Author: ibeange

The latest quarterly One Health newsletter (Volume 9 Issue 1) by the University of Florida dedicated to enhancing the integration of animal, human, and environmental health for the benefit of all by demonstrating One Health in practice is now posted on the OHNL website and the One Health Initiative website.

A new One Health journal article has been published in PLoS Biology:
“One Health” or Three? Publication Silos Among the One Health Disciplines.
Manlove KR, Walker JG, Craft ME, Huyvaert KP, Joseph MB, Miller RS, et al. (2016)
PLoS Biol 14(4): e1002448.

Abstract

The One Health initiative is a global effort fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to address challenges in human, animal, and environmental health. While One Health has received considerable press, its benefits remain unclear because its effects have not been quantitatively described. We systematically surveyed the published literature and used social network analysis to measure interdisciplinarity in One Health studies constructing dynamic pathogen transmission models. The number of publications fulfilling our search criteria increased by 14.6% per year, which is faster than growth rates for life sciences as a whole and for most biology subdisciplines. Surveyed publications clustered into three communities: one used by ecologists, one used by veterinarians, and a third diverse-authorship community used by population biologists, mathematicians, epidemiologists, and experts in human health. Overlap between these communities increased through time in terms of author number, diversity of co-author affiliations, and diversity of citations. However, communities continue to differ in the systems studied, questions asked, and methods employed. While the infectious disease research community has made significant progress toward integrating its participating disciplines, some segregation—especially along the veterinary/ecological research interface—remains.

The full text can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448

Three NEOH members De Meneghi, K. De Balogh, M. and M. Vilhena have published a paper on “Experiences of international networks for collaborative education and research using the One Health approach”  in a special 2016 issue of the Italian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Global Health.

The paper can be downloaded from www.simetweb.eu/Page/WebObjects/PageSimet.woa/wa/displayPage?name=Pubblicazioni

Fellowship Applications Are Now for One Health EcoHealth, 3-7 Dec 2016, Australia

Applications for Fellowships to attend the One Health EcoHealth Congress are now open.   To be eligible for the Fellowship Award, the applicant must register and attend the Congress, and preference will be given to applicants who submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation or who are a co-author on a submitted abstract.

To apply for a Fellowship, please visit their website.  Applications close Tuesday 14 June 2016.