The theme for the 2019 Triangle Global Health Annual Conference was One Health: Creating our Shared Future – Humans, Animals, and the Environment. Michelle Pender presented on Biodiversity, Land Use Change, and Human Health: Evidence from Northeastern Madagascar
Michelle Pender presents research findings from Madagascar
The close relationship between humans, animals and the environment, rapid changes to the environment through land use and climate change make it vitally important to understand how ecosystem changes influence biodiversity and human health, and to identify actions that can improve conservation, while also improving human health. We are investigating how human activities alter ecological communities and influence infectious disease risk near Marojejy National Park in northeastern Madagascar.
Three former Nicholas School of the Environment students have turned the findings of their 2016 Master’s Project, on regional differences in what motivates homeowners to implement energy-efficiency upgrades, into their first journal publication. Master of Environmental Management graduates Jennifer Cole, Jessica McDonald and Xinyan Wen used their group project to write a peer-reviewed paper, “Marketing energy efficiency: perceived benefits and barriers to home energy efficiency,” that was published in the journal Energy Efficiency. Their project advisor was Randy Kramer. 
Randy Kramer highlights the importance of a two-prong approach of prevention and treatment in fighting malaria and the need for global coordination between organizations to eradicate the disease.
