Johns Hopkins Joins the Consortium for Conservation Medicine

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Johns Hopkins Joins the Consortium for Conservation Medicine

NEW YORK, PALISADES, Jun. 3 -/E-Wire/-- The Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM) welcomes the addition of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences as its fifth institutional partner. Johns Hopkins will be represented by Dr. Jonathan Patz, the Director of its Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change.

The CCM is a unique collaborative institution linking Harvard Medical School's Center for Health & the Global Environment, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine Center for Conservation Medicine, the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC), and Wildlife Trust. Its aim is to study anthropogenic environmental changes and the links between animal, human, and ecosystem health.

CCM Executive Director, Dr. Peter Daszak, and Dr. Patz share the belief that the partnership will provide increased opportunities for education and research in attempts to deal with diseases emerging from degrading ecosystems. "Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will add a new dimension to our consortium. We will be setting up teams of public health scientists working directly with vets, medics and conservation scientists to tackle problems like West Nile virus, malaria and other emerging diseases", says Dr Daszak. Dr Patz adds: "At Johns Hopkins, we understand that to adequately deal with infectious diseases, we need to include an ecosystem-level understanding of how they move between populations, or depend on environmental conditions."

One of the first products from this joint venture will be the soon-to-be-launched journal Ecology and Health that builds from 2 former journals Ecosystem Health and Global Change and Human Health. The new journal is edited by Bruce Wilcox (John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii), with members of the expanded CCM as co-editors. Other initiatives underway are projects on how deforestation is driving malaria in the Amazon, what role West Nile virus will have on bird populations, the emergence of zoonotic viruses from bushmeat in Africa, and studies on dengue fever in Indonesia.

Founded in 1916, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has consistently been ranked the number one school of public health by US News & World Report. Dedicated to the scientific research and education of scientific leaders on international public health issues, JHSPH faculty and students conduct research in 40 countries worldwide, covering a wide range of human health concerns.

The CCM is based at Wildlife Trust headquarters in Palisades, NY.

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