Environment and Health Seminar Series: Incorporating One Health into emerging zoonoses research, from molecules to ecosystems with Samira Mubareka
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About the Seminar
Emerging zoonotic pathogens are responsible for a range of sporadic disease, outbreaks, epizootics and pandemics. Complex, interconnected processes related to the ecology, inter-species transmission and impact of viral zoonoses requires a systems approach to their prevention and mitigation. Similarly, research in this area requires broad systems thinking that involves multiple disciplines and spanning species and scales of work. Using a One Health approach to understanding coronavirus ecology and biology in small mammals is one example of how to enrich knowledge beyond conventional approaches.
About the Speaker
Dr. Samira Mubareka is a virologist, medical microbiologist and practicing infectious disease physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She received her MD from Dalhousie University and completed her clinical training at McGill University and the University of Manitoba. She completed a research fellowship in viral pathogenesis and transmission at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is currently focused on understanding the biology and transmission of coronaviruses and influenza viruses and their zoonotic spillover, and is a CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Pandemic and Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery.