November 3, 2024

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November 3

Happy One Health Day 2024

from the

One Health Commission

www.onehealthday.org

In Celebration of One Health Day

Announcing the

Winner of the 2024

Dr. Gregory D. Bossart Memorial

One Health Scholarship

Funded by Georgia Aquarium,

Administered by the One Health Commission

The Dr. Gregory D. Bossart Memorial One Health Scholarship was launched in 2021 by the One Health Commission and Georgia Aquarium for one student each year, from anywhere in the world, who is leading a graduate or clinical research project focused on the interconnections between animals, people, plants, and their shared environment.

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The $5,000 USD Scholarship Award for 2024

will go to:

 Grace Hood  

for her One Health Project titled:

Deforestation as a driver of emerging viral spillover events at the human-animal-environment interface in Malaysian Borneo

Grace, a Veterinarian with a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, is a third Year PhD Student in the High-Consequence Emerging Viruses group at the University of Oxford.

Malaysian Borneo has undergone extensive deforestation over the past 40 years, significantly

altering the epidemiology of zoonotic diseases in both humans and non-human primates. The Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project in Malaysian Borneo is one of the world’s largest ecological studies, and examines the effect on ecosystems of a planned conversion of old growth forest to oil palm plantations. This project utilises the ecological gradient of the SAFE project to describe the prevalence of zoonotic viruses in macaques across different landscapes, using multiplexed serology and pathogen-agnostic metagenomic sequencing. By combining serological and molecular measures of disease prevalence with earth observation and biodiversity data it aims to produce a One Health investigation into the drivers of viral emergence at the human-animal-environment interface.

Congratulations, Grace!!!

We look forward to following progress on your

One Health Project!