ecoHEALTH News, Publications and Events

1st BIODIS workshop "Disentangling the linkages between biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases" (Aix-en-Provence, France, from May 27, 2013 09:00 AM to May 31, 2013 06:00 PM)

Upon invitation

International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance 2013

Scientists involved in ecoHEALTH participated in the fourth International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED) in Vienna, Austria from 15-18, 2013

Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013

Scientists involved in ecoHEALTH activities participated in the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013, which also served as the 2nd International One Health Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand, January 28 - February 2, 2013.

Regional Workshop on the Inter-Linkages between Human Health and Biodiversity in Africa (Maputo, Mozambique, from Apr 02, 2013 09:00 AM to Apr 05, 2013 06:00 PM)

Co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Convention on Biodlogical Diversity (CBD)

Request for applications to co-host the 2016 biennial EcoHealth Conference

Deadline for applications: 8th June 2013

ecoHEALTH project BIODIS granted by CESAB (France) & post-doc position open

The DEBED project BIODIS, Disentangling the linkages between biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases, received a grant from the French Centre for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB). BIODIS is opening a post-doctoral position in disease ecology to coordinate BIODIS

ecoHEALTH publication: Machalaba C, Karesh W and Prieur-Richard A-H, 2012

Integrating health concerns into biodiversity planning, [square brackets] CBD newsletter for civil society, issue 7 October 2012, p.17

Second ecoHEALTH DEBED meeting

18-20 December 2012, New York, USA

EcoHealthNet Workshop 2013 (Ecohealth Alliance, New York, USA, from Jun 17, 2013 09:00 AM to Jun 21, 2013 06:00 PM)

The 2013 Workshop will be under the theme of: One Health Approaches to Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Disease

Second ecoHEALTH DEBED meeting (Ecohealth Alliance, New York, USA, from Dec 18, 2012 09:00 AM to Dec 20, 2012 06:00 PM)

Upon invitation

IMED 2013 (Vienna, Austria, from Feb 15, 2013 08:00 AM to Feb 18, 2013 06:00 PM)

4th International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance

Publication : Landscape and Health: Effects, Potential and Strategies

Bauer N, Mondini M and Bernasconi A (eds) 2012

DIVERSITAS at CBD-COP11, Side event on 8 October at 13:15 - room 1.06

"Biodiversity and Health: Strengthening Synergies and Collaboration" organised by DIVERSITAS, S-CBD and EcoHealth Alliance - See the programme.

ecoHEALTH Publication: Langlois et al. in EcoHealth

Langlois V, Campbell K, Prieur-Richard A-H, Karesh W and Daszak P. Towards a Better Integration of Global Health and Biodiversity in the New Sustainable Development Goals Beyond Rio+20.

ecoHEALTH held a successful training workshop

EcoHealthNet workshop on epidemiology and outbreak investigation, 11-15 June 2012, Madison, USA

The New York Times: Article on the ecoHEALTH project Predict

The Ecology of Diseases published on 14th July

NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program funds pre-conference student workshop in China

The NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Program has provided funding to support an EcoHealth 2012 pre-conference workshop on next-generation DNA sequencing approaches to environment-pathogen linkages. Students with interests in honing their professional communication skills and new pathogen discovery techniques are invited to attend.

ecoHEALTH Publication: Campbell et al. in EcoHealth

Campbell K, Cooper D, Dias B, Prieur-Richard A-H, Campbell-Lendrum D, Karesh W and Daszak P. 2011. Strengthening International Cooperation for Health and Biodiversity. EcoHealth 8(4)

DIVERSITAS at SBSTTA 16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity

ecoHEALTH in collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance and the CBD Secretariat held a very successful meeting on Biodiversity and Health

Side Event during CBD SBSTTA 16 (Montreal - Canada, from May 01, 2012 06:15 PM to May 01, 2012 07:45 PM)

Biodiversity and Health: Linkages and benefits