One Health PACT
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One Health PACT is a multidisciplinary research project in the Netherlands. Our aim is to prepare for potential arboviral introduction and spread.
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Joined November 2019
🐦⬛💧🦟 New One Health PACT publication from Martha Dellar: “The Future Abundance of Key Bird Species for Pathogen Transmission in the Netherlands” published in the EcoHealth journal @SpringerNature . Read more via: #onehealth #mosquitos #outbreaks
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Promotion time! 🦟💧🐦⬛On Thursday, the 3rd of July, Tessa Nelemans, will defend her PhD thesis titled: ‘Outsmarting the host: unraveling virus-host interactions and their impact on Usutu virus replication’ at @UniLeiden. Attend online at 10.00 via:
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#Biodiversity also plays a crucial role in our research on the spread and transmission of #mosquito-borne diseases. Read more about our research and publications: #Biodiversity #OneHealthPACT #mosquitos #OneHealth.
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May 22nd, 2025 - International Day for Biological Diversity! 🌍🌱. Biodiversity urgently needs to be protected and conserved, as it is essential to support healthy ecosystems that are vital for human, animal, and environment.
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Promotion time! 🦟💧🐦⬛. On Wednesday the 14th of May @PaulinedeBest will defend her PhD thesis titled: ‘Knowledge to Practice, translation of scientific outputs to preparedness and response for mosquito-borne viruses’ at @ErasmusMC. Attend online via:
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Welcome to the next three Biology and Laboratorial Research students from @AvansHogeschool! Roy van Engelen, Mila Willemsen and Michael Palinckx will be part of our One Health PACT projects. Who are these students? Go to: #onehealth #mosquitos
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Promotion time!🦟On Tuesday March 18 Sam Boerlijst, will defend his PhD thesis titled: ‘An Egg is Always an Adventure: anthropogenic impacts on Culex pipiens population dynamics’ at the Center for Environmental Sciences of @UniLeiden. Attend online via:
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📖One Health PACT publication from Sander Koenraadt, Emmanuelle Münger, Maarten Schrama, Jeroen Spitzen, Seren Altundağ, @ReinaSikkema , @1986Bom, @MarionKoopmans and @BlomRody: “Overwintering of Usutu virus in mosquitoes, The Netherlands”. Read more via:
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📖 One Health PACT publication from our PhD Sam Boerlijst: 'In the heat of the moment: Including realistic thermal fluctuations results in dramatically altered key population parameters,' in Ecology and Evolution Wiley Online Library. Read more via:
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Read the full article: #OneHealth #InfectiousDiseases #Collaboration #KnowledgeExchange #Preparedness.
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
Background The emergence of mosquito-borne viruses (MBVs) in Europe emphasizes the need for preparedness and response plans. This requires knowledge integration and collaboration across the human,...
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These findings show that we need to do more to involve organizations in the environmental domain and at the local level to strengthen preparedness and response to these diseases.
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💡 Why is this important for our project?.Our goal is to ensure that scientific knowledge from our project reaches the right organizations and is applied in practice.
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Additionally, while collaborations and knowledge exchange are strong at the international and national levels, connections with the local level are scarce.
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🔍 What did we find?.There is already significant collaboration between human and animal health organizations, as well as with the vector domain. However, connections with the environmental domain are almost entirely missing.
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This calls for a One Health approach: integrated collaboration between organizations across these domains. But is this happening? And are organizations from the national to the local level involved?.
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🦟 Why is this research important?.Mosquito-borne viruses are a ‘One Health’ threat because their transmission depends on hosts (humans and animals), vectors (mosquitoes), and the environment where they intersect.
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🌟 Article Published! 🌟.@PaulinedeBest conducted research into collaborations and knowledge exchange between organizations in the Netherlands focusing on mosquito-borne infectious diseases:
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Promotion time!🦟💧🐦⬛. On 13 February 2025 @_El_Marshall_, one of our PhD’s, will defend her PhD thesis titled: ‘Storming the Castle – Usutu virus vs. West Nile virus: insights into neuroinvasion’ at the @erasmusuni. Attend online at 13.00 via: #onehealth
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📖One Health PACT Publication! @TjommeM researched: “Effects of immune status on stopover departure decisions are subordinate to those of condition, cloud cover and tailwind in autumn-migrating common blackbirds Turdus merula.”. Read more via:
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Promotion time!🦟💧🐦⬛. On 17 December 2024 Kiki Streng, one of our PhD’s, will defend her PhD thesis titled: ‘From research to preparedness: A study of zoonotic arboviruses in animals, the Netherlands’ at the @WUR. Attend online at 15.30 via: #onehealth
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