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How to get involved with the EpiCenter?

If you are seeking to establish a research collaboration, please visit our team members page to help identify the best person to connect with based on your research interests. 

Students and early career professionals should visit our training page for more information about research internship, fellowship, and mentorship programs we participate in. Each program has its own recruitment timeline and processes, and more details can be found on their individual webpages.

Most graduate students that join our team are enrolled in epidemiology, integrative pathobiology, ecology, or preventative veterinary medicine degree programs at UC Davis, while undergraduates are majoring in various fields within the biological sciences.
 

How to prepare for joining a One Health research team?

As you might guess from the breadth of research described on our site, we need the talents of people from a variety of fields and backgrounds to tackle complex One Health issues, particularly those involving disease emergence and pandemic preparedness. Students and early career professionals often have backgrounds in one health, veterinary science, public health, global disease biology, epidemiology, ecology, medical science, infectious disease biology, microbiology, immunology, virology, entomology, social and behavioral science, bioinformatics, or data science, but so many other fields also provide a solid foundation for the type of work that we do. As transdisciplinary collaborations often provide the most robust approach, we increasingly are engaging engineers, computer scientists, anthropologists, experts in education theory, conservationists, natural resource managers, policy experts, and a wealth of other fields where individuals are seeking to apply their talents to improving and protecting the health of humans, animals, and the planet.

Two people in PPE

 

EpiCenter Meeting

 

Students walking through a creek

 

Researchers at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area