Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD
Keynote topic: Wondering what One Health is all about and why it is so urgent for today’s decision making?
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Observe COVID-19, the global avian influenza epizootic and today's salmonella challenges. This presentation will share the full scope of One Health and highlight why it is so critical that we develop working relationships across sectors ‘ahead’ of zoonotic health crises and food safety emergencies. It will provide a very brief overview of the global One Health movement and suggest relevance of One Health thinking and acting for the poultry industry and for sustainable food systems.
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Biography
Cheryl Stroud is a veterinarian with a PhD in endocrine physiology and a passion for conveying the urgency of implementing One Health thinking, acting and decision making at all levels of academia, research, clinical practice, government and policy. She has enjoyed professional experiences in Industry, Academic Teaching and Research, Private Veterinary Practice and as a One Health practitioner.​​
Since 2013 Cheryl has served as Executive Director of the One Health Commission (OHC), a non-profit organization chartered in Washington, D.C., headquartered in central North Carolina and working globally to ‘connect’ One Health stakeholders, to ‘create’ teams that work across disciplines to ‘educate’ about One Health. Through its volunteer working groups the OHC provides opportunities for individuals and organizations to transcend institutional and disciplinary boundaries to transform the way that human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health professionals work together to jointly address today’s One Health challenges. Among its many initiatives, in 2016 the Commission spearheaded creation of an annual global One Health Day now in its 10th year of celebration around the world every year on November 3.