Advisory Board

The One Health Institute offers a new research and academic platform to promote One Health as an important vehicle to solve intractable problems. It will help us solve complex problems at the intersection that cannot be solved by one discipline alone. Society needs people thinking across disciplines.

Understanding and remediating complex problems at the intersection of animal, human and environmental health requires a transdisciplinary approach. As a veterinary epidemiologist, I have experienced the value of multi-disciplinary research teams able to address the social, cultural, economic, ecological, and bio-physical aspects of disease transmission and control.  Through the One Health Institute we will train researchers and scholars as leaders, ready to address current and future complex health problems around the world.  

I am a philosopher interested, among other things, in issues at the confluence of human, animal and environmental health; and (as ADR) in supporting faculty research in this important interdisciplinary area incorporating insights from the humanities and the fine arts.

My interest in One Health is related to studying the interconnections between agriculture, environment, and the bioeconomy. Adoption of new technologies to produce renewable energy and bioproducts results will subsequently alter life cycles of agricultural resources and waste streams. These changes present new opportunities and challenges for improving animal, human and environmental health in the agroecosystem.  

I combine phenotypic and genotypic (phenogenomics) methods to address foodborne zoonotic illnesses within a One Health context. This includes development of predictive models of virulence and antibiotic resistance of foodborne pathogens during human infection, identifying new antimicrobial compounds to control the growth of pathogenic bacteria in livestock and food, and the development of genomic approaches for rapid detection of foodborne and waterborne bacterial and viral pathogens in the environment. 

I investigate long term change in health including ethnic and social inequalities in the experience of the modern health transition.

I am an environmental social scientist who works with Indigenous and other local communities on issues of food, environmental health, and human well-being. One Health is a framework that elegantly articulates the interconnections among these three domains, and that is very compatible with the values and priorities that I hear from my collaborators.

I am integrative ecophysiologist and study the long-term effects of environmental stress on development, behaviour, physiology and fitness of wildlife.  I am especially interested in how environmental change and landscape modification can impact stress responses in animals ranging from birds to butterflies to small mammals, and how these insights may apply to understanding stress and human health. These interdisciplinary perspectives are aligned with, and inspired by, a One Health approach.

My research interests in the design and implementation of cloud computing informatics systems and in modelling systems that require huge amounts of data are a perfect fit with an One Health approach to complex challenges.   To understand and forecast the impact of animal diseases and production environments we need to collect and analyze data, not only across communities, but often across countries and continents, so I’m glad to be able to create systems that can make that possible.

My name is Riley Bauman (she/her) and I am an incoming Co-president for the OHSC starting Winter 2022. As a first-year veterinary student at the Ontario Veterinary College, One Health has surfaced as a recurrent theme in my current studies, research interests, and career goals. I am especially focused on creative approaches to food security and veterinary community outreach. In my spare time, I enjoy managing livestock on my family farm, square dancing, and painting. To me, the OHSC embodies the same team concept that first drew me to One Health, bringing together undergraduate, graduate and veterinary students alike under one goal. I am very excited to keep growing with this amazing crew (aka the future of One Health)!

Grace Nichol is a PhD student studying epidemiology in the Department of Population Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College. She is also enrolled in the Collaborative Specialization in One Health.

Grace’s research investigates the distribution of Dermacentor ticks in the western Canadian provinces through a One Health lens.

Grace is co-president of the One Health Student Committee, the University of Guelph’s first interdisciplinary student-led organization in One Health.