Recent Media Coverage
- How an H5N1 Outbreak in Elephant Seals Can Inform Pandemic Readiness – The Scientist, 6 May 2026
- Global Strategies to Protect Seals and Sea Lions from Avian Influenza – UC Davis News, 19 March 2026
- Bird Flu Outbreak Among CA Marine Mammals Remains Small But Concerning – UC Davis News, 13 March 2026
- H5N1 bird flu spreads to sea otters and sea lions along San Mateo coast, wildlife experts say – Los Angeles Times, 12 March 2026
- Bird Flu Strikes California Elephant Seals for the First Time – The New York Times, 25 February 2026
- Deadly bird flu found in California elephant seals for the first time – Los Angeles Times, 25 February 2026
- First Cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Northern Elephant Seals Confirmed in California – UC Davis News, 25 February 2026
Additional Media Coverage
2025
❯ A Smarter Response to Disease: How UC Davis Engineers are Building Tools to Slow the Next Outbreak – Engineering Progress Magazine, UC Davis, December 2026
❯ Among the Academies: Solving Outbreak Mysteries – UC Davis News, 28 January 20252024
❯ Pandemic preparedness: how the University of California is a critical state partner in health security – University of California Health News, 30 September 2024
❯ NSF Invests $72 Million In Four University Pandemic Research Centers – Forbes, 27 August 2024
❯ New NSF Center for pandemic insights to blend 4 UC Davis powerhouses – Daily Democrat, 27 August 2024
❯ New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, 23 August, 2024
❯ New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights – UC Davis News, 22 August 2024
❯ How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu? – Scientific American, 19 April 2024
❯ Some experts worry California wildlife could be vulnerable to an avian flu ‘apocalypse’ – Los Angeles Times, 25 February 2024
❯ Didn't get a Valentine's love song? These skywalker gibbons sing love duets – NPR, 23 February 20242023
- ❯ Can we make gorillas sick? Study reveals much about them — and us. – Washington Post, 25 March 2023
❯ Is climate change accelerating the risk of disease spreading from animals to humans? – PBS News Hour, 1 March 2023
❯ These U.S. scientists are working to save the planet – Share America, 27 February 2023
❯ ORG CHART: Johnson Named Director of Institute for Pandemic Intelligence – UC Davis News, 21 February 2023
❯ U.S. Science Envoys: Advancing U.S. Foreign Policy Through Science Diplomacy – U.S. Dept. of State, 10 February 2023
❯ Armed with air samplers, rope tricks, and—yes—ants, virus hunters spot threats in new ways – Science, 04 January 2023 2022
- ❯ UCD Professor to serve as U.S. Science Envoy – The Davis Enterprise, 11 December 2022
❯ Professor Christine Kreuder Johnson to Serve as U.S. Science Envoy – UC Davis News and Media Relations, 06 December 2022
❯ Announcement of New Cohort of U.S. Science Envoys – U.S. Department of State Media Note, Office of the Spokes Person, 06 December 2022
❯ Faculty experts tackle the world’s grand challenges – UC Davis, 8 November 2022
❯ Searching for the next deadly virus, before it ignites another pandemic – 60 Minutes, 30 October 2022
❯ CapRadio Insight: UC Davis Virus Spillover Tool – UC Davis News, 14 September 2022
❯ Novel Coronaviruses Are Riskiest for Spillover – UC Davis News, 25 August 2022
❯ Behind the Paper: Network-based approach helps identify early signals into ecological and evolutionary trajectories of viruses. – Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community, 22 August 2022
❯ UC Davis Sets a New Record, Surpasses $1 Billion in Research Funding – UC Davis News, 04 August 2022
❯ COVID-19 in Animals: What to Fear and What to Learn – IEEE Pulse, 21 June 2022
❯ UC Davis Interdisciplinary Research Teams Join Forces to Prepare for the Next Pandemic – UC Davis News, 15 June 2022
❯ Climate Change Will Accelerate Viral Spillovers, Study Finds – New York Times, 28 April 2022
❯ How climate change could drive animal movements — and threaten more viral spillovers – STAT News, 28 April 2022
❯ Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. – New York Times, 27 April 2022
❯ AAAS Honors Outstanding Scientific Contributors as 2021 AAAS Fellows – AAAS, 26 January 2022
❯ 9 Elected as AAAS Fellows – UC Davis News, 26 January 2022 2021
- ❯ Epidemiologist Elected to National Academy of Medicine – UC Davis News, 18 October 2021
❯ National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members – NAM, 18 October 2021
❯ How wildlife rescuers can protect public health – Salon, 12 September 2021
❯ This AI Helps Detect Wildlife Health Issues in Real Time – Wired, 16 August 2021
❯ Viral Spillover – National Geographic, 17 June 2021
❯ Why We Don’t Know the Animal Origins of the Coronavirus – Scientific American, 09 June 2021
❯ Covid Spilled From Animals to Humans. Now It’s Spilling Back – Wired, 22 March 2021
❯ Understanding the Evolution of SARS and COVID-19 Type Viruses – UC Davis News, 24 February 2021
❯ COVID-19 Is Circulating in Some Animals. What Does That Mean for Us? – ABC News, 21 February 2021
❯ Toxin found in crabs ups risk of fatal heart disease in hungry sea otters, study finds – Sacramento Bee, 02 February 2021
❯ Animals Can Get Covid-19, Too. Without Government Action, That Could Make the Coronavirus Harder to Control – Inside Climate News, 27 January 2021
❯ Ocean Toxin Threatens Sea Otters – Technology Networks, 27 January 2021
❯ Rise in algal blooms puts southern sea otters at increased risk of fatal heart disease – Oceanographic, 27 January 2021
❯ Ocean toxin a heartbreaking threat for sea otters – Science Daily, 26 January 2021 2020
- ❯ What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic? – The Nation, 14 December 2020
❯ Two Global Efforts Try to Trace the Origin of the Covid Virus – WIRED, 02 December 2020
❯ Call for coronavirus screening at mink farms – BBC, 24 November 2020
❯ The WHO is hunting for the coronavirus’s origins. Here are the new details – National Geographic, 06 November 2020
❯ Coronaviruses in rat and bat meat supply chains – Nature Food, 15 September 2020
❯ As COVID-19 continues, experts warn of next pandemic likely to come from animals – ABC News, 03 September 2020
❯ Amazon and Congo Basin Focus of New Emerging Infectious Disease Research Center – UC Davis News, 27 August 2020
❯ Coronavirus transmission risk increases along wildlife supply chains – Science Daily, 10 August 2020
❯ COVID-19 Global Response Index – Foreign Policy, 05 August 2020
❯ New Swine Flu Discovered in China: Why You Don’t Need to Worry Too Much Yet – Healthline, 01 July 2020
❯ How Protecting Habitats Could Help Prevent Future Pandemics – Audubon Magazine, Summer 2020
❯ Wildlife Tourism Can Pose Disease Threat to Wild Animals – Earth Island Journal, 18 May 2020
❯ Deforestation, exploitation of wildlife leads to pandemics like Covid-19: Epidemiologist – Hindustan Times, 13 May 2020
❯ Virus hunters' say key to preventing next pandemic is protecting wild animals and their habitats – ABC 7 News, 05 May 2020
❯ Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore. – New York Times, 30 April 2020
❯ COVID-19 Briefing Series: UC Research – UCOP, 29 April 2020
❯ Coronavirus: "Si queremos evitar que los virus se transformen en pandemias debemos cambiar radicalmente nuestros patrones de consumo" – BBC News Mundo, 16 April 2020
❯ To prevent the next pandemic, scientists search for animal zero – The Verge, 10 April 2020
❯ Wildlife exploitation = infectious disease risk – Cosmos Magazine, 09 April 2020
❯ Coronavirus: Exploiting nature 'drives outbreaks of new diseases' – BBC, 08 April 2020
❯ Why do viruses jump from animals to humans? Clues to the COVID-19 pandemic – Royal Society, 08 April 2020
❯ Want to Stop the Next Pandemic? Start Protecting Wildlife Habitats – Time, 08 April 2020
❯ The mystery of how a tiger caught Covid-19 has experts chasing their tails – Washington Post, 08 April 2020
❯ As humans move into animals’ territory, contagions like coronavirus risk being transmitted – San Francisco Chronicle, 08 April 2020
❯ Human exploitation of wildlife and their habitats is directly to blame for the increased spread of viruses from animals to humans, study claims – Daily Mail, 8 April 2020
❯ A real life 'Contagion': Humans may be to blame for viruses jumping from animals to us – CNN Health, 07 April 2020
❯ The Link Between Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment – UC Davis, 07 April 2020
❯ Habitat Destruction And Biodiversity Loss at the Root of Emerging Infectious Diseases – UC Davis, 07 April 2020
❯ Risk of Virus Spillover From Animals to Humans Increases Through Wildlife Exploitation and Domestication – Newsweek, 07 April 2020
❯ Deforestation isn't just an environmental problem. It's a public health crisis – ABC News, 07 April 2020
❯ Human impact on wildlife to blame for spread of viruses, says study – The Guardian, 07 April 2020
❯ What Could Warming Mean for Pathogens like Coronavirus? – Scientific American, 09 March 2020
❯ Why coronavirus could have slipped into U.S. long before screenings, travel restrictions – Sacramento Bee, 28 February 2020
❯ California and Coronavirus: Eight Cases Are Confirmed in the State – New York Times, 12 February 2020
❯ Melting Glaciers and Thawing Permafrost Could Release Ancient Viruses Locked Away For Thousands Of Years – Newsweek, 08 February 2020
❯ Coronavirus came from bats or possibly pangolins amid ‘acceleration’ of new zoonotic infections – Washington Post, 07 February 2020
❯ UCD professor sheds light on coronavirus – Davis Enterprise, 25 January 2020