NEW YORK - October 5, 2006 - EcoHealth ONE, the inaugural biennial conference of the International EcoHealth Association (www.ecohealth.net/Conference/site/index.html), will take place October 6 - 10, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Experts from fields as diverse as conservation biology, veterinary medicine and public health, will convene at the University's Pyle Center to discuss current research and to better understand the links between ecology and health. Bringing together researchers, educators and policy makers from around the world, EcoHealth ONE will center on the theme "Promoting Global Health - Sustaining Natural Resources." The message of the conference is that our own health is tied to the health of our ecosystems.

Scheduled keynote speakers include:

• Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor of Microbiology, University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins University; Former Director, NSF "Forging New Science at the Junction of Ecology & Health"
• Howard Frumkin, Professor and Director, CDC National Center for Environmental Health "Public Health and the Built Environment"
• Andy Dobson, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University "Advancing Theory of Infectious Disease Epidemiology"
• Les Real, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Biology, Emory University "Ebola to Rabies: Ecological Modeling for Disease Prediction"
• Rainer Sauerborn, Chair, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany "Climate change and infectious diseases: impacts and adaptation"
• Shu-Yi Zhang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences "Zoonotic Disease Emergence: Discovery of the Cause of SARS in China"

For a full list of speakers and a conference schedule, please visit the EcoHealth website (www.ecohealth.net).

The integrity of human health, wildlife health, and ecosystems are closely connected, and EcoHealth ONE will provide a unique forum to advance emerging, highly interdisciplinary scientific work in this arena; promote the interaction of a diverse audience concerned with sustainable health and environment; and consider how to address challenges in an effective and unified way.

About EcoHealth

EcoHealth is an international, peer-reviewed journal launched in 2004 and published quarterly by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC on behalf of the EcoHealth Journal Consortium . The journal provides a timely forum for research, policy and practice that integrates the ecological and health sciences. EcoHealth is the merger of the complementary journals Ecosystem Health and Global Change and Human Health, and a planned journal of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine. To learn more about EcoHealth please visit www.ecohealth.net.

About the Consortium for Conservation Medicine

The Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), based at Wildlife Trust's New York headquarters, is a unique collaborative institution linking Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Vet. Med. Center for Conservation Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Wildlife Trust and USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC). The CCM is a think-tank for the origin, prediction, and prevention of emerging diseases. The CCM enables scientists from a multitude of disciplines to collaborate on key issues of human, animal, and environmental health and conservation. www.conservationmedicine.org

About Wildlife Trust

Wildlife Trust empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health. Wildlife Trust is a conservation science innovator and leverages research expertise through strategic global alliances. Wildlife Trust pioneered the field of Conservation Medicine, a new discipline that addresses the link between ecological disruption of habitats and the effects on wildlife, livestock and human health.

Founded in 1971 by British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, Wildlife Trust has built its reputation on 35 years of global research, education, training and experience. Research and conservation work in the United States include programs in the metropolitan New York area, Florida and along the coast of the Southeastern U.S.

Internationally, Wildlife Trust trains and supports a network of scientists around the world to save endangered species and their habitats and to protect the health of vital ecosystems. Wildlife Trust created the first egalitarian international network of science-based conservation organizations called the Wildlife Trust Alliance and is a founding partner organization of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, a unique think-tank of prestigious academic institutions.

Visit www.wildlifetrust.org to read more.

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