We believe that action is the key to a future where every species and generation can achieve their full health potential.
Catalyzing expertise, ideas, and actions to protect animals, health, and society in a rapidly changing future
Canada’s first think tank dedicated to transforming how we keep the world healthy
Our Purpose
Promote innovative ideas through dialogue on new and emerging health challenges across species and settings.
Empower upcoming agents of change to catalyze revolutionary policies and practices that protect the health of all species and generations
Latest projects
Creating an implementation science agenda for projects aiming to reduce risk in the wildlife trade
Incorporating wildlife health into species conservation plans
Expanding climate change leadership training
Empowering a community led healthy harbour imitative
Connect cattle producers with conservationists to promote wildlife-farming coexistence
Understanding how to create an enabling environment for innovative and disruptive One Health research
What do we do?
Recent outputs
From intention to action – cultivating future-ready One Health agents of change. Research Directions: One Health. 2024. 2:e8. doi:10.1017/one.2024.5
Reflective practice is a prerequisite for One Health development. 2024. One Health Outlook
Imagining veterinary medicine and education in 2040. Can Vet J. 2024. 65(1):82-84.
The continuum of care as a unifying framework for intergenerational and interspecies health equity. Frontiers in Public Health.; 2023. 11:1236569.
A reimagined One Health framework for wildlife conservation. Research Directions: One Health. 2023 1:e12
Scanning educational opportunities to confront grand challenges in animal health. Cambridge Open Engage. 2024. doi:10.33774/coe-2024-c3fml
Animal health in the face of unprecedented global change. The Canadian Veterinary Journal. 2024 1;65(2):189-91
Wildlife Health Capacity Enhancement in Thailand through the World Organisation for Animal Health Twinning Program. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, section Zoological Medicine. 11, p.1462280.
Let’s Work Together
In pursuit of our goal, the Institute will undertake proof-of-concept projects, symposia, research papers, public outreach, policy analysis, and knowledge synthesis, using transdisciplinary and community partnered approaches. Making a “future-ready” animal health sector requires strong partnerships and collaborations. The Institute is committed to working with others to create a better future.