Our team is focused on the animal health impacts of a changing environment. Climate change has been identified as a leading health threat of the 21st century, and the veterinary community needs to be equipped to address this emerging issue. We are a group of students, staff, and faculty at Colorado State University who are working with a diverse, global network of animal health professionals. Our program has three pillars: research, education, and action. Through our work we seek to equip people with the tools they need to protect the health of animals and the environment that sustains them.
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Dr. Colleen Duncan works with co-authors to establish a relationship between air quality and athletic performance in horses on a scale that has not been done before, finding race horses tend to run slower on days when the air quality is worse.
In an effort to educate the veterinarians of the future to be stewards of planetary health, Colleen Duncan urges veterinary medicine professionals to be more active contributors to climate change solutions.
From rising temperatures to air pollution to habitat loss, Colleen Duncan discusses why climate change is an animal health issue and why veterinarians are uniquely poised to help.