One-Health Research Fellowships in Pakistan
The interface between humans and animals is ever changing, due to crowding, commerce and agricultural intensification, human encroachment on previously undisturbed habitats and animal encroachment on the human habitat. These factors create a perfect environment for the rapid spread of zoonotic diseases. There is an urgent need for innovative disease control and prevention efforts that address linkages between environmental change and human and animal health in an integrated, “One Health” (1-H) manner.
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Description
The National Research Council will undertake a pilot fellowship project to establish collaborative educational/research opportunities between young investigators and their research mentors or lab directors from Pakistan and U.S. experts in One Health (1-H) science and research. According to the CDC “the One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans is connected to the health of animals and the environment.” This project will focus on the medical-veterinary interventions on zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases. The goals of this project are:
- To create a model for fostering enduring international and national research collaborations that could be adapted and applied in different country settings.
- To pilot this model as a first step to building a 1-H research network in Pakistan using one cohort of young scientists/researchers.
- To provide a broader context for 1-H issues (i.e., legal/regulatory structures, ethical and related issues, pedagogy for teaching 1-H as part of an academic science curriculum) and promote a non-proliferation culture using tenets of Responsible Science.
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Staff
Audrey Thevenon
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Major units and sub-units
Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Institute for Laboratory Animal Research
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