Author: ibeange

  • Healthcare: Special Journal Issue

    The journal Healthcare is publishing a Special Issue on “Ethics, Health, and Natural Resources” to investigate some of the most interesting, important, and complex intersections of healthcare ethics and environmental ethics exploring questions like:

    1. Which features of ethical deliberation about healthcare and the environment are most in need of transformation and why?
    2. How ought we go about the project of transforming public debates to generate innovation in our ethical approaches to health and ecological stewardship?
    3. Which ethical values are most critical for thinking powerfully about our obligations as individuals and as collectives to motivate conditions that support health?
    4. Which ethical values, critical frameworks, or theoretical approaches are most helpful in negotiating tension among individual well-being, community well-being, and ecological well-being?
    5. What are ethical value-based strategies for weighing short-term industrial and economic gains against short- and long-term consequences for health and ecology?

    For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare/special_issues/ethics

    The submission deadline is 15 September 2015. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. I also encourage you to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance healthcare@mdpi.com.

  • Dr Savic represented NEOH at EURNEGVEC meeting

    The COST action ‘EURNEGVEC – EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR NEGLECTED VECTORS AND VECTOR-BORNE INFECTIONS’, TD1303  (http://www.eurnegvec.org/ ) had its 3rd management committee meeting and 2nd annual meeting themed ” THE 2ND CONFERENCE ON NEGLECTED VECTORS AND VECTOR BORNE DISEASES (EURNEGVEC) WITH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND WORKING GROUP MEETINGS OF THE COST ACTION TD1303″ in Izmir (Kushadasi), Turkey on the MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2015.

    EurNegVec Izmir 2015

    The purpose of the meeting was to get an overview of what is going on in COST countries on the topic of vectors, pathogens and vector borne diseases in humans animals and vectors. It was attended by around 100 people from Europe, Israel and Turkey. Dr Sara Savic (http://niv.ns.ac.rs/?p=238&lang=en), the Working Group 2 leader in NEOH, gave a presentation on the scope, activities, work plan and members of NEOH in the session themed “One Health”, which was chaired by Prof. Dr David Modry. The presentation was well received, people were interested and in general welcomed this new One Health initiative. Questions raised enquired mostly about the ways of possible cooperation between two actions and also on possible publications among both actions; both activities warmly supported by COST.

  • Upcoming Events

    The following events have been added to the NEOH website in the few weeks.
    Please click the links below each event for more details.


    ICOPHAI 2015  

    The third International Congress on Pathogens at the Human Animal Interface (ICOPHAI) 2015 

    Abstract Deadline 15 April 2015

    Date: 6th – 8th Aug 2015

    Location:  Chiang Mai, Thailand

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/icophai-2015/


    RCPath Conference: Emerging Zoonoses

    Royal College of Pathologists:  Emerging Zoonoses and AMR: A one-health approach through multidisciplinary collaboration

    Date: Friday 15 May 2015

    Location:  London, UK

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/rcpath-conference-emerging-zoonoses/

     


    European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE)

    Abstract Deadline: 11 May 2015

    Date: 11th -13th November 2015

    Location:  Stockholm, Sweden

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/escaide-2015/

     


     Training School: Vector-borne diseases and One Health

    Organised by the COST Action ‘European Network for Neglected Vectors and Vector-Borne Infections’ (http://eurnegvec.org/index.html).

    Application Deadline: 1st  May 2015

    Dates:  6th – 20th  July 2015

    Location: Danube Delta, Romania

    Participants:  Early Stage Researchers (10 grants available + 5 additional places)

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/training-school-vector-borne-diseases-and-one-health/


     

  • Journal Paper: Nature and Wellbeing Links

    A global research project was recently launched to examine the impact of urban policies on human health and wellbeing. They demonstrated strong evidence linking biodiversity with production of ecosystem services and between nature exposure and human health.

    The study has been published in the journal Ecosystem Services: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041614001648

    And an article about is available on BBC news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30989105