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he PREDICT Consortium was a functionally collaborative and fully integrated working team that benefited from the experience of world
leaders in zoonotic disease surveillance, epidemiology, disease ecology, and risk characterization.
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) LEADS • Andrew Clements • Murray Trostle • Alisa Pereira • August Pabst
LEAD CONSORTIUM INSTITUTIONS FOR PREDICT • UC Davis’ One Health Institute is active all over the world, working at the interface of animals, people, and the environment to solve complex problems that impact health and conservation. • EcoHealth Alliance is the first group to identify bats as the reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses, to define hotspots of emerging diseases, and identify drivers of disease emergence. • Metabiota, Inc. (formerly known as Global Viral Forecasting, Inc.) has made seminal discoveries on the role of hunting of nonhuman primates and food handling in moving animal pathogens to humans. • Smithsonian Institution and the National Zoo are among the founders of the field of conservation biology. • Wildlife Conservation Society was the first conservation organization with a dedicated team of wildlife veterinarians deployed around the world, with programs focused on environmental stewardship and health problem-solving. Other global partners include Columbia University; Boston Children’s Hospital’s HealthMap; International Society for Infectious Disease; and the University of California, San Francisco.
REDUCING PANDEMIC RISK, PROMOTING GLOBAL HEALTH
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