Scientists Converge For International EcoHealth Conference

Top Scientists, Educators and Policy Makers Participate in Inaugural Event

NEW YORK - October 5, 2006 - EcoHealth ONE, the inaugural biennial conference of the International EcoHealth Association (www.ecohealth.net/Conference/site/index.html), will take place October 6 - 10, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Experts from fields as diverse as conservation biology, veterinary medicine and public health, will convene at the University's Pyle Center to discuss current research and to better understand the links between ecology and health. Bringing together researchers, educators and policy makers from around the world, EcoHealth ONE will center on the theme "Promoting Global Health - Sustaining Natural Resources." The message of the conference is that our own health is tied to the health of our ecosystems.

Scheduled keynote speakers include:

• Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor of Microbiology, University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins University; Former Director, NSF "Forging New Science at the Junction of Ecology & Health"
• Howard Frumkin, Professor and Director, CDC National Center for Environmental Health "Public Health and the Built Environment"
• Andy Dobson, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University "Advancing Theory of Infectious Disease Epidemiology"
• Les Real, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Biology, Emory University "Ebola to Rabies: Ecological Modeling for Disease Prediction"
• Rainer Sauerborn, Chair, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany "Climate change and infectious diseases: impacts and adaptation"
• Shu-Yi Zhang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences "Zoonotic Disease Emergence: Discovery of the Cause of SARS in China"

For a full list of speakers and a conference schedule, please visit the EcoHealth website (www.ecohealth.net).

The integrity of human health, wildlife health, and ecosystems are closely connected, and EcoHealth ONE will provide a unique forum to advance emerging, highly interdisciplinary scientific work in this arena; promote the interaction of a diverse audience concerned with sustainable health and environment; and consider how to address challenges in an effective and unified way.

About EcoHealth
EcoHealth is an international, peer-reviewed journal launched in 2004 and published quarterly by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC on behalf of the EcoHealth Journal Consortium . The journal provides a timely forum for research, policy and practice that integrates the ecological and health sciences. EcoHealth is the merger of the complementary journals Ecosystem Health and Global Change and Human Health, and a planned journal of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine. To learn more about EcoHealth please visit www.ecohealth.net.