My name is Julio Siliezar, I am originally from El Salvador and immigrated to the US when I was 15 years old. I originally moved to Los Angeles but a year after moving to the US I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my mom and brother. I lived in the bay area for 16 years until I moved to Sacramento. I am currently a second year medical student at UC Davis School of Medicine and will be graduating from medical school in 2025.

He, my name is Angelique Ingabire, I am from Rwanda. My background is in agriculture-animal science and I hold a master's in One Health with a focus on Integrated Management of Health Risks in the Global South. Currently, I work in the public health research space.

Mexican wildlife parasitologist and science communicator

Held in California, Rx One Health is an amazing opportunity to learn about the One Health initiative, from the foundations, methods, and considerations to the formulation of integrative solutions, challenges and opportunities. Check out my photo journal documenting my experience participating in Rx One Health 2022:

Karen's Photo Journal

I've wanted for a while to attend the Rx One Health program, but COVID-19 won't let it until June, 2022. I believed that taking this course would help me advance professionally as a biomedical researcher. When I read the course materials and syllabus on the Rx One Health Institute website, I thought that the course covered most of the things I wanted to learn. Honestly, one of the wonderful news at the start of 2022 was my scholarship and successful selection for this course.

En español [English translation below]

As a master’s student in the International Agriculture Development program at UC Davis, I’m no stranger to interdisciplinary conversations about pressing global issues. However, these conversations tend to be constrained to policy, agricultural, and environmental expertise and with a definite bias toward social science methods and solutions. Incorporating scientific expertise and perspectives into my work tends to be like a game of academic telephone: trying to translate concepts and potential solutions through a line of simplifications and explanations.

I am Hannah, a PhD student from University College Dublin, Ireland. My PhD focuses on developing culture models to study Hepatitis E, an emerging zoonotic infections disease. I have a background in virology, focussing mainly on livestock and zoonotic viruses.

The new Rx One Health alumni blog series will bring you first-hand student accounts sharing stories from our 2022 international cohort.

Andrea is a Peruvian veterinarian currently living in France. She holds a Master of Public Health and has just started her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Heidelberg, where she will explore the relationship between climate change and animal diseases. She also works for the World Organisation for Animal Health part-time.