Category: Work & Life

Remote work and circular health

by Alejandro Sanchez
June 28, 2022

Remote working During the pandemic, tens of millions of workers, mostly office workers, were suddenly forced to work from home (WFH). In the beginning, there were many difficulties to address, especially when children were attending school ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Management, Recreation, Work & Life
Tags: Circular Health, Covid-19, IFAS One Health, One Health, Sustainable Development Goals, Transdisciplinarity, WFH, Working From Home

What is behind a number?

by Alejandro Sanchez
June 21, 2022

I imagine that, lately, one of the most frequent thoughts in people’s minds, when they walk through a supermarket, is the steep increase in prices. But, before prices started soaring because of inflation, the war in Ukraine, and some corporate ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Food, Inflation, Money

Music as a therapy to improve the life quality of patients living with dementia

by Alejandro Sanchez
June 17, 2022

Introduction Music has a profound impact on the lives of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. I know this firsthand after caring for my late father who passed from complications with fronto-temporal dementia. ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Health & Nutrition, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS, Work & Life
Tags: Alzheimer, Dementia, Music, Music Therapy, One Health Uf

Everything you need to know about One Health

by Alejandro Sanchez
June 15, 2022

Last March, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to constitute ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, Health & Nutrition, Invasive Species, Livestock, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS
Tags: Circular Health, Covid-19, FAO, Interdisciplinarity, One Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, UNEP, WHO, WOAH

It’s World Bicycle Day, and you should go for a ride…

by Alejandro Sanchez
June 3, 2022

Today, June 3rd is the United Nations World Bicycle Day. Being an extremely passionate cyclist, I decided to write a blog post to share, not only the benefits that riding a bike has brought to my life, but the positive impact it can have on ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Health & Nutrition, Recreation, Work & Life
Tags: Circular Health, Climate Change, Cycling, IFAS One Health, One Health, World Bicycle Day

Medical Humanities: A Bridge between “The Two Cultures”

by Alejandro Sanchez
May 31, 2022

The separation between “sciences” and “humanities” in the intellectual life of all of Western society remains as entrenched today as it was in the mid-20th century (1). Although medical students benefit from the arts and the humanities, ... READ MORE

Category: Curriculum, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Arts, Healthcare, Humanities, IFAS One Health, One Health

Increased political support for One Health

by Alejandro Sanchez
May 19, 2022

The last two years have seen political transformations in One Health. These political commitments at different levels, along with the evidence of the interconnections between humans, plants, animals, and the environment that the pandemic has ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Livestock, Pests & Disease
Tags: Europe, IFAS One Health, Infectious Diseases, One Health

Sustainability and Buildings

by One Health Center of Excellence
April 5, 2022

Recently I represented the One Health Center in an exploratory meeting to build multidisciplinary collaborations across different sustainability efforts at the University of Florida (UF). It was extremely eye-opening talking with other ... READ MORE

Category: Work & Life
Tags: One Health, One Health At UF, Sustainability, Sustainability At Uf

The Importance of Systems Thinking: From Climate Change to Personal Life

by One Health Center of Excellence
March 15, 2022

When thinking about climate change, planting trees and pursuing reforestation to sequester carbon is usually seen as a great idea. However, a recent article in the New York Times “Tree Planting Is Booming. Here’s How That Could Help, or ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, Work & Life
Tags: Climate Change, One Health, Systems Thinking

Collaborative Network for Common Heritage

by One Health Center of Excellence
March 1, 2022

Have you ever wondered who owns the objects found in a museum and whether the ownership is in the “right” hands? Museums and governments have been discussing this for some decades now. One of the most prominent examples are the Parthenon ... READ MORE

Category: Work & Life
Tags: Elgin Marbles, Heritage, History, One Health, Parthenon Marbles

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