NEOH member Prof. Jonathan Rushton from the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK, was interviewed by Margaret Throsby on ABC Classic FM in Australia – a radio programme where guests are asked about their stories and choice of music that means the most to them.
To find out what Handel’s Messiah and One Health have in common visit http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2015/08/19/4295491.htm
Post-doctoral Fellowship in Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemiology
The One Health Institute in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis is seeking a post-doctoral researcher interested in advanced training in epidemiology and the ecology of diseases at the animal-human interface. Activities will focus on infectious diseases emerging at the animal-human interface, with special focus on ecology of diseases with wildlife reservoirs. Primary responsibilities relate to epidemiologic studies underway to inform on biosurveillance and the Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project which, together with a consortium of partners, implements surveillance activities to detect zoonotic pathogens with pandemic potential in Asia and Africa.
For more information, please download the Job Description or contact Christine Kreuder Johnson (ckjohnson@ucdavis.edu)
ISDS One Health Surveillance (OHS) – Case Study Awards
The International Society for Disease Surveillance is seeking submissions of One Health Surveillance Case Studies to identify and highlight examples of how professionals have implemented a One Health Surveillance approach that integrates animal, human, and environmental surveillance to address a public health threat.
Deadline for submissions is the 18th of September.
Three awardees will receive travel and registration to the 2015 ISDS Conference in December 2015!
Details and application link can be found on this Flyer and at http://www.syndromic.org/component/content/article/11-programming/983-isds-one-health-surveillance-case-study-awards
The concept of planetary health has been defined by The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health report, as “….the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems-political, economic, and social-that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish.”
The concept is based on the findings of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, nine planetary boundaries, which propose that we are in the “anthropocene era” where human activities are having substantial global effects on the Earth’s systems.
More about the planetary health concept can be read here at the lancet website.