Now Innovating: One Health strategies for Arctic wildlife monitoring

In this episode of Now Innovating, a research-to-impact series at the University of Calgary, we speak with Dr. Eleanor Dickinson, PhD, a 2024-2025 Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. 

Dickinson discusses One Health and how her work in the Kutz Research Group utilizes different strategies to develop new approaches for Arctic wildlife health monitoring and management for caribou and muskoxen. She speaks to the importance of building partnerships and relationships for research and describes how she is working with academic and non-academic partners, local communities, and patrons of Arctic conservation to communicate the findings into practice. She also teaches us the difference between caribou and reindeer, and the importance of recognizing the innovation in your work. 

Now Innovating shares the stories of UCalgary researchers who have moved their discoveries forward and their innovation journeys to implementation and creating impact. Episodes are released monthly and are captioned and transcribed on YouTube. Episodes are also available as a podcast on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Spotify and more. Explore the series.