One Health Month Seminar:”2023 Maui Wildfires: One Health Dimensions and Response”, Neil Vezeau

When

01/09/2024    
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Event Type

Zoom Webinar

Zoom Meeting ID: 948 7897 3057
Passcode: 735346
Link: https://zoom.us/j/94878973057?pwd=Qno2RkRKNFUrVVFLd080VWpqTWVFQT09

Neil Vezeau, DVM, MPH
Founder, International Student One Health Association

The 2023 Maui wildfires were devastating for the people, animals, and environment of the Valley Isle. Meeting the destruction across these domains, many local, national, and international efforts from a diversity of actors in a One Health fashion. This talk will focus on the burn patients in a shelter medicine context, effected large animal operations, ecological effects downstream from the fires, and the coordination of response efforts from state, federal, private, and non-governmental organization actors.

For more information, check out the UH One Health website at https://manoa.hawaii.edu/onehealth/ or contact Jerrisa Ching (email: jching21@hawaii.edu).

Sponsored by the UH Manoa One Health Workgroup, John A. Burns School of Medicine, and the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology.