Rutgers University Hosts Regional One Health Consortium Conference — SEBS Faculty Present on Ticks and Nutrition

From left to right, Amy Papi, Co-Chair, NJ One Health Steering Committee; Joshua W. Miller, professor and chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers; Cheryl Stroud, executive director, One Health Commission, North Carolina; James S. Holt, VMD, veterinarian at Brandywine Veterinary Services, chairman of the Pennsylvania One Health Task Force; Michael E. Zwick, senior vice president for Research at Rutgers; Brint Spencer, VMD, director at Brandywine Zoo, Delaware; and Gloria Bachmann, MD, MMS, associate dean for Women’s Health and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Co-Chair of the New Jersey One Health Steering Committee, and core faculty member of the Rutgers Global Health Institute. Photo: Nick Romanenko.

Rutgers Office for Research brought together scientists and experts to form relationships and collaborate on efforts to improve issues affecting the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment. A group of scientists, experts, and representatives from New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, and West Virginia convened for a mid-Atlantic Regional One Health Consortium Conference at Rutgers University last Friday.   In-person …

Rutgers Launches Citizen-Led Project to Combat Tick-Borne Diseases

The only female Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum, collected in NJ. Photo James Occi.

The Center for Vector Biology (CVB), part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, launched New Jersey Ticks 4 Science!, a citizen-led science project supported by the state that asks New Jerseyans to submit tick specimens they find to help track tick populations and help prevent tick-borne illness. “The purpose of the effort is to better understand who …