Global Health Research

Graduate student: Tina Petersen

Supervisor: Karin Orsel

Supervisory committee: Susan Kutz and Cameron Knight

One Health and parasitism: the ecology, epidemiology, and mitigation of helminth infections of humans and livestock in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. 

Graduate student: Manar Eltantawy

Supervisor: Karin Orsel

Supervisory committee; Jennifer Hatfield, Susan Kutz, Frank van der Meer

Vision and mission of the UCVM one health rotations in Tanzania and Northern Canada (Northern rotations)

Vision:

Through international, national, intercultural and interdisciplinary experiences in the one health rotations DVM students will be able to broaden their view on the roles they can play in their future veterinary profession. We can provide DVM students with a unique educational and research experience to achieve this and by doing so we will deliver a valuable service to increase the livelihoods of the local population of the NCA in Tanzania and in the communities of Northern part of Canada.

 Mission:

  • Train students in the specific one health field, where ecosystem health, human health and veterinary health become one discipline.
  • Engage in health research benefiting both students, faculty and people of the NCA and Northern Canada
  • Build strong, equitable partnerships with national and international institutions
  • Strategically address concerns of the often neglected and undernourished population of the NCA and Northern Canada

Girls voice project:

Each year the Faculty of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine runs a field school and works with an under-served population in rural Tanzania on One-Health issues.  Through our engagement with the community, together we have established the “Tanzania Girls Voice Development Fund” that will send girls from this community to secondary school with the goal of them being leaders in their community

In our first year we enrolled 2 girls and we hope to continue to expand the program each year.  Your support is crucial for improving the health of girls in this community. To give to the Tanzania Girls Voice Development Fund; link