JULY 22 - 25, 2021

One Health
HACKATHON

Welcome to the
One Health
Hackathon!

onehealthhackathon.org
We’re so excited to welcome you to the One
Health Hackathon!

From July 22nd to 24th, nearly 300 students from

across 30 countries will come together to learn
about global health and stop tomorrow's
pandemics.

In this brief guidebook, we' ll go over how the

hackathon will work and introduce you to the
amazing mentors you’ll be working with!

Thanks to our partners:

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1.Project Guidelines

You will create an action

plan to address your disease.
This can include:
Policy platforms
Tech prototypes
Business pitches
Anything else you wan t!

The only requirement is that you use the

principles of One Health : addressing animal,
human, and environmental health together .

If you are unfamiliar with One Health, we

highly recommend checking out this page on
our website :

What is One Health?

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Final Projects:
Each team will have 7 minutes to
present their action plan in the form of a
slideshow .
If your project has an additional
component like a website/app prototype,
you are welcome to present it as well.
Projects will be submitted as videos for
judging.

Judging Criterea:

Originality Presentation

Feasibility Use of One Health

principles

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2.Schedule (EST)
Please note that the schedule below is
in Eastern Standard Time.
If you would like to see the converted times in PST,
GMT, or East Africa Time, please visit our website.

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

Opening Ceremony 1 Speaker 3 Initial Proposals Due Projects Due

8:00 am - 8:30 am 9:00 am - 10:00 am 7:00 am 8:00am

Workshop 1 Catherine Machalaba

8:30 am - 9:30 am Speaker 6 Project Expo
Mobile App Design Speaker 4 9:00 am - 10:00 am 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Jaber Belkhiria Participant
Workshop 2
10:00 am - 11:00 am Jonna Mazet Presentations
Design Thinking Office Hours
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Closing Ceremony
Speaker 1 Speaker 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Mentor Feedback 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Steve Osofsky Richard Cash Awards +
Speaker 7 Presentations from
Speaker 2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Office Hours 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm track winners
Laura Kahn 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Jürgen Richt
Mentor feedback
Workshop 3
Office Hours
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Science Policy
Mentor Feedback
Opening Ceremony 2
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Workshop 6
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop 4
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Project Pitching
Prototyping

Workshop 5
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Science Policy

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3.Preparation
We encourage you to do some research on your
assigned disease befor e the hacka thon: look at the
existing measures that have worked, and think about
how you might incorpor ate the m into you r pr oj e ct.

Each track has several One Health factors that

you could address in your projects. Here are some
suggested topics:

Zika Virus - Climate Change

Nipah Virus - Deforestation
Influenza - Livestock
Rabies - Wildlife Regulation
Cholera - Sanitation

There are background guides available for the

above suggestions on our website, if you need a
starting point for your research.

Background Guides

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4.Speakers
More complete biographies for all speakers can be
found on our website.

JONNA MAZET
Founding Executive Director,
UC Davis One Health Institute
Chancellor’s Leadership
Professor of Epidemiology and
Disease Ecology
Global Director of PREDICT,
developed with the USAID's
Emerging Pandemic Threats
Program.

RICHARD CASH
Lecturer at the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health
Conducted the first clinical trials
of oral rehydration therapy in
cholera patients at the Cholera
Research Laboratory in Dhaka,
Bangladesh

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STEVE OSOFSKY
Professor of Wildlife Health &
Health Policy at Cornell
University’s College of
Veterinary Medicine
Biodiversity Program Advisor
at the U. S. Agency for
International Development
(USAID)

LAURA KAHN
Research Scholar at Princeton
University
In 2006, she published
Confronting Zoonoses, Linking
Human and Veterinary Medicine
in the CDC journal Emerging
Infectious Diseases that helped
launch the One Health Initiative,
which is a global effort to
promote the One Health concept.

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CATHERINE MACHALABA
Senior Policy Advisor at
EcoHealth Alliance
Previously served as Chair of
the American Public Health
Association’s Veterinary Public
Health group

JÜRGEN A. RICHT
Director of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Center on
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (CEZID)
Director of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Center
of Excellence for Emerging and
Zoonotic Animal Diseases
(CEEZAD)

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5.Format
Hopin
There are 3 Sections:
Stage - For speaker presentations
and workshops (in webinar form)
Sessions - For meeting with teams
and mentors
Expo - To view final presentations

Check the master schedule on Hopin so

you don't miss any speakers or
workshops!

Organizers will always be available if

you need help.

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Get Excited
for the One
Health
Hackathon!
If you have any questions for us,
feel free to contact us via email at
admin@onehealthhackathon.org

Also, don't forget to follow us on

Instagram!
@onehealthhackathon

Sincerely,

The One Health Hackathon Team

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