When mice lacking key adaptive immune cells were infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, even though they are not able to clear the virus, they developed no symptoms, revealing that the body’s own inflammatory immune response to fight the infection was causing the pathology,...
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is a private liberal arts university in Ecuador, with a main campus in the high Andean mountains of Quito, a satellite campus in the Galapagos Islands, and a research station in the Amazonian lowlands USFQ is also one of...
Faculty members from the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health have discovered coronaviruses in wild carnivores that had never been reported in these species before The research, published in Journal of Virology, expands knowledge of coronaviruses’ diversity...
For Jeanne Moseley, teaching public health equity begins with conversations around humility Having spent decades working in public health and international development, she has learned that humility is key to understanding how systemic inequities vary by context,...
This installment features Dr Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and assistant research professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Schuler works to conserve free-ranging species for...
Cats have a special place in many people’s hearts An estimated 60 million felines are kept as pets in the United States alone Cats also occupy a distinct position in the ecological networks of companion animals, humans and peri-domestic species – wild and feral...
A study that used photos taken by participants to spark conversation reveals firsthand accounts of how climate change, land use and dams on the Mekong River are threatening the future of the communities dependent on those ecosystems The study, which brought together...
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease This is important because wildlife agencies often lack the financial and labor resources to...
Dr Laura Goodman has been fascinated by microbes, infectious disease, and “pathogens that affect both humans and animals” since her undergraduate days, when she became concerned with how diseases interact with climate change After studying zoonotic disease at...
Avery Sirwatka is a master’s student in public health from Jamestown, New York He earned an associate’s degree from Jamestown Community College and a dual bachelor’s degree in public policy and psychology from the University at Buffalo and now studies the impacts...
Working in a corporate firm in Argentina while in law school, Denise Frohmann found herself doing a lot of pro bono work, and realized the for-profit sector might not be for her “I was interested in the intersection between health and law, but hadn’t made that...
