Viewpoints on Health:
One Health

CHBS provides the opportunity to explore the One Health approach. It is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary strategy that recognizes the interconnection between human health, animal health, and environmental health. It emphasizes that the health of people is closely linked to the health of animals and our shared environment.

Opportunities

Invitations will be sent to faculty, staff and students to attend speaker events.

About the Speaker

Bernadette Dunham
DVM, PhD

Dr. Bernadette Dunham is with the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (2016 to present) where her focus is on One Health issues.  Dr. Dunham was appointed as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources for two terms (2019 to 2026); and in 2023 she was appointed to the ad hoc Committee to address Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals (the consensus study will be completed in 2025). Dr. Dunham served a two-year term as an Advisor to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) One Health Initiative from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Dunham has served the FDA as Director of the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) from 2008-2016, Deputy Director of CVM and Director of the Office of Minor Use and Minor Species from 2006-2008, and Deputy Director of the Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation from 2002-2006.  Before beginning her government career, she was an Assistant Director with American Veterinary Medical Association’s Governmental Relations Division in Washington, D.C. from 1995-2002.  Dr. Dunham served as Director of Laboratory Animal Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, N.Y. from 1987-1995.  She was a Resident, Department of Pathology, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. from 1987–1988.  Dr. Dunham received the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) Franco-American Visiting Scientist Fellowship for a semester in Paris, France (1985).

Before returning to academia in 1979 to pursue her Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral research in cardiovascular physiology at Boston University, Dr. Dunham was in private veterinary practice for four years in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.  Dr. Dunham received her D.V.M. degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and her Ph.D. from Boston University, MA. 

Dr. Dunham currently serves on the National Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance, Research and Education (NIAMRRE) Leadership Council and the Executive Advisory Board for the Center for Animal and Human Health in Appalachia (CAHA), Lincoln Memorial University. Dr. Dunham is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the American Public Health Association, and the American Association of Food Safety and Public Health Veterinarians.  She is an Honorary Diplomate and an Awardee of the esteemed K.F. Meyer - James H. Steele Gold-Headed Cane Award from the American Veterinary One Health Society (founded as the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society).  She has served on peer review panels for the National Academies of Science, the American Heart Association - New York State Affiliate, United States Department of Agriculture-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, Competitive Programs, and the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Dunham served as the Chairperson for the 18th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods.