Conservation Medicine is necessary

As the interconnections between the health of humans and other animals increases in the current Anthropocene epoch, a conservation medicine approach becomes all the more critical for wildlife and wild land conservation and public health.   

Conservation medicine practitioners take an interdisciplinary approach to study the relationships between animal health, human health, and environmental conditions.  More importantly these practitioners work so that scientific studies may lead to solutions with real world actions to solve the growing conservation and health concerns of our day. You may be more familiar with the terms environmental medicine, One Health, One Medicine, or Planetary Health.  No matter the name, all these initiatives have a common goal: health care for the one and only planet that we  know supports life!   

As a conservation medicine practitioner that has been fortunate to work for the finest zoos in the USA, the roles that zoos play as partners in conservation medicine / One Health initiatives has been very clear to me. To learn more about the roles of zoos in the health care of our planet, please visit the Saint Louis Zoo's Institute for Conservation Medicine webpage, click the button below.

 
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Resources about Conservation Medicine

For more information on conservation medicine and One Health visit the below links or watch one or two of the videos:

 
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...
Sharon discusses the idea of One World Health - plants, animals and humans need to find a path to balance. As man disrupts the natural systems it disrupts the health of other living things which in turn cause problems that were not obviously predictable.
The Role of Zoological Parks in One Health by Sharon L. Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM of the Saint Louis Zoo The One Health concept, an initiative that aims to merge animal and human health science to benefit both, has rapidly gained international attention and acceptance in recent years. Sharon Deem discusses this concept in detail during this talk at the Global Health & Infectious Disease conference at Washington University in St. Louis on March 28, 2014.
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FEATURED SPEAKER: Sharon L. Deem, DVM, Ph.D., Dipl ACZM, Veterinary Epidemiologist, Saint Louis Zoo, Wildcare Institute Diseases that threaten the long-term survival of wildlife species and/or public health are increasingly recognized as challenges to the stability of the global economy.