Month: July 2020

Inside the quest to track one of humanity’s tiniest deadly predators

Dr. Katie Clow's research is featured in the September-October issue of The Walrus. Katie Clow is a GIER Affiliate Member and Assistant Professor of One Health in the Department of Population Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College. Her research focuses on the ecology and epidemiology of vectors and vector-borne zoonoses, with a specific emphasis on the blacklegged tick and Lyme disease.

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Cost of preventing next pandemic equal to 2% of COVID-19 economic damage

A new study published in Science by Andrew Dobson and collaborators estimate that the cost of monitoring and preventing zoonotic diseases driven by deforestation and wildlife trade, for a period of 10 years, would amount to only 2% of the economic losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Andean Initiative

We are happy to announce that the Andean Initiative kicks off this week! The Andean Initiative aims to support the well-being of vulnerable rural communities in the Andes of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. You can follow them on Facebook to be part of their International Launch (July 22, 10:00 am EDT) and International Dialogue (July 23, 10:00 am EDT) events.

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Sustainable Development Goals: pandemic reset

In 2015, the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represent global objectives to improve both nature and people’s lives by the year 2030. According to Robin Naidoo and Brendan Fisher, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of those goals are no longer achievable.

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