CAHFS is proud to announce the next event in the Dr. Will Hueston Speaker Series:

Dr. Elizabeth Mumford, DVM
World Health Organization

“Preparing the world to respond to emerging disease: the One Health work of WHO”

Seminar:

Thursday, September 6, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
215 Ben Pomeroy Student-Alumni Learning Center
St. Paul Campus

VPHPM Resident Rounds:

Friday, September 7, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00pm
386J Animal Science / Veterinary Medicine
St. Paul Campus
informal Q&A and discussion for students & trainees

Download the flyer for this event (PDF)

Dr. Elizabeth Mumford will speak about WHO's One Health vision, and their strategic One Health initiatives and engagement with fellow Tripartite organizations OIE & FAO. She will speak specifically about lessons learned in her work supporting the development of the forthcoming Tripartite Zoonotic Disease guide. The guide, aimed at supporting national governments to prevent infectious disease, has emerged as a One Health effort involving multisectoral partners from across the world.

Dr. Mumford is a veterinarian committed to taking One Health approaches to improve global health. She has been working on infectious diseases at the human-animal-environment interface for over 20 years in the USA, in Europe, and internationally. As a zoonotic influenza epidemiologist, she became fully engaged in the early international conversations that brought the importance of working across sectors and disciplines to the forefront, and has continued to engage as a One Health leader globally.

Working at WHO in Geneva since 2006, Dr Mumford recently joined the One Health Country Operations team in the Department of Country Health Emergency Preparedness and IHR where she continues her focus on partnering across sectors for national capacity building, and on development and implementation of standard mechanisms, tools and processes for multisectoral, One Health collaboration, including developing tools for joint qualitative risk assessment. Most recently, she conceived and constructed an initiative to develop standard guidance and operational tools to address zoonoses in countries, taking a multisectoral, One Health approach.

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The Dr. Will Hueston Speaker Series features key speakers in the areas of animal health and food safety. The Speaker Series was named to honor the legacy of Dr. Hueston, University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus and the first director of CAHFS, and an advocate and champion of inter-disciplinary collaboration in the areas of public health, epidemiology, capacity building, and policy.