kathleen alexander

Today my guest Kathleen Alexander, Associate Professor of Wildlife in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, and I discuss One Health and her work at Virginia Tech and in Botswana. “One Health” is the notion that the complex problems facing our local and global communities can only really be addressed with an approach that encompasses societal, animal, and environmental components in an integrated manner. It is no longer enough to evaluate the health status of an individual in isolation. We must engage the complexity of the systems- land use, disease and other complex changes occurring in our water and air, with consideration as to where the patient lives, interactions with animals and other humans, water and food, and household responses. When combined, science, technology and imagination, we have the tools to collectively and collaboratively create critical and crucial Wholistic solutions: To Invent The Future

Today my guest Kathleen Alexander, Associate Professor of Wildlife in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, and I discuss One Health and her work at Virginia Tech and in Botswana. “One Health” is the notion that the complex problems facing our local and global communities can only really be addressed with an approach that encompasses societal, animal, and environmental components in an integrated manner. It is no longer enough to evaluate the health status of an individual in isolation. We must engage the complexity of the systems- land use, disease and other complex changes occurring in our water and air, with consideration as to where the patient lives, interactions with animals and other humans, water and food, and household responses. When combined, science, technology and imagination, we have the tools to collectively and collaboratively create critical and crucial Wholistic solutions: To Invent The Future

Join special guest, Dr. Kathleen Alexander PhD, DVM of CARACAL Biodiversity Center, Botswana and Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech who has been selected as one of three, African regional experts by World Health Organization and the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat to participate in a regional workshop in Mozambique to present to national health and biodiversity experts from various African countries on integrating health and biodiversity into policy and planning. The objective is to contribute to the implementation of the Convention on the Biological Diversity in the WHO African Region, by providing a forum to national health and environment/biodiversity experts from African Parties to the CBD on actions to be taken in their respective countries. LINKS: http://www.vt.edu, www.Facebook.com/caracalbotswana, www.caracal.info, www.blogspot.healthbotswana.com