Join the Veterinary Services One Health Division in celebrating World One Health Day! In celebration of One Health Week 2019, the One Health Division is hosting the second annual One Health Day Seminar at APHC on 7 November, 2019. This year’s theme is Technology: What’s working, What’s not, and Where do we go from here to impact public health?

As part of our first annual One Health Week at the University of Connecticut, we will include a presentation and discussion on a specific topic related to one health. Our chosen topic is fast fashion/ consumerism. "Fast-fashion" is a term used to explain products from companies that mass produce their items at a rapid rate, using cheap materials. The products end up being cheap for the consumer but in many cases the production was typically in an unethical or wasteful in ways that have severe negative affects on the workers, and the environment.

For the concluding event for One Health Week at the University of Connecticut, we will be hosting two speakers join us in discussing animal health and epidemiology focused on one health. Our speakers are Dr. Lech Szkudlarek, a federal veterinarian and scrapie epidemiologist for USDA, and Dr. Shannon LaDeau, a disease ecologist from the Cary Institute. These two one health experts will be sharing about their experiences in their respective fields and educating attendees on animal health issues including diseases followed by discussion and questions from student facilitators and attendees.