The Next Generation

Collaboration at Every Level

Every Zoobiquity Conference has been built on a deliberate principle: that discovery accelerates when expertise meets across both profession and career stage. From senior clinicians and established investigators to residents, fellows, and first-year students, participants of medicine and veterinary science are brought to the same cases, the same podium, and the same conversation.

Physicians · MD Veterinarians · DVM Senior clinicians & investigators Early-career faculty Residents, fellows & trainees Medical & veterinary students
The Conferences are the largest and most in-depth sustained effort yet to bring medical and veterinary leaders, clinicians, investigators, students and trainees into shared scientific work — training a generation to reason across the boundaries of species.

Clinicians & Investigators

Physicians, veterinarians, and researchers of every seniority meet around the same cases, dissolving the hierarchy that ordinarily keeps human and animal medicine apart.

Students & Trainees

Medical and veterinary students, residents, and fellows take part as contributors, not spectators — presenting cases, joining clinical rounds, and working directly beside senior faculty from both professions.

Leaders & Funders

Deans, department chairs, and other leaders of medical and veterinary schools convene alongside the funders who sustain the work — aligning institutional support behind cross-species medicine and signaling that the collaboration matters at the highest levels of both professions.

Detailed figures on the students and young professionals convened across the series are being compiled from conference records and will be added here.
Measuring the Field

Impact

Since the founding conference in 2011, "One Health" and comparative-medicine research — the literature examining shared disease processes across humans and other species — has grown sharply in volume. The analysis below draws on annual "One Health" publication counts indexed in Scopus, 2000–2024, to examine that growth — presenting both what the data show and what they do not.

A Catalyst for a Field

From a shared table to a global movement

The questions first pressed at these conferences — that disease is shared across the tree of life, and that physicians and veterinarians should study it together — now animate whole fields of research and practice.

One Health Evolutionary Medicine Comparative Oncology Planetary & Environmental Health Wildlife & Zoo Medicine Cross-species Cardiology Zoobiquity Conferences
Illustrative. The Zoobiquity Conferences are one of several forces — alongside pandemic-driven urgency and institutional One Health programs — associated with the rise of comparative, cross-species medicine. The bibliometric analysis below examines that association directly.
20,877
"One Health" publications,
2011–2024
6.5×
increase over 2000–2010
volume (3,195 publications)
Line chart of annual 'One Health' publications, 2000–2024, showing acceleration after 2011 relative to the pre-2011 linear trend, with Zoobiquity Conference years marked
Annual "One Health" publications, 2000–2024, against a linear extrapolation of the pre-2011 trend. Gold markers indicate Zoobiquity Conference years (2011–2019).
Bar chart comparing total 'One Health' publication volume: 3,195 in 2000–2010 versus 20,877 in 2011–2024, a 6.5-fold increase
Total "One Health" publication volume, 2000–2010 versus 2011–2024 — a 6.5-fold increase.
What the Data Show
  • 6.5× more "One Health" publications appeared in 2011–2024 (20,877) than in 2000–2010 (3,195)
  • The sustained upturn in publication volume begins in 2011–2012 — coincident with the founding of the conferences
  • Growth has continued across the full period rather than in a single isolated year
  • Independent literature (Miao et al., 2022; Maulana et al., 2023) documents sustained growth in "One Health" publishing since the early 2000s, corroborating the trend from an outside dataset
Important Caveats
  • The field was already growing quickly before 2011 — pre-2011 annual growth averaged roughly 30% — so some acceleration was likely already underway
  • The sharpest single-year jump in publications falls in 2020, coinciding with COVID-19, rather than with the conferences' founding
  • Several concurrent forces plausibly contributed to the surge, including the H1N1 pandemic (2009), institutional One Health initiatives, and the growing use of antimicrobial-resistance framing in the literature
  • An analysis of this kind can demonstrate association, not sole causation
  • The Zoobiquity Conferences are largely U.S.-based; "One Health" research and publication activity are globally distributed
The bibliometric record shows a marked, sustained shift in "One Health" and comparative-medicine publication activity beginning in 2011–2012 — coincident with, though not proven to be caused solely by, the founding of the Zoobiquity Conferences. The conference series appears to have been one part — alongside pandemic-driven urgency, institutional One Health programs, and a broader shift in how zoonotic and comparative disease research is framed — of a field-wide transition from steady early growth to sustained, high-volume expansion.
Analysis: annual "One Health" publication counts indexed in Scopus, 2000–2024. Corroborating field-wide trend data: Miao et al. (2022), Frontiers in Public Health, DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2022.889854; Maulana et al. (2023), International Journal of One Health; Fang et al. (2024), Science in One Health.