Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses

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About Us

The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses (COHTPEZ) is a connected community of highly skilled researchers, professionals, and leaders in various disciplines, formed in 2024. Together they work, collaborate, and innovate to build sustainable and resilient integrated health systems, and to accelerate the implementation of One Health to better prevent and respond to current and future threats caused by emerging zoonotic pathogens, including viruses, fungi, parasites, and bacteria, among others. 

Through this program, highly competent personnel capable of excellence in health research on emerging zoonoses will be trained with a One Health approach. Training focuses on specific skill gaps and anchors all trainees in a shared and equitable vision for the health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and ecosystems, thus facilitating the potential to create a cohesive and collaborative workforce that is ready to act to protect humans, animals and ecosystems in Canada and globally from the next zoonotic threats.

Some of the COHTPEZ grant applicants and collaborators

In the lab and field

In the media

  • Un premier programme canadien de formation «Une seule santé» sur les zoonoses émergentes

    Un nouveau programme de formation codirigé par des chercheurs et chercheuses de l’Université de Montréal, des universités de Guelph, de la Saskatchewan et de Toronto ainsi que des universités York et Dalhousie utilisera l’approche Une seule santé pour renforcer la capacité du Canada à faire face à la prochaine pandémie.   Les Instituts de recherche en…

  • USask co-leads of first-ever nationwide One Health training program

    A new national training program co-led by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) to prepare and train researchers to identify and prevent the threat of disease against animal and human populations has received federal support.   The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses (COHTPEZ), a first-of-its-kind program in Canada, received $2.7 million from the Canadian…

  • First National One Health Training Program to Prepare Leaders for Next Pandemic

    A new six-year training program co-led by researchers at the University of Guelph will use a One Health approach to build national capacity for the next pandemic – the first training of its kind in Canada. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded U of G and other university, government and non-governmental organization partners $2.7 million to…