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The latest Environmental Performance Index report has been released and can be found at:
http://epi.yale.edu/reports/2016-report

The EPI Report presents the latest environmental metrics and data to signal policymakers on where to improve performance.

Key Findings:

1. The world is making progress addressing some environmental issues while others have worsened considerably.
2. Economic development leads to improvement in some environmental areas, yet development is also associated with increased prevalence of environmental hazards.
3. When measurement is poor or not aligned with proper management, environmental and human health suffer.
4. Developing policy relevant indicators based in science is essential to appropriate measurement and management.
5. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement specifies climate change action expected from all countries, yet solid metrics to evaluate performance remain elusive

You may want to consider inclusion of environmental metrics into your One Health activities.

The report also recognises the challenges in developing such metrics.

Congratulations to two of our NEOH members who have received the following prize:

Best Graduate Student Papers/Oral Presentations at ISVEE 14, Yucatan, 2015: 

Babo MARTINS: Economic assessment of zoonoses surveillance in a “One Health” context: a conceptual framework (Presentation No. 56).

Laura FALZON:  The quantitative benefit of a “One Health” approach to study complex health issues: a systematic review (Presentation No. 53).

Each student will receive a $100 USD Award.

Applications are now open for Missions occurring between 1 Feb 2016 and 30 April 2016

Deadline 15 February 2016

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are aimed at supporting individual mobility and at strengthening the existing networks and fostering collaborations by allowing scientists to visit an institution in another participating COST country or an approved NNC or IPC institution.

This fourth STSM call aims to attract applications from researchers wishing to contribute to the tasks of Working Group 1 and 2 (WG1 and WG2), i.e. to inform and engage in the development of a handbook/protocol for evaluation of One Health initiatives (WG1), or to apply the framework or develop/apply metrics from the framework to case studies identified as relevant for WG2. In total, at least four STSMs are dedicated to WG1 and WG2 in this grant period and should preferably be performed to assist each of the sub-working groups in their progress.

STSMs in NEOH should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and / or methods not available in their own institutions / organisations, in particular of relevance for developing and performing evaluations of One Health activities.

Highest priority should be given to encouragement of early-stage career investigators’ (ECIs) participation in the COST Action activities.

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