Songbird populations in southwestern Ontario have decreased by 70 per cent in the last five decades, as grassland ecosystems are lost to urban sprawl and other factors.
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The One Health concept is often best understood through examples…like that of Prof. Cate Dewey, Professor in Population Medicine and the Director of the One Health Institute, who pursued answers to a difficult, multi-faceted health problem in rural Kenya.
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Personal computer users often run into problems finding enough secure storage space for videos, music and other bits of electronic information…so imagine the challenges facing computer scientists like Prof. Deborah Stacey trying to gather and store millions of data points to address global animal disease.
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If you want to know more about the expanding discipline of One Health, take a look at one of the first professors to be hired at the University of Guelph as a One Health researcher and educator.
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Current obesity debates often oversimplify the disease’s cause by either blaming the individual or blaming the environment. But, Prof. Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, says this is a harmful oversimplification.
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