The Human Animal Medicine Project is moving to the University of Washington
In summer 2013 Dr. Rabinowitz will assume a new position at the University of Washington School of Public Health with appointments in Environmental/Occupational Health and Global Health. At UW he plans to continue his work in emerging zoonotic diseases at the human/animal/ecosystem interface and start a “UW Center for Global One Health: Integrating Human, Animal, and Environmental Health”. This Center will build on the work of the Yale Human Animal Medicine Project. Look for updates soon!
Spring Conference: Animal and human health concerns related to natural gas extraction (hydrofracking).
The YHAMP plans a conference in Spring 2013 in Pittsburgh to inform and train Pennsylvania veterinarians about health concerns related to natural gas extraction, and how to manage these concerns. This conference builds on a similar conference for primary care physicians and other human health providers that YHAMP helped stage in July, 2012.
Conference brings human and animal researchers together to fight cancer and infectious diseases
The 2013 Skippy Frank Conference in Comparative Translational Medicine was held in February 2013 at Stanford University and featured scientific exchange about how the clinical care of dogs and other companion animals with cancer could shed light on human cancer therapies, providing advantages over traditional rodent models. Dr. Rabinowitz chaired a session on Infectious Diseases and pathology at the conference. One initiative announced at the conference was the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, an observational study of 3000 golden retrievers that will help elucidate environmental and genetic risks for cancer with application to human health.