EcoHealth Alliance

EcoHealth Alliance’s #OneHealth mission is to protect and preserve the health of humans, animals, and the environment. We have partners and projects in dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica – get to know us and the people who drive our mission forwards, working tirelessly every day for a healthier and more secure future.

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s highest-risk hotspots for emerging infectious diseases. This region is home to the origin of the SARS pandemic, repeated outbreaks of novel influenza strains, and the spillover of dangerous pathogens like Nipah virus. This is driven by high diversity of wildlife and rapidly expanding human activities – bringing human and wildlife populations closer and closer, making spillover more and more likely. Community-level behavioral interventions, in tandem with targeted surveillance and detection of illness in at-risk human populations, are key public health interventions that can disrupt disease emergence. Learn more about this work and watch the full clip at the link below, and head to our website to learn more about our pandemic prevention efforts in Southeast Asia. https://lnkd.in/eS6fYDqa

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay from EcoHealth Alliance! This year's theme is all about ecological restoration – cleaning our water and regrowing our forests. Read up on the Conservation & Health team's research and work on forest restoration at the link: https://lnkd.in/ednYhDEF

In partnership with Georgetown University's "Quelle Fièvre" project, funded by DTRA, EcoHealth Alliance is proud to support fieldwork in Guinea. Our team focuses on advancing biosafety standards and ensuring animal welfare while conducting disease surveillance to detect the cause of fevers within human communities. With the help of field biosafety teams, EHA has also compiled the first-ever comprehensive field biosafety manual. This resource provides guidance on how to interact safely with wildlife and livestock in the absence of a field setting, no matter what species or location. This project represents the trailblazing next step in field biosafety standards, ensuring that they are not just theoretical guidelines, but practical tools that contribute to global health security and enhance the safety of researchers looking to do the same.

Brazil’s grasslands, rivers, and forests are home to an astonishing number of species. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest, south and east of the Amazon, is a veritable treasure trove of biodiversity. In this region alone, there are more than 1,000 species of birds – 200 of them found nowhere else on Earth. The incredible biodiversity and tens of thousands of species that call this region home are all essential for human livelihoods. The Atlantic Forest biome also provides ecosystem services such as clean water, raw materials, food, crop pollination, and disease regulation to 70% of the Brazilian population. The EcoHealth Alliance Conservation & Health team is in Brazil investigating whether forest restoration efforts influence the risk of zoonotic spillover. Their work is critical in understanding the potential of forest restoration to recover functional biodiversity, regulate disease, and other ecosystem services. In this video, they’ll tell you why this #OneHealth work is crucial for the safety and security of humans, animals, and the environment. Watch the full clip and read more below: https://lnkd.in/eqiEfN6n https://lnkd.in/ednYhDEF

Happy International Day of Biological Diversity from EcoHealth Alliance! This year’s theme is “Be part of the Plan” – and EHA scientists are indeed playing their part. Last week, Dr. Catherine Machalaba, Dr. Paula Prist, and Robin Breen were in Nairobi at the UN Environment Programme headquarters to attend the UN Biodiversity Convention meeting. This isn’t the first time EHA has been a part of global actions on biodiversity – our scientists were also at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, advocating for One Health principles to be adopted in the finalized Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (second and third photos). The EcoHealth Alliance team is proud to collaborate with the IUCN, UNEP, and World Organization for Animal Health to center #OneHealth and be #PartOfThePlan to protect and conserve our planet’s incredible biodiversity!

Happy #InternationalDayofPlantHealth from EcoHealth Alliance! A healthy planet depends on healthy plants, which provide a list of ecosystem services too long to count. We depend on them for the air we breathe and the food we eat. They provide shelter, nourishment, improved air quality, cleaner water, and more – but like all living things, plants are threatened by climate change and habitat loss. EcoHealth Alliance scientists around the world are working to protect ecosystems and the plants that call them home, and recover what has already been lost. In Brazil, our scientists have shown that intact forests have direct positive health effects on human populations, preventing negative health impacts from wildfires. We are now investigating the ecological impacts of forest restoration – hoping to demonstrate that, as the forest recovers after deforestation, disease risk decreases, and the health of humans, animals, and the ecosystem are more secure. The #OneHealth approach in action! 📸: Climbing the yellow meranti tree (Shorea faguetiana), Borneo, Dr. Nichar Gregory, EcoHealth Alliance Research Scientist You can read more about EcoHealth Alliance's work in Brazil, and the International Day of Plant Health, below: https://lnkd.in/ednYhDEF https://lnkd.in/dT-dnV4t

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! Birds play a key role in maintaining human and environmental health (which are really one and the same, as #OneHealth reminds us). Our winged relatives help regulate disease vectors like insects, preventing the spread of dangerous diseases. They are also key pollinators for many plant species, helping support wildflowers and human agriculture. Birds, like many animals, can also be vectors for disease themselves, which is a reminder to always take care when interacting with them and other wildlife. You can read more about World Migratory Bird Day and how to live safely with wildlife at the links below! https://lnkd.in/eMYg4R-9 https://lnkd.in/gZHFyBq 📸: Kingfisher, M. Valitutto

Last month, Women in Science at EcoHealth Alliance (WiSE) took a field trip just up the road from our Manhattan offices to the American Museum of Natural History! At the new Gilder Center, we had a tour from museum staff, and got to visit the new Insectarium and Butterfly Vivarium. WiSE was able to meet up with the museum's Women in Natural Sciences (WINS) group afterwards – a great chance to build community with our peer organizations in New York City. WiSE is a group committed to promoting the advancement of women and other under-represented gender identities in the field of science. WiSE aims to foster a positive, equitable environment, empowering female staff members through networking events, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.

The latest newsletter for #ConservationWorks is hot off the presses! Check out the link below to #subscribe and read more about our community-focused #OneHealth work in Liberia. Conservation Works protects threatened and endangered species, strengthens the management of protected areas, supports communities in becoming less reliant on forest resources through alternative livelihood opportunities, and promotes strong partnerships with local communities, the Liberian government, the private sector, and local, regional, and international conservation stakeholders. https://ow.ly/TnFT50RyRPw Conservation Works is implemented in partnership with Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection Fauna & Flora Solimar International #PADEV, and with support from USAID. ⁠