One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2024

One Health Innovations and Collaborations

Our 10th symposium will be 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
Application of WGS to understanding epidemiology of zoonotic diseases
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
TBC

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
TBC
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