One Health Wednesdays – Details, episodes & analysis

One Health Wednesdays continues its mission to elevate One Health discussions, this time diving deeper into the incredible work of our host, Dr. Ginger Dixon. In this episode, Ginger takes center stage to share her journey through her Doctorate in Public Health and the development of her innovative Capstone project—a One Health surveillance system designed to empower community action.

This scalable system integrates citizen science with ecological data to track biodiversity hotspots, keystone species, zoonotic diseases, and climate variables, all in one cohesive platform. Ginger explains how her project creates accessible and affordable solutions for resource-limited communities, enabling effective monitoring and response to public health challenges.

Throughout the conversation, Ginger emphasizes the system's practical applications—from visualizing environmental changes to aiding in conservation efforts and zoonotic disease prevention. She also explores the impact of climate factors and human activities on the health of ecosystems and discusses her plans for expanding the platform's capabilities. Whether you're a public health professional or just passionate about sustainability and community health, this episode is full of thought-provoking insights.

Connect with our hosts:

Dr. Julia Zammit LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjulia-zammit/⁠

Dr. Ginger Dixon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginger-dixon/ 

One Health Surveillance Dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ginger.dixon/viz/OneHealthSurveillance-Arizona/Story1

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One Health Wednesdays is back after a year hiatus, continuing its mission to spotlight impactful work in One Health. This season opener features Dr. Julia Zammit as guest host, giving our regular host, Dr. Ginger Dixon, a chance to sit in the expert chair and share her own story and recent achievements. Ginger dives into her groundbreaking doctoral capstone project, where she developed a scalable One Health surveillance system using citizen science. Her platform brings together biodiversity hotspots, keystone species, zoonotic diseases, and climate events in one accessible system, designed to empower communities and policymakers alike.

Throughout the episode, Ginger highlights the real-world applications of her work—from conservation prioritization to disease trend monitoring—and discusses where advancements in AI and citizen science are poised to take One Health surveillance in the future. This episode offers insights not only for those in the field but for anyone interested in how innovative tools can drive public health and environmental solutions.

Connect with our hosts:

Dr. Julia Zammit LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjulia-zammit/⁠

Dr. Ginger Dixon LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginger-dixon/⁠
Capstone: ⁠https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ginger.dixon/viz/GingerDixonDrPHCapstone2024/Story1⁠

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dr. Kate Sulzner is a wildlife veterinarian, One Health specialist, and Director of EcoVet Global. Kate describes her journey into One Health as she married her two loves of veterinary medicine and conservation biology. Today, she works in STEM and conservation education at Curiodyssey, and in an innovative One Health education program in Tanzania through EcoVet Global which utilizes an evidence-based, collaborative process with the community to train women as One Health workers and establish regional hubs.

Links:

Kate Sulzner LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katesulzner/

EcoVet Global: www.ecovetglobal.org

UCDavis Masters in Preventive Vet Medicine: https://mpvm.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/

Curiodyssey https://curiodyssey.org/

Wildlife Disease Association: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4150696/

Wildlife Conservation Society: https://oneworldonehealth.wcs.org/

Newcastle Disease: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/newcastle-disease-and-other-paramyxovirus-infections/newcastle-disease-in-poultry

Fiscal sponsorship: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/fiscal-sponsorship-nonprofits

Earth Island Institute: https://www.earthisland.org/

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. This week we’ve done a special recap of professional development advice offered by our first five guests in case you’ve missed them. To hear more:

Episode 1 Deborah Sateler: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep1/

Episode 2 Thomas Julian Irabor and Julia Zammit: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep2/

Episode 3 Special guest host Julia Zammit with Nitya Ghotge: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep3/

Episode 4 Monal Daptardar: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep4/

Episode 5 Noel Miranda: https://labopp.org/ohw/ep5/

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Rolayo Emmanuel is a Medical Parasitologist in Nigeria who studies neglected tropical diseases such as trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis. She discusses her observations of season and climate changes in the parasite and it tse tse fly host, challenges with safety and education, and the need for additional diagnostic tools in the field.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolayoemmanuel/

https://www.linkedin.com/school/ahmadu-bello-university-zaria-/

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trypanosomiasis-human-african-(sleeping-sickness)

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Mariana Delgado is a veterinarian in France who works in wildlife health. She takes a One Health perspective in her work which has included experience with the Ministry of Peru working on conservation and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, formerly OIE) on prevention and disease resilience from animal health. Most recently, she completed a certificate training in Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and WOAH, which she explains in detail.

Links:

Mariana Delgado https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-delgado-rivas-wildlife-vet/

WOAH https://www.linkedin.com/company/worldanimalhealth/

IUCN https://www.linkedin.com/company/iucn/

Manual for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2014-006.pdf

Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis Course https://www.conservationtraining.org/enrol/index.php?id=1163

WOAH Newsletter https://bulletin.woah.org/?page_id=144

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Sabin Liulea is a marine biologist in Spain who used his love of the ocean to pursue studies in marine biology. His work on relationships between seaweed, urchins, and climate highlights how One Health is just as important for marine environments as it is on land. Learn more as he discusses phycology and the close relationships between seaweed, oxygen, ocean temperatures, and the socioeconomic implications of changing environments and ecosystems.

@Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change #phycology #marinebiology #climatechange #climateaction #seaweed #kelp #oceanecology @Universidade do Algarve @Sorbonne Universite @Universitat de Girona

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabin-liulea/

https://www.ipcc.ch/

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Dauda Onawola, a veterinarian in One Health and founder of DVMPlus, shares his philosophy and definition of One Health as well as his goals and work at DVMPlus in veterinary inclusion in One Health, One Health program design, and action-based advocacy. Projects such as #OHDaily and Zoonosis Card are innovative ways that he and his team are spreading awareness and providing education in One Health. Reach out to him to contribute to OHDaily and become an ambassador with DVMPlus

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dauda-onawola/

https://dvmplus.wordpress.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dvm-plus/

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ohdaily

One Health Wednesdays highlights work in One Health to encourage awareness, solutions, and professional development. Chanchal Bhattacharya is a public health veterinarian with the Government of Delhi with a wealth of experiences to share in zoonotic surveillance, animal husbandry, and policy and planning. He shares lessons learned from avian influenza outbreaks in India, interdisciplinary planning for the Indian ABC program for rabies eradication, changes in human Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) infections with climate change, and the need for involvement of other specialties in One Health such as economists, sociologists, and ecologists. Dr. Bhattacharya has graciously offered to serve as a mentor or advisor for students and individuals who are interested in contacting him to learn more about zoonoses and One Health.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-chanchal-bhattacharya-59b42a18/

https://ncdc.gov.in/WriteReadData/l892s/25879243771600146411.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709690/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27692988/

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/human-infection-with-avian-influenza-a(h5n1)-%EF%BD%B0-india

Physician, author, researcher, educator, health policy researcher, and co-founder of One Health Initiative – Laura Kahn is a woman of many hats who brings diverse experience and education to the One Health table. She shares her insight on the evolution of One Health, global security including bioterrorism and zoonoses, and needs for improvement of health-thinking and systems, anthropology of food security, and present and future challenges with future security and the politics of antimicrobial resistance.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kahn-79b01510/

https://onehealthinitiative.com/

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/one-health-and-politics-antimicrobial-resistance

https://sgs.princeton.edu/team/frank-von-hippel

Books:

Zoobiquity by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D.

https://www.amazon.com/Zoobiquity-Astonishing-Connection-Between-Animal/dp/0307477436

Nature’s Mutiny by Philipp Blom

https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Mutiny-Seventeenth-Century-Transformed/dp/1631496727

Missing Microbes by Martin Blaser

https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Microbes-Overuse-Antibiotics-Fueling/dp/0805098100

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud

https://www.amazon.com/Timefulness-Thinking-Like-Geologist-World/dp/0691181209