Calvin Schwabe Lectureship
This lectureship commemorates the pioneering One Health work of Calvin Schwabe, who helped strengthen the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's commitment to One Health by ensuring that future veterinarians integrate human, animal and ecosystem protection into their professional work.
"The critical needs of man include the combating of diseases, ensuring enough food, adequate environmental quality, and a society in which humane values prevail," — Dr. Calvin Schwabe
2023 Calvin Schwabe Lectureship Speaker
Jakob Zinsstag, PhD, DVM
Professor, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Past Speakers
2022: Anthony Iton, MD, JD, PhD
Lecturer of Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities,The California Endowment
2021: Michael Lairmore, DVM, PhD
Immediate Past Dean & Distinguished Professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
2020: Alice Waters
Founder, The Edible Schoolyard Project
Owner, Chez Panisse
Theme: Future of Food
2019: Christine Kreuder Johnson, VMD, MPVM, PhD
Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Theme: Interfaces: One Health at Borders and Margins
2018: Laura Kahn, MPH, MD, PhD
Physician and Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Health and International Affairs, Princeton University
Theme: One Health Impacts & Solutions of Unsustainable Population Growth
Talk Title: A One Health Perspective on Food Security in the 21st Century
2017: Fernando Milano
Professor and Head of Natural Resources and Sustainability Division, College of Veterinary Medicinem, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Theme: Water is Life
Talk Title: Droughts & Floods—Stories from Argentina on One Health Synergies for Health & Land Use Planning
Who is Calvin Schwabe?
Known as the "father of modern epidemiology," the late Calvin Schwabe had a productive and inspiring career that spanned 52 years. Twenty-five of those years were spent at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine as a professor of epidemiology, where he made significant and broad contributions to the study of zoonotic diseases, production and food animal medicine, and public health.
The term "one medicine" (forerunner of the more current term, One Health) was coined by Dr. Schwabe in his 1984 book, Veterinary Medicine and Human Health, to bring a renewed interest to the synergy that can emerge when health practitioners and scientists collaborate.
The Calvin Schwabe One Health Project honors Dr. Schwabe's prescience in reviving the "one medicine" concept, and continues to advance his vision.