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Birthing Planetary Health talk by Steve Osofsky

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Professor Steve Osofsky was invited to give the keynote address, “Birthing Planetary Health: A Midwife’s Tale,” at the Sustainable Cornell Summit 2024.
Bat hanging upside down

A new combination of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us. Cornell's Dr. Raina Plowright discusses how any public-­health intervention to prevent future pandemics will need to tackle the whole environmental tapestry. 
mosquito landed on human skin

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College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious Disease Research on Climate, Health and Equity in a Changing Environment (C-CHANGE).
Gaydos performing a health check on a roaming dog following a sampling session at the Faridpur field site (Photo: Ashok Kumar Biswas)

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Growing up, I couldn’t wait for the moment evening turned to dusk and the dancing silhouettes of bats began to fill the night sky. This love of bats grew with me, expanding as I could better understand the science behind what made bats so unique....
Shorebird flight by Christine Bogdanowicz

Cornell's Migrations initiative is stepping into a new phase as the Migrations Program, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, with CVM's Dr. Kathryn Fiorella joining as the program director.  
A landscape of a tropical forest and hills.

Cornell's Drs. Raina Plowright, Amandine Gamble, and Krysten Schuler were awarded a grant from Cornell Atkinson’s Academic Venture Fund for their project: Integrating Primary Pandemic Prevention into mainstream policy, funding, and practice through One Health spillover investigation.
Fishing landscape by Kathryn Fiorella.

Households caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, which has important implications for how loss of biodiversity might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes.
Fishers work on Lake Victoria in Africa by Kathryn Fiorella.

Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study co-authored by Cornell's Dr. Kathryn Fiorella.
Small canoe-like fishing boats pulled up on a shoreline.

Cornell's Dr. Kathryn Fiorella researches how changes in the environment affect the well-being, economic stability, and food security of communities, with a focus on global fisheries.
Fruit bats in flight from Pixabay.

In a new perspective paper in Nature Communications, Cornell's Dr. Raina Plowright and a team of ecologists, infectious disease scientists and policy experts have distilled their collective observations into three recommendations to prevent spillovers and halt epidemics and pandemics before they even start.