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PA One Health Consortium

Consortium Connections: One Health in the spotlight

Representatives from across the Commonwealth recently took part in the first annual meeting of the Pennsylvania One Health Consortium, a coalition of experts focused on improving health and well-being for all Pennsylvanians.

Danielle Tufts

Ticky business: How Pitt researchers track the 8-legged bloodsuckers

When Pitt Public Health professor Danielle Tufts and her team of students go out, they bring just a few things: A white jumpsuit, a pair of tweezers, some tiny vials to store specimens and a meter-long piece of white corduroy.

Dr. Priscilla Castanha

Dengue severity linked to genetic ancestry’s influence on immune response

Priscila Castanha, PhD, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, and colleagues have linked the extreme variability in severity of the mosquito-borne viral disease dengue to the influence of genetic ancestry on inflammatory responses in the skin.