You are warmly invited to attend the first webinar in the IPI-SAHC Planetary One Health Webinar Series. The aim of the webinar is to provide a shared platform for researchers and practitioners who are adopting inclusive perspectives on health.
The series is kicking off with research insights from Dr Katie Woolaston with a presentation titled: Implementing the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health.
Dr Katie Woolaston believes that biodiversity conservation should be mainstreamed into all areas of governance from local, to international, as a means of mitigating the triple planetary crisis. Katie holds a Masters in Law (specialising in Human Rights & Social Justice) from the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Law (on the intersections of wildlife welfare, conservation and social justice) from Griffith University.
Katie’s research is focused on international and domestic wildlife law and the regulation of the human-wildlife relationship through the One Health approach. She is particularly interested in using the social sciences to resolve long-held and deeply-rooted attitudes and values that are contrary to conservation and embedding such processes in law and policy. She was an expert on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) panel concerning Biodiversity and Pandemics, and is the Chair of the Technical Advisory Group of the United Nations Environment Program’s 'Nature4Health' Initiative. Her first book, titled ‘Ecological Vulnerability: The Law and Governance of Human-Wildlife Relationships’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, and her second, ‘The Cambridge Handbook on One Health and the Law’ will be published in 2025.he Law’ will be published in 2025.
