Jan/Feb 2026

Dear Friends of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health,

Back in 2003, I started the AHEAD (Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development) Program, focused on solving problems at the livestock / wildlife interface being faced in Africa’s rangelands. More than two decades later, the journey continues to be moving and exciting, and we continue to see genuine progress with a range of partners whose friendship and insights I cherish.

We’ve just published an important new paper on our work in southern Africa’s Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, and the Cornell Chronicle did a nice, very readable profile of the work (for those of you less inclined to thumb through the 17-page paper in Frontiers in Veterinary Science).

I hope you enjoy learning more about our efforts to move science into policy and action, working with communities as well as national governments to secure more sustainable conservation and development outcomes grounded in a new paradigm for transboundary animal disease management.

SCoPE Event Ignites New Collaborations Among Wildlife Pathologists and Conservationists in South and Southeast Asia

Unique threatened wildlife species, including rhinos, dholes, and tigers, have made South and Southeast Asia a critical focal point of Dr. Carmen Smith’s K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellowship in Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology. The need for regional collaboration in wildlife pathology and disease surveillance led Carmen to co-organize the Summit for Conservation Pathology Engagement (SCoPE), held at the Mandai Wildlife Reserve in Singapore....

One Health Around the World: Cornell's Backyard [video]

In this eCornell Keynote presentation, Drs. Sara Childs-Sanford, Cynthia Hopf-Dennis, and Taylor Haefs from the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital discuss how their team cares for over 2,000 patients each year and what’s being learned about the wider disease and environmental threats to wildlife in the northeastern U.S....

How Behavior Impacts Outbreaks [podcast]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Confirmed Among Black-Browed Albatrosses on Beauchêne Island in the South Atlantic

Alumni Spotlight: Ellen Haynes '09, DVM '13, PhD, Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

Equitable Investment in the Veterinary Workforce is Foundational to One Health and Planetary Wellbeing

Mark your calendar for our biggest online fundraising event of the year

on Thursday, March 12th!

Cornell Giving Day brings together friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to do the greatest good.

Comprehensive Conservation with Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust

From the Mountains to the Sea and Everything in Between: A Journey with Oregon’s State Wildlife Veterinarian

Veterinary Conservation in Action: Experiential Learning with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Practicing Aquarium and Rehabilitation Medicine in Mississippi

A Conference for Aquatics: My First Professional Presentation

Saving Hawaiʻi’s Native Birds: The Intersection of Veterinary Medicine and Wildlife Rehabilitation



Stepping Through the Gates of Zoo Medicine

More New Science

Moose Survival and Habitat‐Associated Risk of Endoparasites

Uncovering Genetic Population Structure in the Endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) across Islands in the Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans