The University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and The Bill Gatton Foundation Grand Challenge Team recently established a One Health Initiative. The initiative will bring together research, extension and instruction in One Health and serves as a foundation for launching the future UK One Health Center.

UK is in a unique situation as a land-grant institution and one of eight academic institutions in the U.S. with a full complement of engineering, liberal arts, professional, medical and agricultural colleges and disciplines on one contiguous campus. Having everything on one campus promotes collaborative activities and research projects across the 16 degree-granting colleges and over 200 academic programs at the university.

The Martin-Gatton CAFE is uniquely situated with many years of collaboration not only across the university but also with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Kentucky Department of Public Health, Kentucky State University, Murray State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and Lincoln Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Our college has one of the strongest extension programs in the nation. As one of our three mission areas, extension ensures the dissemination of knowledge from the university to the people of Kentucky. Our presence in all 120 counties allows our extension agents and staff to serve as the primary extension educational arm of UK, disseminating information about One Health topics, research and emerging diseases throughout the commonwealth.

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