As wildfire season rages along the west coast, wrecking havoc on rural communities from California to Washington state, there is no better time to learn how to prepare, manage, and plan for disasters. In an ongoing partnership with RDPC and The Department of Homeland Security, WIFSS trained a diverse group of professionals on creating a thorough disaster preparedness and response plan.
Finding real world solutions to issues facing Sweden and the U.S. from threats of agroterrorism is the driving force behind the WIFSS-Sweden partnership. A three-member delegation of Swedish government officials met with WIFSS personnel in April as part of an ongoing collaboration to better understand the dangers and vulnerability of antagonistic threats to food and agriculture.
Davis Warriors was the name of the team. Seven teammates worked together on a learning activity called, “Good Guys vs. Bad Bugs,” in which they explored the importance of sanitary practices on a dairy farm to protect animals from the disease-causing bacteria E. coli.
An intentional release, or natural occurrence of diseases associated with pathogens, or biological and chemical toxins, can adversely impact the safety and security of plant and animal foods. WIFSS partners with multiple academic institutions and government agencies to address the safety and security of food for people and animals.
Faculty from multiple backgrounds, teaching various technological approaches, are lighting the fire of discovery in the future leaders of the proposed One Health Center for Food Safety and Animal Health at NAU. With mentoring from visionary faculty, graduate students will go forward to be the leaders in the One Health Center.
It was a war on plastics that earned Return of the King the championship medals of the 2018 Lunchtime Challenge. The spirit of teamwork instilled at the UC Davis, WIFSS-coordinated One Health Conference will serve as a model for collaboration in future endeavors for addressing the health of people,l animals and the environment in which we all live.
Be prepared for your next hiking expedition. Take precautions against heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Raising awareness about the link between people, animals, and the environment, as we do in our conferences, is the first step in lighting the fire of One Health and its importance in improving food safety from the soil to the consumer.
Home / Research / Publications Journal Articles 2020 Garcia, S.N., B.I. Osburn, and M.T. Jay-Russell. 2020. One health for food safety, food security, and sustainable food production. Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 28 January 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00001 Li X., E. M. Antaki Zukoski, T. H. B. Nguyen, B. R. Hoar, M. T. Jay-Russell, and E. R. Atwill. 2020. Identifying the shedding…
Home / Our Team / Rob Atwill Contact ratwill@ucdavis.edu Vet Med 3B Phone: (530) 754-2154 Fax: (530) 752-5845 Rob Atwill DVM, MPVM, PhD Director Contact ratwill@ucdavis.edu Vet Med 3B Phone: (530) 754-2154 Fax: (530) 752-5845 Research Interests Dr. Atwill’s major research focus is on the epidemiology and medical ecology of infectious diseases potentially transferred between livestock, wildlife and…