Today's storyteller is Pat Lennard! He's a PhD student at Leiden University in the Netherlands and from Tasmania. His background is in biotechnology, One Health, and infectious diseases. We start this episode talking about his work with Tasmanian Devils and their transmissible cancer called the Devil Facial Tumor Disease (also known as DFTD). His work with DFTD introduced him to infectious and transmissible diseases and OneHealth. I had never heard of OneHealth but it's basically this idea (and related organizations) that environmental, human, and animal health are all interrelated and connected, and so people from a variety of backgrounds are working on all fronts towards a common goal. Anyway this is a fun chat so enjoy!

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and on the shiny new Twitter account @storytellers42.

You can find Pat Lennard on Twitter @prlennard and on his website: https://www.patricklennard.com/.

The Roslin Institute: https://www.ed.ac.uk/roslin

The World Health Organization (WHO) info about OneHealth: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/one-health

Wikipedia info about OneHealth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Health

Episode referred to: Ingrid Albion (Episode 26) about Tasmanian Devils (plus more wildlife work/legacy programs)

Book List: Viva la Revolucion by Eric Hobsbawm

Recorded on 16 January 2021.