UT One Health Initiative

10/27/2026

Join us on October 30 for Frightening and Fantastic Fungi, a fascinating, Halloween-themed celebration of One Health Day!

🌱 Discover how fungi impact human, animal, plant, and environmental health
🍄 Explore the mushrooms of Appalachia
🍽️ Learn about fungi’s amazing contributions to the culinary arts
🎃 Enjoy fungi-forward refreshments and show off your Halloween costume!
📍 UT Student Union, 262 B/C
🕘 9 AM–3:30 PM; drop in or stay all day
🧡 FREE and open to all
🎁 RSVP in advance to reserve your Halloween goody bag!
➡️ Swipe for the schedule, or head to https://onehealth.tennessee.edu/fungi/ for more info.
OneHealth SpookyScience

08/11/2026

03/23/2026

🎤 Tennessee RiverLine: A Strategy for Restorative Recreation
🚣🏻‍♀️Brad Collett, TNRL Executive Director
🗓️ Thursday, March 26, 12-1pm
💻 Zoom

Reframing the Tennessee River, adjacent public lands, and river communities as a 1.2 million acre ‘River Park,’ Tennessee RiverLine is an initiative of UT Extension that advances a novel concept of restorative recreation along the 652-mile Tennessee River through recreation programming, environmental education, infrastructure development, and destination marketing. Join this seminar to learn more about how the Tennessee RiverLine vision is coming to life through partnerships that advance One Health principles and deliver UT’s land grant mission.

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This seminar is presented by the University of Tennessee One Health Initiative (UT OHI). Each month, OHI hosts speakers from across UT, the nation, and world to discuss their work, how they tackle current global challenges, and how solutions can be achieved by viewing these problems through a One Health lens. Seminars are held via Zoom on the last Thursday of the month, January – October, from 12-1pm Eastern Time.

09/17/2025

Advancing Our Knowledge of Environmental Enteropathy: Overcoming Historical Barriers with Emerging Technologies
📅 September 25
🕛 12–1 PM Eastern
📍 Zoom: tiny.utk.edu/JessGrembi

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Jessica Grembi to our One Health seminar series. Jess is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University. Her lab focuses on the microbial ecology of the human small intestine, with a special emphasis on environmental enteropathy — a subclinical but widespread condition affecting up to 90% of children in low- and middle-income countries.

💡 Discover how emerging technologies are helping to break through longstanding research barriers in global child health.
🔬 Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge science!

07/11/2025

Later this month, Paula Rozo-Lopez will join us to talk about the interactions between insects, viruses, disease, and food security, and what those interactions mean through the lens of One Health—the deep connection between environmental, animal, and human health.

🗓️ Complex Interactions Among Insects, Viruses, Disease, and Food Security
🎤 Speaker: Paula Rozo-Lopez, PhD
📅 Thursday, July 31 | 🕒 12:00 - 1:00pm ET | 💻 Zoom

Dr. Rozo-Lopez is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Microbiology. Her current research aims to understand the evolutionary and transmission patterns mediating the heritability of insect-specific viruses in agriculturally important insects.

For more information or to register via Zoom, visit: https://tiny.utk.edu/FoodSecurity

06/25/2025

Launched in 2023, the UT Information Integrity Institute harnesses interdisciplinary research to assist the public in discerning credible versus untrustworthy information in today’s rapidly evolving media landscape. On June 26, the institute team joins us via Zoom to present “Navigating Truth in the AI Era: Science Communication and Information Integrity.” Register today for this timely and important conversation!

This event is part of a seminar series presented by the UT One Health Initiative which explores global health challenges and how solutions may be achieved with a One Health approach. Tune in via Zoom the last Thursday of the month from 12:00 - 1:00pm Eastern. More info at onehealth.tennessee.edu/seminars.

05/27/2025

Tune in this Thursday, May 29 at noon to Mental Health in Shared Ecologies: Identifying, Strengthening, and Expanding the Mental Health Component within the One Health Framework! Register at tiny.utk.edu/MentalHealth.

Dr. Chris Weatherly is an assistant professor in the University of Georgia School of Social Work. He is licensed clinical social worker whose research areas of interest include strengthening rural mental health systems and unpacking the intersections of climate change, environmental degradation, species loss, and mental well-being. He has over 10 years of experience as a mental health professional and has worked within acute psychiatric settings, post-disaster, and rural contexts with populations with severe mental illness, substance use concerns, and complex trauma histories.

02/10/2025

Tune in at noon on February 27 to hear Dr. Mason-D’Croz present “Contending with the Polycrisis in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Human Health.”

Daniel Mason-D’Croz is a senior research associate in the Department of Global Development at . His research focuses on food system transformation broadly, having work on a range of topics in this space such as, assessing climate adaptation and mitigation challenges, estimating potential impacts of current and future diets on public and planetary health, exploring the role of technology and innovation to contribute to alternative food systems, and identifying potential vulnerabilities in current and future food systems.

This seminar is presented by the University of Tennessee One Health Initiative (UT OHI). Each month, OHI hosts speakers from across UT, the nation, and world to discuss their work, how they tackle current global challenges, and how solutions can be achieved by viewing these problems through a One Health lens. Seminars are held via Zoom on the last Thursday of the month, January – October, from 12-1pm Eastern Time. Register via zoom at https://tiny.utk.edu/ClimateAndHealth.

06/05/2024

Save the date, this one’s gonna be cool!

Our monthly seminar series continues on June 27 with guest Konstantine Vlasis, a alum and composer of ecological sound. His projects focus on climate communication and creative environmental storytelling in the form of composed musical works, data sonification, research podcasts, and audio essays.

Register via zoom at tiny.utk.edu/GlacierSoundsSeminar.

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05/23/2024

Did you know that May is ? Join us next Thursday, May 30 from 12-1pm to hear "An Update on Lyme Disease from a Southeastern Perspective." This month's One Health seminar is presented by Nicole Szafranski, Parasitology Resident at the UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Register via Zoom at tiny.utk.edu/LymeDiseaseSeminar.