Animal Health Work Group
Leads: Lauren Charles (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Karen Gruszynski (Midwestern University)
NASA satellites are helping track tiger habitat, offering hope and new insights for conservation as these predators face the consequences of rapid habitat loss. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
This Work Group aims to educate, foster collaboration, and emphasize the bidirectional impacts of animals and the environment to advance scientific knowledge, lead interdisciplinary research initiatives, and inform health security and policy decision-making through the lens of the One Health framework.
Primary objectives
To examine and communicate the impacts of environmental stressors on animal health (domestic, captive, wild) and their connection to human, plant, and ecosystem health.
To elucidate the direct and indirect impacts of animal (domestic, captive, wild) populations on environmental and ecosystem health.
To explore how Earth observations and geospatial data can aid in developing action-oriented solutions to animal-environment-ecosystem health challenges.
