What is One Health?
One Health is the multi-disciplinary, systems approach that works locally, regionally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal well-being for people and society, the environment, and plants and animals. Together, the three major components make up the One Health triad. The welfare of each is inextricably linked to the others.
The DelVal One Health Working Group - lead by Reg Hoyt, Associate Professor and Chair of the Animal Biotechnology and Conservation Department - is composed of faculty, staff and students committed to One Health. We work to bring educational seminars to DelVal for the community to enjoy and we aspire to infuse One Health into all aspects of a DelVal education. DelVal's brand promise is to provide knowledge and experience to tackle the most important issues of our time, and we feel that the One Health Concept is central to that mission.
Index of DelVal Seminars
This index will be updated periodically as new seminars are held here at DelVal. Many of these are still under construction, so check back again later to see new content.
2024
Putting One Health in Practice for Resilience
Reforming Intellectual-Property Policies to Promote Agricultural Innovation
The History of Conservation and Racism
2023
An Introduction to Horticultural Therapy
On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
Fixation: how to have stuff without breaking the planet
Resetting Our Relationship with Nature: Placing COVID and Wildlife Trade within the Bigger Picture
Climate Change at the Local Level
The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age
2022
The Healing Power of Nature: NatureRx
Wildlife Trafficking: A Grave Threat to Species, Ecosystems, and Humans
Our Shared Waters: A Look at the Delaware River Basin
Environmental Advocacy 101 with Conservation Voters of PA & PennFuture
From Green Initiatives to True Social Good
The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet
Defining Sustainable Agriculture Production in a Changing Climate
Thicker than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
Anthropogeny: Explaining the Origins of the Planet-Altering Ape
Invasive Species Identification and Control for Homeowners and Local Strike Teams
Introduction to Organic, Ecological and Sustainable Land Care
Operationalizing One Health: What's it all about? Why is it so urgent?
2021
Mapping Relationships Between People and Nature
Agricultural Robotics System Design
Land Preservation and Social-Emotional Learning in Elementary Students
A Case of Maasai Enkishon (Well-Being) in Kenya
Strategies for Saving Endangered Species
A One Health Analysis of Food Safety, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Climate Change
Earth Day, 51st Anniversary: Effective Environmental Advocacy
Community-Based Social Marketing: Fostering Healthy and Sustainable Behavior
The Life, Death and Rebirth of the American Chestnut in the Eastern Forest
Horseshoe Crabs and Ecosystem Productivity for Birds and Fish
Vision for a Return: Black Food Sovereignty and the Post-Pandemic City
Viral Communication: Actions, Opportunities, Self-Awareness
2020
The Anthropocene: what is it and are we there yet?
Ecological Responsibility from Scratch: Creating Something from Nothing
Regenerative Capitalism: the Business of Business is Change
One Health and Domestic Cats
Pesticides, Pathogens and Pollinator Declines
Black Swans and Pussycats
Delaware River Basin Commission
PFAs in Pennsylvania: the threat of "forever chemicals"
2019
Climate Change: the Benefits of Doing Something vs Doing Nothing
Climate Change and Penn's Woods: what does the future hold?
Shored Up
Climate Change at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Farming in Climate Chaos
Environmentalism and the Media
One Health, One Planet, One Future
Experiment Eleven
Keeping Special Places Special
American Climate Change Reporting at a Crossroads
Food from the Radical Center
The Land Beneath Our Feet
2018
Ecotoxicology
Disease Ecology and Amphibians
DelVal Faculty Forum
A Thirsty Land: Making & Unmaking of an American Crisis
The Story of Louis Pasteur and World Rabies Day
The Green Amendment
One Health and Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Pork Industry
Cat Wars
Books about One Health
Beyond One Health: From Recognition to Results by Call Number: 362.1 B468 Copy 1ISBN: 9781119194491Publication Date: 2018-04-10Tackling One Health from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book offers in-depth insight into how our health and the health of every living creature and our ecosystem are all inextricably connected.
One Health by Call Number: 362.1 On2aISBN: 9781555818425Publication Date: 2014-03-20This book presents core concepts, compelling evidence, successful applications, and remaining challenges of One Health approaches to thwarting the threat of emerging infectious disease. Written by scientists working in the field, this book will provide a series of "stories" about how disruption of the environment and transmission from animal hosts is responsible for emerging human and animal diseases.
One Health: the theory and practice of integrated health approaches by Call Number: 362.1 On2 Copy 1ISBN: 9781780643410Publication Date: 2015-04-09International authors in the fields of veterinary and animal science, epidemiology, environmental science, tropical medicine, and public health synthesizes the central elements of current One Health research and practice in one broad-ranging volume.
Animals, Diseases, and Human Health by Call Number: 614.56 An54 Copy 1ISBN: 9780313385292Publication Date: 2011-10-20This book explains how animals shape our lives and our health, providing evidence that a "One Health" approach is the only logical methodology for advancing human health in the future.
Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future by Call Number: 304.2 L967s Copy 1ISBN: 9781138334953Publication Date: 2018-09-26This book highlights two of our greatest social problems: changing the way we relate to the planet and to one another, and confronting how we use technology (dataism) for the benefit of both humankind and the planet. It covers a wide range of key topics, including environmental degradation, modern life, capitalism, robotics, financing of war (vs peace) and the pressing need to re-orient society towards a sustainable future.
- Resilience Matters: Flourishing in an Era of Extremes
In 2023, contributors to the Island Press Urban Resilience Project (URP) captured this hopeful, life-affirming work though a series of articles, op-eds, and interviews that have now been collected in a free, downloadable e-book — Resilience Matters: Flourishing in an Era of Extremes.