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A story for veterinarians! Overcoming adversity and embracing change!

Today, we will be visiting with a veterinarian turned one health expert, Dr. Deborah Thomson, all the way from Washington, DC, who shares with us how a chance teaching job at a middle school catapulted her as a one health key opinion later on Capitol Hill. Through her experience, she is now enabling and impacting hundreds of others by creating One Health curriculum plans and outlining her ‘lessons learned’ in her book The Art of Science Communication; sharing knowledge with students, the public and policy makers. Her story just goes to show that a veterinarian's work is not done just inside the clinic but also has the ability to mold the future of the next generation decision makers and the animal health industry.

A story for startups! A veterinarian transforming human health treatments for animals!
Today we will be conducting our first in person interview all the way in Osterode, Germany. We took all the precautionary measures to ensure safety and are excited to share our visit with a father and son team, who are giving pet owners hope and options after their pet receives a cancer diagnosis. After years of seeing his patients have limited choices in cancer treatments, this veterinarian set out to create a 100% biological alternative that uses the pet’s own immune system to fight off the cancer cells. Their story just goes to show that innovation in patient care and cancer treatment, can lead to new scientific developments in the animal health industry. 

A story for startups! Fundraising in the middle of a pandemic! 

Sean Smith is an industrial and product design student from Dublin, Ireland, who, together with three of his university colleagues, came up with an idea for a college class that quickly graduated into a real business. These four tech gurus stumbled into an animal health startup that gained the attention and funding of the Yield Lab and Enterprise Ireland. His story just goes to show that innovation within academia can be spun out into an entrepreneurial endeavor in animal health industry.

A story for startups! Facing and overcoming adversity!

Koji Hori was a human health systems engineer who accidentally turned into an animal health entrepreneur. Koji developed a smart litter box to track his cat's health and soon found a large need to discover the hidden world of cat habits. Cats are notorious for hiding symptoms such as pain and urinary conditions, so Koji has made it his mission to use AI, machine learning, and a smart camera to monitor and report a cat's health to their pet parents. Koji has become so successful that his product, Toletta, is the number one selling smart litter box on Amazon Japan.

Welcome to the Global animal health network, where we celebrate all facets of the animal health industry worldwide. We are growing and building our community to be the one stop shop for all segments of our tight knit industry. Our network spans the divide from production animals to companion animals, and all the other quickly growing adjacent categories.
 Our goal is to act as the metaphorical doorstep for those who want information, access, and connections across the industry regardless of location, title, degrees, or revenues. By acting as the industry’s search engine, we have made it our mission to tell the stories and the news of the movers and shakers in the animal health sector.