A forester, psychologist and microbiologist meet with each other in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula... No, this isn’t the start of a sappy joke. However, the story about to be told is sappy.Jesse Randall, director of the Michigan State University Forestry Innovation Center.
Jesse Randall, director of the Michigan State University Forestry Innovation Center, is working with a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional team of researchers across the U.S. to study the One Health properties of maple sap.
The concept of One Health illustrates how animal, environmental, human and plant health are closely connected to and interdependent of each other in ways that are cross-disciplinary yet unified. It’s a strength MSU is tapping into as a university with its One Team, One Health initiative, and it’s something the MSU AgBioResearch-supported center has been incorporating in its mission since Randall took over as director in 2018.