WesternU One Health Symposium 2026 - Bats, Bugs & Borders: Emerging Zoonoses in a Warming World

We are a faculty-student team at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine in Pomona, CA hosting the annual WesternU One Health Day Symposium, which is open to our health sciences campus and regional colleges and universities. This year, the event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 4-8 pm on the WesternU Pomona campus. Thematically, our focus is Bats, Bugs & Borders: Emerging Zoonoses in a Warming World and will feature talks followed by a panel with all the speakers. We have invited speakers from LA County Veterinary Public Health, our veterinary faculty, San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District and an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology at Cal Poly Pomona.