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February 2026

Several chickens.

Life-saving lessons come from understanding diseases shared by wildlife and humans. Hear how Cornell's Dr. Steve Osofsky has helped to shape the One Health approach.
Dr. Carmen Smith stands next to a projector screen showing a slide while a group of people look on.

The need for regional collaboration in wildlife pathology and disease surveillance in South and Southeast Asia led Dr. Carmen Smith, the Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow, to co-organize the Summit for Conservation Pathology Engagement, held at the Mandai Wildlife Reserve in Singapore.
Several zebra and wildebeest in a grassy landscape

Vast fences erected to protect cattle from catching diseases from wildlife and other livestock in southern Africa are in disrepair, restrict wildlife migrations, and likely intensify human-elephant conflict; removing key sections could help pastoralists and wildlife, our latest study suggests....