About this episode

Gail Buhl and Julia Ponder discuss the Wild Alert initiative with its team members, exploring their roles and current projects.

“Every single wildlife rehabilitator is important, big or small…” - Rachel Avilla In this conversation, Gail and her first co-host, Julia Ponder, a clinical wildlife veterinarian with a background in public health, speak with members of the Wild Alert team: Rachel Avilla, President, Co-Founder, and Executive Director of The Wild Neighbors Database Project; Terra Kelly, an epidemiologist and wildlife health specialist; and Pranav Pandit, a One Health epidemiologist. They discuss what Wild Alert is, what it does, and the projects they are currently working on. In the next episode, they take a deeper dive into how the system is used. Special thanks to our guests, Partners For Wildlife, and The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. Resources mentioned: https://wildalert.org/ www.wildneighborsdp.org

People in this episode

Hosts: Gail Buhl, Julia Ponder

Guests: Rachel Avilla, Terra Kelly, Pranav Pandit

Topics covered

• wildlife rehabilitation
• epidemiology
• public health
• Wild Alert
• One Health
• wildlife health

Keywords

• wildlife rehabilitation
• Wild Alert
• epidemiologist
• One Health
• public health
• wildlife health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Wild Neighbors Database Project, Partners For Wildlife, The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Wild Alert

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