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The Wildlife Health Center is a multidisciplinary program within the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis that focuses on the health of freeranging and captive terrestrial and aquatic wild animals. It is the umbrella organization under which faculty, staff, students, and other partners come together to address the complex issues surrounding conservation in a changing world. The Center draws upon faculty expertise spanning a wide range of wildlife species and scientific disciplines and attracts students from around the world to participate in its research and educational programs.

Programs of the Wildlife Health Center

SeaDoc Society
Founded in 1999, conducts and sponsors scientific research in the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest. We work to figure out what's happening to our local species, and why. And then we share that information by facilitating collaboration and networking among the different agencies, governments, and individuals who make the decisions about how the 6 million people living in Puget Sound can live in harmony with the marine environment.

Southern California Ecosystem Health Program
Beyond the bumper-to-bumper freeways, beyond the tiled roofs of the never-ending housing developments, beyond the smog and the billboards, Southern California is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the nation. But the area is expected to house millions more people over the next quarter century, making the need for attention to the health and sustainability of the region's animals and ecosystems urgent. Successful conservationoriented scientific efforts in this geographically and demographically diverse region must bring together a multitude of stakeholders.

In a region fraught with land and water use battles, stakeholders need unbiased, objective, topquality scientific information. Without solid facts, decisions about where to develop land, how to manage endangered species, how to prevent massive wildfires, how to help people live near potentially-dangerous wildlife-can be nearly impossible. The management agencies, recognizing the need for outside scientific expertise, came to the WHC to help bring the science to build sound solutions. SCEHP brings together a series of studies to address conservation issues in this region. SCHEP projects are based on stakeholder priorities, funded annually at $300,000 to 600,000 through a combination of public and private funds, and aim to:

• To ensure the health of wildlife and their Southern California wildlands
• To find the balance between the needs of people and wildlife
• To create a model for solving problems in other areas facing fragmentation

Oiled Wildlife Care Network
The Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN), a statewide collective of wildlife care providers and regional facilities interested in working with oil-affected wildlife, was established with the mission to "strive to ensure that wildlife exposed to petroleum products in the environment receive the best achievable treatment by providing access to permanent wildlife rehabilitation facilities and trained personnel which are maintained in a constant state of readiness for oil spill response within California." The OWCN is administered by the Wildlife Health Center at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. This partnership of regulatory agencies, academia and wildlife professionals is recognized as the world leader in oil spill response, rescue, rehabilitation and research, and is an outstanding example of how such institutions and organizations can collectively work toward a common goal.