The Community, Environment and Policy Department presents:

       
       From Soil to Sentinels: can the One Health approach
     and Indigenous Wisdom help solve big "wicked problems"

     Wednesday February 8, 2023
     12:00 –12:50 pm
     Drachman Hall A114 and Zoom: 
     https://arizona.zoom.us/s/89437479609 (passcode: 881787)


Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH

Abstract: One Health is a holistic approach to the health of people, animals, plants, and our shared environment. At its core it is essentially based in Indigenous Wisdom about the interconnectedness of life and ecosystems. Can such an approach address fundamental challenges such as sustainable food production for the world, and ways to survive and adapt to climate change? This seminar will focus on two examples of applications of the One Health approach:  how the health of the soil, damaged by non-regenerative agricultural practices, is affecting human health and disease, and how animals can be both sentinels for climate change and a source of possible adaptive strategies. 

Bio: Dr. Peter Rabinowitz is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Family Medicine, and Global Health and is Director of the Center for One Health Research at the University of Washington. The Center explores linkages between human, animal and environmental health in a "One Health" paradigm, including: zoonotic infectious diseases at the human-animal interface, animals as "sentinels" of environmental health hazards and climate change, and clinical collaboration between human health care providers and veterinarians in a species-spanning approach. He is board certified in Family Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine and provides clinical care for patients with vector-borne and zoonotic diseases in the UW Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Clinic. He is the Principal Investigator on a cooperative agreement with CDC (project INSIGHT) for global disease surveillance strengthening and is a co-Principal Investigator on UW’s NIH funded Center for Research in Emerging Infectious Disease (CREID-UWARN).