Quote

What I love about One Health is that it is rooted in relationships - reflecting and exploring our connections with each other, with animals, with the environment, and with ourselves.

Institution

Simon Fraser University

Based in

Canada , Burnaby

Languages

English

Short Bio

Dr. Kaylee Byers is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, a Senior Scientist with the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, and the Deputy Director of the British Columbia node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. Dr. Byers is a settler scholar of European ancestry, with roots in both Canada’s maritime and prairie provinces. Dr. Byers is interested in collaborative, community-based research. She leads a broad research program in One Health, Human dimensions and Implementation Science (the OH-HI Science CoLab) that centers around enhancing local, national, and global capacity to better detect, manage, and mitigate health threats at the nexus of human, animal, and environmental health. Outside of research, she is also an active science communicator. She co-founded, organizes and hosts Nerd Nite Vancouver, a science seminar series which aims to share science in a casual setting. She is also the host of Genome British Columbia’s award-winning podcast “Nice Genes” which explores the role of genomics in society.

Other Expertise

One Health Zoonoses Interdisciplinarity Wildlife Disease Urban Wildlife Disease Ecology Multidisciplinary Partnership Stewardship Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance