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[cid:[log in to unmask]] DIRECTOR'S UPDATE Dr. Deb Miller [cid:[log in to unmask]] Fall is in the air, and it is an awesome time to be outside enjoying the weather and watching the colors of nature erupt! I love this time of year because, although we are watching nature prepare for a long winter sleep, it reminds us of the repeating cycles of life. Of course, it also reminds us of the start of cold and flu season, as we plan our family excursion to get annual influenza vaccinations. Personally, I am hoping that the socially accepted practice of mask wearing will also help to keep the incidence of all infectious respiratory illnesses low. Inside this issue of the UT One Health Initiative newsletter, we feature the One Health Scholar and seed awardee Dr. Matthew Gray and his seed grant project, Socio-Economic Epidemiology of Disease Risk in Wildlife Trade Networks<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/pijac/>. The wildlife trade network is poised to have a major impact on both biodiversity and human health, and thus, it behooves us to work together to develop practices and find avenues that promote healthy trade. We have many events planned for October and November. For example, there will be a Graduate Student Swap<https://tiny.utk.edu/researchswap> on October 22. No, we are not swapping graduate students! Rather, the graduate students are swapping information about their research with each other. This will be an informal meeting and we plan to follow it up with a formal event in the spring. On October 28, Dr. Elizabeth Strand will present a Team Science Workshop on "Liberating Structures for Consilience and APT Methodologies."<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2021/10/Team-Science-Workshop.pdf> If you want to learn more about facilitating consilience within transdisciplinary teams, don't miss this event! On October 30, we'll be participating in Bewitching Beasts<https://ag.tennessee.edu/utg/Pages/bewitching_beasts.aspx>, a Halloween event in the UT Gardens for families with children 10 years of age and younger. We are super excited about this event and hope to see many smiling faces and fun costumes at our table! Then on November 3, we will celebrate One Health Day<http://tiny.utk.edu/onehealthday> with a morning of engaging speakers and a panel discussion on Climate Change followed by an afternoon of exciting outdoor activities. We are looking forward to a full day of learning and active participation! As always, you can keep track of these and many more activities through our website, onehealth.tennessee.edu<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/>. We especially think you will enjoy the podcasts<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/podcasts/> with comedian Shane Maus. We also want you to be aware of the available past Lunch and Learn seminar<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/seminars/> recordings, resources for K-12 educators<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/k12-resources/>, and information on the One Health minor<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/one-health-minor/>. There is even a donation button for those who want to support OHI activities! So please check it out. I hope you enjoy this issue, and as always, I invite you to join us in uniting disciplines to protect and promote the health of all life on Earth! UTOHI RESEARCH Socio-Economic Epidemiology of Disease Risk in a Wildlife Trade Network Investigators: Matthew Gray, Neelam Poudyal, Nina Fefferman People move animals across the globe for all sorts of reasons. When it comes to moving wildlife, one major influence on who moves which animals where and how is the global pet trade. Unfortunately, a lot of the animals that people catch, breed, sell, and keep as pets can carry diseases with them. This not only affects the health of the animals kept as pets, but also has the potential to lead to spill-over, where disease in domestically held animals infects wild populations. This can have especially dire consequences when the pets are transported far from their native range, bringing with them pathogens that wild species around their new homes may not have been exposed to before. There are some steps that importers, breeders, distributors, and retailers of wildlife can take to try to minimize these risks, but it's not always clear how effective they are, and they are frequently costly. In this project, we are looking at the example case of diseases in amphibians being transported as pets into and within the United States. We are surveying businesses involved in the amphibian pet trade and collaborating with the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council to find out what the critical economic, social, and epidemiological factors are that shape the amphibian pet trade network across the country. We're using this understanding to identify trade practices that are most likely to increase the risk of pathogen introduction to new areas. We are taking actual samples from animals in the current network to determine what types of pathogens they might already be carrying and which industry practices are doing best at keeping animals healthy. We are also building mathematical models that will use these findings to determine some efficient strategies for detection and surveillance across the whole network, letting us make efficient choices about how to monitor for the presence of infectious pathogens. [cid:[log in to unmask]] Continue Reading<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/newsletters/> WE'RE SOCIAL! FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @UTOneHealth<https://twitter.com/UTOneHealth> ONE HEALTH IN THE NEWS * Rutgers Inspires Establishment of New Jersey One Health Task Force<https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-inspires-establishment-new-jersey-one-health-task-force> * CDC and Georgia Aquarium Collaborate for One Health Investigation on Otters with SARS-CoV-2<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/responder-stories/CDC-One-Health-GA-Aquarium.html> * How Our Food Choices Cut into Forests and Put Us Closer to Viruses<https://theconversation.com/how-our-food-choices-cut-into-forests-and-put-us-closer-to-viruses-144472> * Hill's and AVMF Support Disaster Relief for People and Animals Impacted by Hurricane Ida<https://www.avma.org/news/press-releases/hills-pet-nutrition-avmf-support-disaster-relief> ONE HEALTH EVENTS Grad Student Research Swap and Social October 22 3:30-5:30pm EST Virtual via Gather.Town Get to know fellow grad students, share your research interests, and explore collaboration opportunities. Space is limited, register at tiny.utk.edu/ResearchSwap<https://tiny.utk.edu/researchswap> Team Science Workshop October 28 12:00-1:00pm EST "Liberating Structures for Consilience and APT Methodologies" Dr. Elizabeth Strand Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/93306234092 Passcode: onehealth One Health Day November 3 9:00-5:00pm EST Student Union 362A/B Join us for a day of presentations and hands-on activities focusing on One Health and climate change. Virtual and in-person options available as circumstances allow. Register at tiny.utk.edu/OneHealthDay<http://tiny.utk.edu/onehealthday>. Event information and previous seminars can be viewed on our website<https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/events/>. 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