Sally Slavinski: One Health in Public Health: Examples from the New York City Health Department

One Health in Public Health: Examples from the New York City Health Department

The NYC Health Department sits at the intersection of environmental, human and animal health, and strives to embody One Health through strong partnerships between animal health professionals and public health. Learn how a One Health approach is used in New York City to inform and protect human and animal health through surveillance, epidemiologic investigations, and response and control measures, particularly for zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. Examples will include NYC’s experience with West Nile virus, raccoon rabies, Lyme disease, leptospirosis and extreme heat events.

Sally received her DVM in 1995 from Michigan State University. She worked in Uganda with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Department of Animal Health and Heifer Project International, followed stateside by three years in small animal medicine. She received her MPH from the University of California at Berkeley after which she served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before starting with the New York City Department of Health in 2004.

She serves as the Director of the Zoonotic and Vector-borne Disease Unit, developing strong ties with colleagues in the animal health community to conduct joint investigations of zoonotic diseases among animals and people.  She is passionate about the health of our planet and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, dog and cat. Each summer they escape NYC and explore a new National Park.

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