Dr. Tad McIlwraith is a cultural anthropologist who uses storytelling as the medium for his research. McIlwraith is a community-based researcher who follows Indigenous-based methodologies. He turns community interests into research projects that look at different elements of the environment and how we can live within it in respectful ways.
Most people steered clear of the COVID-19 pandemic chaos… but not Dr. Ryan Gregory. Instead of waiting for the smoke to clear, Gregory and colleagues, Drs. Sofie Lachapelle and Elizabeth Finnis, decided to seize the moment and develop a learning experience to help students make sense of what was happening around them. “We leaned into this unfamiliar situation and embraced it,” says Gregory.
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Dr. Georgina Cox at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is working on a quintessential One Health enigma: antimicrobial resistance. But, instead of targeting the growth of infectious organisms like most antibiotics, Cox is using a different strategy – one that disarms the bugs, making them less infectious.
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“[One Health] issues are challenging problems,” Dr. Brian Husband says, “so we’re giving students the skillset to think hard and critically about them. That’s powerful and will really benefit them going forward.”
Seldom do food scientists, biologists, veterinarians, and anthropologists plan an undergraduate degree together – as their own disciplines keep them busy enough – but that was exactly the case for the new Bachelor of One Health program at the University of Guelph.
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