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One Planet One Health
One Health is a collaborative effort of multiple disciplines working together on our planet’s most complex animal, human and environmental health problems. This approach is not new to the U of G. With its roots in veterinary medicine and food production, researchers here have long understood the close relationship between the health of plants, animals, people and the land that supported them.
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We long to return to normal, but normal led to this. To avert the future pandemics we know are coming, we MUST grapple with all the ways normal failed us. ~ Ed Yong, Science Journalist
Guelph researchers are using a One Health approach to tackle many of the most pressing health issues of our time including:
- Zoonotic diseases
- Diseases with pandemic potential (e.g., COVID-19)
- Community-based research of water quality
- Poverty and food security in subsistence economies
- Antimicrobial resistance in Canada and abroad
- Climate change and the spread of vector-borne disease
- Pollinator health
- Effects of pet ownership on human wellbeing
- Clinical trials in comparative oncology
- Informatics and disease modelling