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'One Health for the Real World' (or, 'real livestock for real global wellbeing')

‘One Health for the Real World’ (or, ‘real livestock for real global wellbeing’)

The four members of the organizing committee of the One Health for the Real World Symposium and key players in the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium: (left to right), James Wood, University of Cambridge; Andrew Cunningham, Zoological Society of London; Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies; and Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies (this and all photos on this…

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Unpacking transdisciplinary research (the REALLY hard science)

Unpacking transdisciplinary research (the REALLY hard science)

Minoan bronze figure from Crete of an acrobat jumping over a bull (image reproduced on Labyrinthos Potnia website).

The following excerpt is the beginning of a candid and thoughtful article by Ian Scoones, of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at Sussex University, about an international symposium, One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing, that took place at the…

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This March: 'One Health for the Real World: Zoonoses, Ecosystems and Wellbeing' symposium

This March: ‘One Health for the Real World: Zoonoses, Ecosystems and Wellbeing’ symposium

Ethiopian girl and her calf in Ghibe Valley (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu).

One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing 17–18 Mar 2016

This symposium will bring together leading experts from different fields to discuss the topic ‘Healthy ecosystems, healthy people’.

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This symposium announcement comes from the Institue of Zoology website.

Ecosystems provide…

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Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century--The Lancet

Tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century–The Lancet

Marble figurine of a woman, from the Cyclades, Aegean Sea, early Bronze Age, about 2600-2400 BC (via the British Museum).

The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change was formed to map out the impacts of climate change and the necessary policy responses. The central finding from the Commission’s work is that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of…

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