Amy Pekol traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand May 7-10 to facilitate a training for Thai health faculty on mapping and evaluating student One Health competencies. This workshop was sponsored by the USAID-funded RESPOND project, which works to combat emerging pandemic threats. Pekol is a monitoring and evaluation specialist for the University of Minnesota RESPOND team, which is based in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Amy Pekol is a Ph.D. student in the comparative and international development education (CIDE) program track in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD).