Keynote talk on One Health. I will present at the end of the two day SETWS event hosted by Murray State University.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NEEDS VETERINARY MEDICINE—SO WHAT IS YOUR ROLE?
The Best Environmental Film of 2023 at the Cineum Cannes Film Festival, Stopping the Next Pandemic, will be aired in its entirety. Dr. Deem who is featured throughout the film will be joined by two other panelists, Drs. Jacco Boon and Krista Milich (WashU in St Louis) and Dr. Kelly Lane-deGraaf (Fontbonne U) as the moderator to discuss how we can all work together to stop the next pandemic.
Dr. Deem is on a panel with other TEDx St Louis speakers. The panel will discuss how to bring your one big idea to the stage. Dr. Deem will discuss One Health and how interconnected is the health of all life.
Dr. Deem was part of a panel discussion on how Mitigating the Impact of Pandemics on Emerging Markets. In her 15 minute presentation, Dr. Deem introduced the One Health movement and how preventing pandemics is the key to mitigating their impacts on emerging markets.
I will deliver 3 lectures at this year’s VMX conference in Orlando, Florida.
These include
8:00 - 9: 15 SPILLOVER AND SPILLBACK: LESSONS FROM A MULTIYEAR PANDEMIC
1:45 - 2:35 A ONE HEALTH APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
4:00 - 4:25 EMERGING NON-INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF WILDLIFE
What is One Health? Why is it important? Because human and animal health and their shared environments are closely connected, One Health brings experts across fields together to study, plan, and work to improve health across species and nations. In this free 1-hr webinar, hear Sharon Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM, Director, Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine, discuss how veterinary medicine is impacted by global health and how it impacts the One Health initiative. Dr. Deem will discuss how veterinary professionals play a role in One Health, including how you can help counteract and prevent emerging diseases like SARS-CoV-2.
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This webinar was presented in partnership with the One Health Federal Interagency COVID-19 Coordination Group (OH-FICC) Wildlife & Zoos Subgroup.
The Library of Congress Health Services Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division have collaborated with three expert speakers to provide the public with the latest information about the One Health approach, a transdisciplinary framework that calls for collaboration between human and veterinary medicine, sociology, economics, behavioral science and political science to manage current and future pandemics
I am pleased to be part of the panel, Human Actions Causing Zoonotic Diseases, that will be held on October 17th. Stay tuned for more information.
Join in on October 7th to learn about efforts in agriculture. I will speak on the One Health approach and how working together we can solve the current planetary health problems of today. I talk at 4:05 PM CDT!
Organized by Public Health Insight and Health Innovation Initiative, One Health Connect 2o21 brings together a panel of three world-leading experts from each of the domains of one health to highlight the importance of transdisciplinary approaches to address present and future challenges that threaten human, animal, and environmental health.
As part of the July 20 - 21, 2021 Virtual - Live Disease Prevention and Control Meeting, I will moderate an esteemed panel to discuss how we may prevent future pandemics. Sign up here https://www.terrapinn.com/template/live/landing/a0A4G00001ZmForUAF/10433?utm_source=&utm_medium=landing-page&utm_campaign=-referral&utm_term=referral-marketing&utm_content=PA03727614
Registration at https://publichealth.wustl.edu/events/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-infectious-diseases/
11:35 PM session
Michael Wysession - Historical Correlations Among Volcanic Eruptions, Climate Change, and Pandemics
Sharon Deem - A Time of Great Opportunities – One Health in an Age of Climate Change, Extinctions, and a Pandemic
12: 25 PM Table Conversations with Kathleen Alexander, Sharon L. Deem, Kristie Ebi, and Michael Wysession
I will speak on the third panel “Moving Toward a Healthy Freshwater Biome.” In this session we will discuss - What is missing in the data? What might we emphasize to get out of the way of Nature's ability to restore and regenerate? What metrics are we missing? What actions can we take? What qualities would we see in a healthy freshwater biome? Do we know? What can we learn from animals about their habitats in these biomes? What does COVID reveal?
How Protecting Wildlife Can Help to Prevent Pandemics. We share a One Health perspective from wildlife conservation and human and animal health.
One Health in an Age of Climate Change, Extinctions, and a Pandemic | Sharon Deem
Director of the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM)
Sharon L. Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM is currently the Director of the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM), a role she has held since the ICM was founded in 2011. Sharon uses a One Health holistic approach for wildlife conservation, public health, and sustainable ecosystems to ensure healthy animals, healthy people, and a healthy planet.
In the talk she will offer the opportunities this pandemic gives us and how a One Health approach will allow us to contend with the triple threats of emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity (wildlife species and wildlands). Never has resilience on a global scale been more necessary for human survival—just what the doctor ordered.
A Time of Great Opportunities: One Health in the Age of Climate Change, Extinctions, and Pandemics
Presenter: Dr. Sharon L. Deem
For this webinar, Sharon will provide a brief overview of One Health—the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines – working locally, nationally, and globally – to attain optimal health for people, animals, and environments. She will discuss the conservation and public health challenges that demand a One Health approach if we are to have solutions to these threats, and close with examples of the essential roles of veterinarians within One Health. There will be plenty of time for Q and A and discussion.
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This presentation explores the Anthropocene Epoch and the conservation and public health challenges that threaten all populations. We will emphasize the role of veterinarians in addressing these threats, including how we use our skills to protect animal health and welfare, work for resource conservation, and promote public health. In this talk, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with practicing One Health in the Age of the Anthropocene.
In 5 minutes, I will present One Health and how to get it operating at your zoological institution. This talk is one of many 5 minute presentations which will be shared in an interactive and rapid format. Talks will generate ideas to stimulate wildlife conservation.
Keynote address on the One Health movement and the importance of wildlife health for planetary health.
Deem will address the impact of environmental change and human interactions on the health of wildlife populations, and discuss her work as a practitioner of One Health: a transdisciplinary approach to promoting optimal health for people, animals and the environment.
7:00-7:50 am / One Health: The Ties That Bind
The health of humans, animals, and environments are interconnected in ways we are just starting to fully understand. These shared health threats (e.g., infectious zoonotic pathogens, environmental degradation, and pollutants) along with their potential solutions will be fully realized by using a transdisciplinary—holistic—approach. This is One Health. In this talk, we will discuss the why, what, where, how, and who of One Health with emphasis on the role of veterinarians within the growing One Health movement.
10:00-10:50 am / Endocrine Disruptive Chemicals on Wildlife and Humans
In recent years the impact that environmental toxins with endocrine disrupting capabilities, or the endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs), have on the health and reproductive fitness of humans and other animals has become increasingly appreciated. These EDCs are found in a wide range of products from drugs, pesticides, consumer products (e.g., tin cans and receipt paper), industrial by-products and pollutants, and all types of plastics, including microbeads. Using data from studies that the author has conducted on bisphenol-A (BPA)—probably the most well-known EDC—showing its impacts on turtle sex and behavior, insight into how EDCs are threatening both wildlife conservation and human health will be shared.
11:30- 12:20 pm / Conservation for the Private Practitioner
Veterinarians working in private practice may be on the front line of conservation. Through a “CPR” approach using effective communication, programs, and resources, it is private practitioners that may help to advance conservation initiatives. Specific ways in which private practitioners contribute may include 1) conservation outreach and education; 2) understanding and sharing exotic pet issues; 3) wildlife rehabilitation programs; 4) livestock-companion animal-ecosystem interface health issues; and 5) applying a One Health approach to ensure human health at the interface of wildlife, domestic animals and people. Using examples, we will explore this CPR approach and how to advance wildlife conservation through your hospital.
2:00- 2:50 pm / Turtle Conservation is One Health
Using the speakers 20+ years of conservation and health studies of turtle species on land and in rivers and oceans, including studies of box turtles and river turtles in Missouri, leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, and giant tortoises in the Galapagos, we will explore the conservation and health challenges threatening turtle species today. In the presentation, we will look at how veterinarian medicine may be applied to help with the conservation of turtle species. Additionally, how this veterinary work should be viewed from a One Health perspective since the threats to turtles are also threats to environments, humans, and animals alike.
Turtle Conservation as the Poster Child of One Health
Veterinary Medicine and the Growing One Health Movement
From wild forest elephants in Gabon and maned wolves in Bolivia to giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands, Deem has built a career connecting the health of wildlife to people through One Health, an approach that recognizes that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment. She is an award-winning epidemiologist, wildlife veterinarian and conservationist.
Where - University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Building 2, Room 100
https://provost.uga.edu/news-events/events/signature-lectures/2018-2019/
One Health for the Veterinary Practitioner
Sharon will talk about the Galapagos Tortoise Movement Ecology Programme and how a Conservation Medicine Approach can help save tortoises and all the other amazing wildlife species of the Galapagos Islands
