This évent is organiser by the One Health club of the Université of Montréal. The objective of the event is to discuss the role of students in the One Health initiative. It will address the question: how each discipline can contribute to the One Health initiative. It will include presentations from researchers and students.

Zooeyia, which is recognition of the positive benefits of animals to human health, and is an essential component of One Health. Therapy dogs are well behaved family pets that enjoy the company of humans. Therapy dog and human handler teams visit at a range of places where individuals do not typically have access to a pet, such as hospitals. Extensive vetting and testing is typically involved in becoming a therapy dog team, but limited education is provided to handlers to increase their awareness and skills in areas that would support their visits.

Fatal Jump: Tracking the Origins of Pandemics is a journey, by leaps and bounds around the world and through time, to examine the extraordinary circumstances—evolutionary, ecological, and otherwise— that converged and gave birth to some of our most wicked and unexpected plagues and pandemics. Beyond the traditional historical account of human infectious diseases, this book unveils commonalities and coincidences that, throughout the ages, consistently preceded or triggered the emergence of new infectious diseases or the flare-ups of old ones. The pace of disease emergence is accelerating.