Beat The Heat: The One Health Club’s Initiative to Help Tucson’s Unhoused Communities
Empowering Students Through the One Health Grand Challenge. The Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) One Health Grand Challenge encourages students to develop a meaningful and sustainable One Health project at their university, in their community, or elsewhere, with a grand prize of $1,700 to implement it in the community. The University of Arizona Put in a Bid In 2023, veterinary students Natasha Radic (CO’ 26) and Janice Rowitt (CO’ 25) of the One Health Club (OHC) at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine (UACVM) teamed up with SAVMA President Diana Rosas and Vice President Josh Henkel (both CO’ 25) to submit a proposal to the One Health Grand Challenge- a Beat The Heat Campaign. The goal of this campaign? To address the critical One Health issue of heat and vulnerable populations. This campaign aimed to support unhoused individuals and those facing housing insecurity, along with their pets, in Tucson, a city growing hotter each year, by providing heat preparedness kits and valuable educational resources on heat stroke in pets. Why This Matters Extreme weather events affect the entire local population, but vulnerable groups, such
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