoa for the threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus using genomics-informed surveillance
  • Poster Presentations

DAY 2: Wednesday, 4 December

Session 4:

  • Plenary: James Renwick, Victoria University of Wellington
    Climate Change and Human Health
  • Angela Baschieri, ESR
    Impact and Climate Change and Health: From Evidence to Action
  • Ayesha Salgadu, Melbourne University
    Bayesian Latent Class in One Health
  • Mike Joy, Victoria University of Wellington
    Biophysical limits to growth collide with our delusions of business as usual

Session 5:

  • Plenary: Lucia Schweitzer and Wini Wilson, Te Niwha
    Te Niwha – Infectious Diseases Research for and with the people of Aotearoa
  • Anne Rouault, French Embassy
    One Health: Opportunities for collaboration with NZ from a French perspective
  • Kylarni Tamaiva-Eria, PUREI
    Weaving Worlds: Integrating Te Ao Māori (Māori Worldview) and Te Ao Pākehā (Western Worldview) for ethically informed research
  • Dinithi Bowatte, Massey University
    One Health, Multiple Factors: Using ecofeminist and mobility theories to understand woman-animal interactions around water at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in south-west Uganda
  • Judith Littleton, University of Auckland
    One Palaeopathology? What’s that?

Session 6:

  • Nigel French Massey University
    Campylobacteriosis: what’s new?
  • Xiao Lu University of Sydney
    Canine leptospirosis in urban and regional environments: What have we learnt from outbreaks in New South Wales, Australia?
  • Emma Jackson, University of Otago/NZ Food Safety-MPI
    Understanding host specificity of Staphylococcus aureus through the genotypic and phenotypic differences of bovine- and human-isolated Staphylococcus aureus
  • Magda Dunowska Massey University
  • Environmental surveillance at Massey University’s vet school: data from the past 11 years and characterisation of phages with broad spectrum activity against environmental Salmonella isolates.
  • Rhys White ESR
    Sinks and surprises: rapid identification of Klebsiella variicola via decentralised sequencing
  • Ron Blackwell MPI
    MPI Emerging risk system

Session 7

Kristen Dyet and Joanna McKenzie – One Health Aotearoa Co-directors
One Health Aotearoa update

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