{"id":267,"date":"2024-02-16T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/?p=267"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:51:39","slug":"catherine_machalaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/catherine_machalaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1\"><strong>Catherine Machalaba <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" style=\"line-height:1.1\">Principal Scientist for Health and Policy, EcoHealth Alliance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Catherine is Principal Scientist for Health and Policy at EcoHealth Alliance, where she works closely with intergovernmental and governmental partners on research, policy, and operations focused on the intersection between human, animal and environmental health (\u201cOne Health\u201d).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key focus of her work is researching and addressing the shared drivers of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and disease to find multi-sectoral and cost-effective solutions. Catherine is a member of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel advising the FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH, and also served as program officer for the IUCN SSC Wildlife Health Specialist Group for 10 years. She has a PhD in Environmental and Planetary Health Sciences.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/catherine_machalaba_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269\" width=\"280\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/catherine_machalaba_1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/catherine_machalaba_1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/catherine_machalaba_1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/task-force-members\/\">Back to Task Force Members<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Machalaba Principal Scientist for Health and Policy, EcoHealth Alliance Catherine is Principal Scientist for Health and Policy at EcoHealth Alliance, where she works closely with intergovernmental and governmental partners on research, policy, and operations focused on the intersection between human, animal and environmental health (\u201cOne Health\u201d).&nbsp; A key focus of her work is researching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/catherine_machalaba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Task Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbf-task-force-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}