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Interested in joining our One Health Institute team and working with partners around the world to improve global health and strengthen systems for preventing pandemics? Check out the Operations Specialist position description on our HALI blog:
http://haliproject.org/blog/2017/8/26/join-the-one-health-institute-team-were-hiring-an-operations-specialist-for-our-davis-california-office
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Listening On Location: Redwood Regional Park, Oakland
By Joanna Pawlowska
Reporter Lesley McClurg (left) and David Wolking from USAID’s PREDICT kick off the afternoon at Redwood Regional Park.
Listening party guests introduce themselves at the Old Church picnic site.
Dave Zuckermann from the East Bay Regional Park system describes the resilience of the surrounding redwood forest.
Naturalist Morgan Dill leads the group on a guided nature walk.
A guided walk through the redwoods.
The group listens to a selection of stories from NPR’s science desk.
Michaeleen Doucleff (right) answers questions about her reporting on pandemics.
A peaceful location for listening to radio stories.
Guests engage in a thoughtful discussion about human behavior and pandemics.
photos: @hopeleigh
“This really is an event for millennials!” jokes Morgan Dill as she grabs a La Croix from our cooler.
Warm, animated and a millennial herself, Morgan is a naturalist for the East Bay Regional Parks, where she leads nature walks and other hands-on experiences to introduce curious visitors to the natural magic of the park system.
She’s joined the Generation Listen team at the Old Church Picnic Site at Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California on a Sunday afternoon in July to offer her expertise and energy to our first “Listening On Location” event with NPR’s science desk and Member station KQED. For this immersive take on our listening party model, we invited listeners to join us in the field to experience some of NPR’s reporting in its natural habitat.
The concept formed earlier this year when the folks over at Goats & Soda, NPR’s global health and development blog, wanted to explore ideas for listening parties around their series on pandemics – where they come from, how they start, how they spread.
It turns out that the answer is somewhat clear: us. How would it feel to hear and discuss these stories out in nature with NPR reporters and experts? How would it feel to be reminded that natural ecosystems exist, often silently, in and around our urban environments and play important roles in how human life unfolds? So we took the Listening Party model to the next level.
By the time about 50 have people gathered at Old Church, we settled onto the wooden benches in the amphitheater area to kickoff the intimate afternoon. Dr. Ana Alvarez, the Deputy Manager of the East Bay Regional Park system, describes the history of the parks. She shares anecdotes of concerned and engaged citizens who came together to protect the wild, beautiful area in the region – an area that brings joy to residents while simultaneously playing an important role in curbing the impact of changing climate.
Dave Zuckmann, who has worked with the park for over 30 years, shares some stories about the resilience of the Redwoods and reiterated the role citizens played in the preservation of the lands.
Morgan, the naturalist with EBRPD, invites the group to jump up and follow her into the forest. We don’t go far during the 30 or so minutes of the guided walk (maybe about a quarter mile), but Morgan opens up worlds hidden in plain sight.
We learn that the Western Coast of the U.S. is one of the only regions in the world that houses redwood trees: towering, fog-absorbing giants. The trees, which can grow up to 300 feet tall, don’t have any predators and feature shallow root systems that interlock with those of their neighbors. This helps the connected trees stand – but also allows them to distribute resources via their connected root system to a tree in need. Wild!
Morgan fields questions like a pro, and leads us back to the benches at Old Church, where a portable blue tooth speakers now stands in the center of the clearing ready for our radio listening session.
We meet NPR’s Science Correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff, KQED’s health reporter Lesley McClurg and David Wolking, who works on USAID’s PREDICT project out of UC Davis. Michaeleen explains the Pandemic project and sets the scene for her reporting trip to Malaysia, where she ventured into the rainforest with an expert looking to find new viruses that might lead to the next pandemic. We listen – and then our engaged group helps drive the discussion with questions and ideas that span the gamut from the physical process of virus collection to what we can ask our senators to do to help protect and prepare us for the next pandemic (hint: protect science and research funding and support organizations like the CDC and USAID).
To ground the global discussion locally, we listen to Lesley’s reporting for KQED about Zika in California. The good news? Screens and AC help prevent its rapid spread by mosquito in the Golden State.
Afternoon light cuts in through the branches shading our listening clearing as we begin to wrap our discussion. We’ve spent three hours in the park, learning from rangers, naturalists, scientists and journalists – and making new friends among trees that have been around longer than any of us. It is exciting and calming all at once. One Location On Listening experience down, three more to go. Wanna join? More info on those here. See you next weekend, Mount Rainier National Park!
You can hear the stories we listened to here and here – and find all of NPR’s reporting about pandemics here. Follow along as we head to other locations with #listeningonlocation.
Had a great time at this event with #NPRGenerationListen a few weeks ago, check out their next events if you get the chance...
In June 2017 we released PREDICT’s semi-annual report and put a ton of effort into data visualizations and infographics to tell our story about preventing pandemic threats. Find the full report here...
Check out PREDICT’s 2016 Annual Report to learn what our amazing teams in over 28 countries are doing to build global capacity for surveillance, detection, and prevention of emerging pandemic threats.
Last week our new article was published in the journal Pastoralism: Boma to banda - A disease sentinel concept for reduction of diarrhoea
The article describes a study the HALI Project team conducted in Tanzania way back in 2008 to explore diarrheal diseases in calves that might pose a risk to people in a pastoral management system. We worked with Maasai, Barabaig, and Sukuma tribes to sample their animals and to learn about calf management, then dove into some earlier HALI survey data that explored household health to determine the extent to which diarrheal disease is a problem for pastoralists. We also developed an animal sentinel concept for diarrheal diseases using calves that could be a model for pastoralists for early warning of infections in animals that may be a health threat to people. Used in tandem with really basic but effective risk mitigation practices this suite of local interventions may be valuable for reducing diarrheal diseases from herd to household (or boma to banda)...
You can check it out at this link.
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Our article on a creative approach for sampling non-human primates for infectious diseases, led by the brilliant Dr. Tierra Evans, has been making waves in the media and was featured in the New York Times today.
The article describes a method Tierra developed using dental ropes marinaded with tasty stuff like fruit jam or mango juice that monkeys chew on and then discard, which researchers then collect and take it to the lab to test for known and novel viruses.
We helped Tierra field test the method with temple monkeys in Kathmandu, Nepal for the PREDICT project with partners at the Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal. Tierra is actually in Nepal again now to train a new CMDN team on the method, hoping additional research sheds light on potential diseases the monkeys could transmit to people, as temple monkeys are often aggressive little scavengers, biting and scratching people for food around heavily trafficked religious and tourist sites.
At long last... the PREDICT final report, at least from 2009-2014 as PREDICT is continuing on for another 5 years with the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats program. Friends Terra Kelly and Paulina Zielinska at UC Davis did an amazing job as editors and this report (really a book at 300+ pages) is a fundamental introduction to disease surveillance in wildlife and human populations, viral detection, and One Health. You can download the report at report.predict.global or read it online via Issuu.
Thanks to the talented Dr. Jessica Smith-Schwind, PLOS One released our article on use of local media to improve digital surveillance systems today. The article describes an evaluation Jessica, Woutrina Smith and I organized with PREDICT teams, investigating the utility of digital media surveillance systems like HealthMap in developing country settings where print and non-digital media still dominate. If you're interested in media, outbreak intelligence, or how to improve digital systems in areas underrepresented by technology (often the same areas considered hot spots for disease emergence, disaster, and conflict), then check it out...
A few weeks ago we started a new project with our PREDICT Nepal partners at CMDN to look into human-animal contact at a few sites where we sampled wildlife for zoonotic viruses earlier in the year. CMDN wanted to pilot test a mobile data collection platform that a start-up (Rooster Logic) in Kathmandu developed. The app, REMO, is pretty great actually. Our field team conducts interviews at households in Kathmandu using a tablet, and the data is pushed to REMO's server for real-time tracking and archival. Using tablet GPS, locations of interviews are geo-tagged and displayed on REMO's Open Street Map enabled interface. Since we started the pilot, I've been able to log in, pull the data, check that we are sticking to our game plans for study design and sample sizes, and check data quality. So far so good, except that 40% of the free field data entries are in Nepali; it is way easier to record responses verbatim than to translate on the fly. I give REMO thumbs up, but I have no idea what it costs. Ask a Rooster.
Foraging for Emerging Viruses - HALI Scientist and good friend Dr. Liz Vanwormer from UC Davis led a team into the forests of the Udzungwa Mountains to track baboons and monkeys and forage for specimens for the PREDICT project. These specimens are now at the UC Davis laboratory where they will undergo screening for viruses as part of a global initiative funded by USAID designed to detect and prevent the spillover of pathogens from animals to people. Check out the slideshow from Liz's field photos on the HALI blog here.
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The Adventures of Little Wolf, as imagined by Andrew and Michael Wolking and Jessica Darga...
Happy birthday to my little brother Andrew today. It's been fun having him around...
The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has just established an Office of Global Programs and appointed a new Associate Dean, Dr. Patricia Conrad. I've been working with Dr. Conrad on a few projects to kickstart the new office, elevate the awareness of UC Davis SVM global outreach and to improve operations. For starters, we are developing a database of faculty, students, and staff who are active globally, with plans to interactively map School of VetMed global reach and impact. This map, an early prototype using MapBox's extremely rapid custom mapping features, shows veterinary students and STAR fellows traveling abroad for education, research, or work this summer. We will be polishing these maps over time to feature on the new UC Davis Global Health site, a collaborative with our School of Medicine. I've also been toying with StatPlanet and the GoogleMaps API and would love to hear feedback on best use of these mapping tools for ease of data automation and maintenance over time.
Seven years ago I interviewed a girl from Malinzanga village in Iringa, Tanzania at the WCS offices to assist a research project on diarrheal disease in calves and children among pastoralist in the Ruaha Ecosystem. Asha Makweta, a shy girl at first, was my first choice, and we spent several months together in the villages around Ruaha doing interviews, sampling calves, eating chipsi mayai, and learning from one another. I learned about village life, some Kiswahili, and about her family. She learned how to do interviews, conduct research, sample animals, and eventually took over the project when I left for the US, and she did a great job. Asha helped me get a masters degree at UC Davis, and with friends, we helped her get her certificate in community development. Now all grown up, a mother to a beautiful child, Asha is helping implement the Strengthening Pastoral Livelihoods project with HALI, working with the same pastoralists to improve nutrition, education, and health through customized education interventions. This month, she published a research brief with HALI team leaders and friends Chris Gustafson and Liz Vanwormer. Check it out on the HALI blog... We are really proud of Asha, and hope we get to keep working together for a long time.
How Breakthroughs Happen. "Ideas alone are good but not good enough -- it takes collaboration to make things happen." This is a great joint talk at this year's UC Global Health Day by Jonna Mazet from our One Health Institute (OHI) and Andrew Hargadon from the Graduate School of Management.
The point: innovation isn't good enough to effect change, you need a network to push new ideas into action. Along those lines the our OHI team has started a very fledgling partnership with the UC Davis Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's Sustainable AgTech Innovation Center (SATIC) to connect the One Health community with the innovational and entrepreneurial skill set to move research and ideas from thought to practice.
We're hoping to launch a SATIC-OHI workshop in the fall, so let me know if you're interested...
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Tomorrow I am lucky enough to teach an undergraduate class in One Health for a good friend and colleague Dr. Smith. The best part of teaching is finding obscure images and articles, the tangents to research needed to build a workable talk or presentation. A few nights ago I saw this viral storm of an octopus stuck in a jar that could open the lid from the inside, literally getting out of the box. This talk will be an homage to octopi, whose tentacles can hunt when severed and in isolation, but when coordinated are capable of amazing feats. If it fails, no worries. It was fun to build...
The UC Global Operations project (UC GO) is connecting UC campuses (UCSF, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and others) to develop a global operations support hub for faculty, students, and staff working and training internationally. We are in the design process now, building up the UC GO online resource hub, so if you work with UC and want to provide insight on useful resources and content that would enhance your global activities, take our short survey (5 mins).
Only we can make UC GO. I love using UC GO in sentences. Watch UC GO. See UC GO. Take UC GO survey. Take it! It's available until May 30th.
