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June 20, 2025
In this eCornell keynote presentation, Drs. Katie Fiorella, Sebastian Heilpern, and Eric Teplitz use case studies from rapidly emerging aquatic food sectors in Cambodia, the Amazon, and Kenya to underscore the critical importance of aquatic environments and biodiversity to our own health.
June 10, 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service aim to narrow the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act, potentially allowing habitat destruction that puts wildlife at risk.
April 30, 2025
On February 11-12, 2025, Dr. Pete Coppolillo, Executive Director of Working Dogs for Conservation (WD4C), was welcomed to Cornell University as a special guest speaker to discuss how dogs are helping to further conservation efforts.
April 21, 2025
A new paper in the journal CABI One Health captures a pioneering One Health effort that reinforces the reality that meaningful policy change across sectors often takes significant time and patience.
March 24, 2025
Drs. Craig Stephen and Marcela Uhart will headline the inaugural Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Distinguished Speaker event on March 28 at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. They will discuss critical One Health and conservation challenges, highlighting the connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health.
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February 05, 2025
In this eCornell keynote, Drs. Amandine Gamble and Marie Bouilloud share their recent fieldwork experiences in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions to help illustrate how wildlife health is connected to human activity, even thousands of miles away.
Blog
January 25, 2025
Dr. Steve Osofsky, director of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, reflects on a transformative year, and looks forward to leading the way in shaping how the center can help tilt the scales back toward the type of environmental stewardship we ourselves need to survive as a species.
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January 24, 2025
Professor Steve Osofsky was invited to give the keynote address, “Birthing Planetary Health: A Midwife’s Tale,” at the Sustainable Cornell Summit 2024.
October 07, 2024
Growing pressures on the environment are increasing needs and work opportunities for veterinarians in wildlife conservation. A gift of $35 million received by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine — the largest in the school's history — will help fund activities of its wildlife health center into the future.
Announcement
September 17, 2024
After an international search, Carmen R. Smith ’17, DVM ’21, has been selected as the inaugural Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow, who will focus on unraveling the causes and conditions responsible for unexplained wildlife mortality events around the world.