one health
Maison Scheuer (‘2025) and classmates share how their dreams came true as students enrolled in Dr. Noha Abou-Madi’s International Experience in Wildlife Health and Conservation course at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Hear from Carolina Baquerizo ’24 about her extraordinary summer with the South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction and Conservation!
Jared Zion (’23) details his extraordinary experience at The Israeli Wildlife Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel. Click to find out more!
Colleen Sorge (’24) spent a summer learning about primate conservation in Uganda. Keep reading to find out more.
Mariah Beck (’20) discusses implications of the connection between wildlife health, human disease, and how we can all be conservationists. Keep reading to learn more.
Second-year veterinary and MPH student J Hunter Reed delivers a timely charge to current and future veterinarians: stand guard for these coming years, as they will bring a myriad of challenges. You will be there, and our world will need you. At the end of the day, it will not be individual knowledge that will save this planet – it will be the collective wisdom of many minds working together as a team towards one common objective: to protect Life. Wherever you are and whatever your specialty, push yourself to collaborate. It will frustrate you; it will humble you; but, most importantly, it will inspire you. And through that inspiration, I hope you come to appreciate that this world is a remarkable one – and in fact, our only one. It needs our help now more than ever, and we must work together, as one, to protect it.
Melissa Hanson, third year DVM student at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, worked with chimpanzees at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo this summer. Through Engaged Cornell and the Jane Goodall Institute, Melissa analyzed behavior and social interactions of the chimpanzees, conducted wellness exams, and also developed a body condition score (BCS) system for chimpanzees that will allow caregivers in the future to monitor nutrition and well-being in a non-invasive manner.
The worlds of veterinary medicine, public health, conservation, and ecology came together during Saturday’s Tropical Biology and Conservation Lightning Symposium. The symposium consisted of 23 five minute talks, given by veterinary students, graduate students, undergraduate students, and professors, prefaced by an hour-long keynote speech by Steven Osofsky, DVM.
Third year veterinary student Sarah Balik (2019) will present a lecture about her experience interning for the Jane Goodall Institute in Uganda through the Engaged Cornell Program this summer. Her project consisted of monitoring the health of wild chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, conducting a retrospective epidemiological analysis to understand the zoonotic potential of previous lethal respiratory disease outbreaks among the chimpanzees in Kibale, and serving the local forest adjacent communities by volunteering with a mobile medical unit to provide medical care to people who lack access to doctors. Come to this lecture to see how wildlife health, public health and One Health concepts have real world implications!
