Past Bossart Memorial Scholarship Winners - One Health Commission

Past Bossart Memorial Scholarship Winners

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Dr. Gregory D. Bossart Memorial
 
One Health Scholarship
 
 
Past Bossart Fellows
 
 
Funded by Georgia Aquarium,
Administered by the One Health Commission
 
 
 
 
 

Third Bossart Fellow - 2023

 

October 30, 2023 Award Announcement

 
Mehak Hafeez
for her One Health Project titled 
 

Sensor-Based Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Dal Lake, Kashmir: Advancing One Health through Participatory Surveillance

 

Mehak is a PhD Student at the SKUAST-Kashir University in Srinagar, Jamu and Kahmir, India

 

Second Bossart Fellow - 2022

 

December 15, 2022 Award Announcement

 
Miranda Dziobak  
for her One Health Project titled 
 

Sentinel Indicators of Marine Microplastic and Phthalate Exposure

 

Miranda is a PhD Student at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, USA

 

See Miranda's Video about her project.

Life in Plastic - Not so Fantastic!!  By Miranda Dziobak - How this Scholarship helped Miranda's progress

 

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First Bossart Fellow - 2021

 

 

November 30, 2021  Award Announcement

 

The inaugural $5,000 USD Bossart Scholarship Award went to:

 

 Taylor Weary  

for her One Health Project titled 

 

‘Healthy Children, Healthy Chimps: Reducing respiratory disease transmission from humans to chimpanzees in Uganda’

 

When she became the inaugural Bossart Scholar, Taylor was a DVM/PhD Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She finished her PhD in 2023 and will complete her DVM in 2025.

 

December 14, 2021  UW-M SVM News Posting about Taylor Winning the Scholarship

May 2022 Gathering Data, Building a Community by Taylor Weary - How this scholarship expanded her research project

April 17, 2024  Healthy Children - Healthy Chimps - Final Scholarship Report

June 11, 2024   Taylor's Narrative of One Health in Action

Combatting entrenched norms of “socialization for scarcity” and “parachute science” in global health and primatology: One Health is a moral framework, too

 

Scientific Publications from this research:

Weary TE, Tusiime P, Tuhaise S, Reyes JFM, Ross E, Gern JE, Goldberg TL, Respiratory Disease Patterns in Rural Western Uganda, 2019-2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 12, April 8, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1336009

Weary TE, Pappas T, Tusiime P, Tuhaise S, Ross E, Gern JE, Goldberg TL, High Frequencies of Nonviral Colds and Respiratory Bacteria Colonization Among Children in Rural Western Uganda, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 12, May 2, 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1379131

Weary, T.E., Pappas, T., Tusiime, P. et al. Common Cold Viruses Circulating in Children Threaten Wild Chimpanzees through Asymptomatic Adult Carriers. Sci Rep 14, 10431 (May 7, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61236-7

 

Popular Media Articles about this research:

Nuwer R, Nature, Chimpanzees are dying from our colds – these scientists are trying to save them, Vol 625, 442-446, January 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00108-6

Nuwer R, The Guardian, Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?, January 16, 2024, Republished May 2, 2024, https://tinyurl.com/awdztazw

 

 

 

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