“The Need for More C.A.R. in Wildlife Health: Consequences, Action, and Reverence” — a Special Species Symposium Keynote Lecture presented on March 30, 2025 by Dr. Craig Stephen, a Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Distinguished Speaker. This event was sponsored by the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center […]
Abstract: Emerging infections and environmental disruptions increasingly threaten wildlife and ecosystem health.Free-ranging wildlife often serve as early indicators of ecological instability, making timely detection ofmorbidity and mortality events critical for early warning. Yet, existing systems lack the analytical capacity forreal-time outbreak detection. We present WildAlert, an AI-driven early warning system […]
WildAlert- an AI-driven early warning system that integrates fine tuned BERT-based natural language processing models with unsupervised anomaly detection framework to
identify unusual wildlife health events using real-time pre-diagnostic clinical data from wildlife rehabilitation
organizations.
WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection 
Tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) previously not found in the Pacific Northwest has been detected in Washington state’s coyotes 
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Continues to Affect Wild Birds Across All Four U.S. Flyways 
Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) Annual Conference 2026: Chicago, Illinois July 26-31, 2026 
Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease Conference 2026 
Wildlife Disease Association 70th Annual International Conference 2022 
Virtual 36th Annual Wildlife & Exotic Animal Symposium hosted by the students of WAAM & AEMC at UC Davis 
Wildlife Disease Association/European Wildlife Disease Association Joint Virtual Conference 2021 Designed by WPZOOM
