One Health Seminar: Mapping One Health Initiatives in Latin America

Dr. Natalia Cediel Becerra, Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad de La Salle (Colombia), will speak on mapping One Health (OH) initiatives and stakeholders in Latin America. It is a key first step in the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) One Health policy.

International agencies such as PAHO and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have strengthened the capacity of many countries around the prevention of zoonoses for more than 6 decades, creating a good baseline for OH implementation.

Dr. Cediel Becerra has 17 years of experience working in multi-disciplinary health teams and intercultural workplaces. She is an Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad de La Salle, Colombia, and holds a MSc Public Health (Colombian National University) and a PhD Veterinary Sciences (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy). Her current project is entitled “Co-creation of a capacity building program to develop socio-ecological resilience, gender equity and economic empowerment in rural families of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá”.