This news item is about: Symposium focuses on Environmental Health and Emerging Zoonoses – an increasingly important health topic. The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University will be hosting the second annual Zoonotic Symposium on March 5-7, 2010. The symposium is organized by Cornell students at the College of Veterinary Medicine and is open to students enrolled in various health professional programs at the graduate and undergraduate level. Dr. James Fox, Director and Professor in the Division of Comparative Medicine and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will offer the keynote address entitled “One Health Commission: Impacts in Human, Animal, and Ecosystem Health.”