If you have news of interest to the Global One Health Community, please forward it to cstroud@onehealthcommission.org.
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NEWS
See additional Recent and Past News items in past One Health Happenings News Notes! https://goo.gl/Vrp49c and on the Commission’s One Health News webpage. https://goo.gl/3pWeUN
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) takes steps to address antimicrobial resistance, a quintessential One Health issue
AVMA defines antimicrobial stewardship in animal health as the actions veterinarians take individually and as a profession to preserve the effectiveness and availability of antimicrobial drugs through conscientious oversight and responsible medical decision-making while safeguarding animal, public, and environmental health. AVMA has developed a set of core principles for antimicrobial stewardship in Veterinary Medicine. https://goo.gl/Ucnu9p
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APHA One Health Policy Statement
At its November 2017 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a One Health Policy Statement titled Advancing a ‘One Health’ Approach to Promote Health at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface was approved. The statement was prepared and submitted by the APHA Veterinary Public Health Special Interest Group. https://goo.gl/PQcHyW |
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Calling for Papers:
“Canine Rabies Surveillance, Control and Elimination”
Special Journal Issue, MDPI Veterinary Sciences, Guest Editor: Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, DVM, PhD, MSPH.
Manuscripts using the One Health approach are especially encouraged.
This Special Issue is dedicated to discussing recent developments in canine rabies surveillance, and exploring new control and elimination strategies for canine rabies.
Deadline: March 31, 2018 https://goo.gl/tJMB6J
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OHEART PhD Fellowship
The Ohio State University’s Global One Health initiative (GOHi) is now offering a new PhD fellowship as part of its
One Health East Africa Research and Training (OHEART) Program. Funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center, this PhD Fellowship program aims to train future researchers and trainers using an integrated multidisciplinary “One Health” approach. Priority will be given to the academic or research institutes identified as primary capacity strengthening partners in OHEART. https://goo.gl/EJaDFy
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WHO Reviews List of Blueprint Priority Diseases – Zoonotic One Health Challenges
Following its second annual review, WHO experts have prioritized 8 diseases, all zoonotic One Health challenges. There is an urgent need for accelerated research and development on these diseases because of their potential to cause a public health emergency and the absence of efficacious drugs and/or vaccines . The 8th priority, Disease X, represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease and so the R&D Blueprint explicitly seeks to enable cross-cutting R&D preparedness as far as possible that is also relevant for an unknown “Disease X” . https://goo.gl/CkCyyN
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Be One Health Aware!!!
Zoonotic Disease Risks for (U.S.) Animal Health workers
The U.S. National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) publishes Compendia, white papers, and other documents providing standardized national recommendations for prevention of zoonotic diseases that animal health workers might routinely be exposed to. These materials, especially the Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions (VSP) for Zoonotic Disease Prevention in Veterinary Personnel, are useful not only to those who work with animals but also to physicians, physicians assistants, nurses and other human health / public health workers to increase familiarity with diseases that they should be watching for in their animal health worker patients. Animal workers are urged to read and closely follow the VSP for personal health protection. Human health care providers are encouraged to print out the Appendices (pp 21-23) and post them for quick reference as reminders to ask occupational risks questions of patients who work with animals or in outdoor settings. (If you live outside the U.S. and know of similar publications useful to clinicians around the world, please share them with the One Health Commission so we can help raise awareness. https://goo.gl/brqnFd
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See a Snapshot, Fall 2016, of One Health Training, Research and Outreach programs around the world. https://goo.gl/P1sD9o
Start Planning your One Health Day 2018 Event NOW….
Register it on the OH Day website to get on the map!
And Don’t Forget the Student Event Competitions! https://goo.gl/pTBFu0 Watch for announcement coming soon of OH Day 2017 Student Event Winners.
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EVENTS
See additional Events, Past, Present and Future, on the One Health Commission’s Events webpage https://goo.gl/Ein7UP
Send information about One Health Events to cstroud@onehealthcommission.org.
January 6-11, 2018
2018 Pathways Africa Conference and Training
Windhoek, Namibia – Hosted by Colorado State University, The Cheetah Conservation Fund, the Large Carnivore Management Association of Namibia and the Namibia Nature Foundation. Pathways is a conference and training program designed to address key issues that arise as people and wildlife struggle to coexist in a sustainable and healthy manner. https://goo.gl/AW3e8o
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February 7, 2018
EU and the US: Shaping the One Health Agenda Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Presentation by Dr. Lorenzo Terzi at the One Health Academy, Washington, D.C., USA
Recording available. (Click the Register button)
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March 7, 2018 The Science of Flu: 100 Years of Fighting a Drifting, Shifting Virus
U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
This event is one of a series leading up to the new One Health themed exhibit, Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, opening at the National Museum of Natural History on May 18, 2018.
‘The Science of Flu:’ is open to the public. Attendees will see birds from the 1918 collection that carried avian flu, engage with experts and scientists on public issues related to influenza, and participate in activities. The event is free but you must register ahead of time to attend. https://goo.gl/2twDzN |
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March 21-22, 2018 8th One Health Sweden Scientific Meeting
The theme of the meeting is “Human versus animal health – different aspects on three challenging pathogens” with the focus on Campylobacter, hepatitis E and tuberculosis. https://goo.gl/zta6MB
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April 14, 2018 5th Annual One Health Fair at the St Louis Zoo
St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The Saint Louis Zoo is the only zoo that hosts such a One Health Fair. Two veterinary colleges (Univ of Ill and Univ of Missouri), two medical colleges (Wash U and St Louis U) and two undergraduate ecology schools (Wash U and Fontbonne) participate. The event brings together teams of 3 which include an MD, DVM and ecology/environment student. These teams work together on some One Health topic, learn to speak the same language and just get to know students in another arm of OH. After a few weeks of working together they have ½ a day on to present their topic to Zoo visitors (up to 20,000). https://goo.gl/miEWt2
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June 25-29, 2018 3rd Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week,
Accra, Ghana.
This international, interdisciplinary conference explores food systems, agri-environmental sectors, nutrition and health, bringing together researchers from across the world to share advances in development-focused research linking these disciplines. Call for Abstracts due by Feb 18
with particular interest in exploring these issues in Africa through a health economics lens.
https://goo.gl/VKz7xA
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August 15-18, 2018 EcoHealth Congress 2018, Cali, Colombia
Organized by Universidad del Valle and the International Association for Ecology and Health.
Ecohealth is about understanding the connections between environment, society and health. This approach goes beyond the usual analysis of relationships between biological and physical components of ecosystems and human populations, by including systems thinking and the analysis of the political dimensions of complex problems with trans-disciplinary teams. Abstracts due by March 4. http://ecohealth2018.co/
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September 11-14, 2018
15th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases
Co-hosted by CDC, NIH and NEHA (National Environmental Health Association, USA), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Lyme disease is widespread throughout North America, Europe, and northern Asia, and prevention is a challenge that must be addressed, especially during the summer months. Professionals in the fields of Lyme and other tickborne disease diagnostics, ecology, environmental health, epidemiology, medicine, microbiology, and pathogenesis are invited to participate. https://goo.gl/4Znvoa
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January 9-11, 2019
One Health International Conference (OHIC 2019) Philippines
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OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteer
One Health EpiCorp Volunteers Sought!
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is looking for volunteer health professionals with formal education and training in animal, human, and environmental health with knowledge of basic principles of epidemiology, infectious disease or related fields to join the EpiCore network of over 2,000 members from 142 countries who work to speed-up early detection of outbreaks. EpiCorp volunteers help save lives by responding to requests for information (RFIs) from experts in the field of infectious diseases who find evidence of a possible outbreak. More information or to apply, info@epicore.org https://goo.gl/uYSEsd
Summer Programs
Amgen Undergraduate Scholars Summer Program
Every year, the Amgen Scholars Program provides 340 selected undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in a hands-on research experience at many of Europe, USA, and Asia’s premier educational institutions – posted onTrialect . Eligible students enrolled at colleges and universities throughout the world may apply. Stipend, Housing and round-trip travel costs are covered and the amount depends on the host University. Depending up on where you live, you can apply to the following programs:
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May 17 – June 10, 2018
Duke One Health Training Program
The 2017 Duke One Health Training Program class included 42 scholars from 7 countries: China, Egypt, Lebanon, Mongolia,Morocco, Pakistan and the USA. https://goo.gl/6CbXXn
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June 3 – June 9, 2018
First Annual Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI)
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, Organized by the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM). For students, postdocs, faculty, public health practitioners, physicians, and veterinarians. Evolution is largely absent from medical and public health training, yet is vital to tackling our most urgent health challenges, including emerging infectious diseases, the evolution of microbial resistance, increasing prevalence of autoimmune diseases, the obesity epidemic, threats to food safety, neurodegenerative disease, and cancer. https://goo.gl/CZAatr |
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June 11-22, 2018
McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health
The McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases & Global Health in Montreal, Quebec, Canada offers courses featuring internationally renowned faculty, diverse participant groups, and opportunities for networking and collaboration.Registration for the 2018 Summer Institute is now open. https://goo.gl/v6aaSi
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Youth Health Equity Summer Fellow
Summer 2018, open to undergraduates and graduate students. February 19 deadline to submit applications.
https://goo.gl/KQG5wW
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Internships / Fellowships
ACMCIP Exchange Fellowship for 2018
Sponsored by the American Committee of Molecular, Cellular and Immunoparasitology (ACMCIP), with generous funding from its parent organization, ASTM, this new pilot award is aimed at all levels of trainees, including junior independent researchers seeking to gain new or additional research skills by visiting laboratories employing cutting-edge methods. Application deadline March 1, 2018. https://goo.gl/83ttJE
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PRB Policy Communication Fellows Program
The Policy Communication Fellows Program seeks to train the next generation of leaders shaping policy in their countries. The fellowship is hosted in partnership with African research and advocacy experts to encourage South-South collaboration and knowledge exchange. Fellows will learn, firsthand, local advocacy priorities and policy landscapes and how to tailor their research messages to relevant policy audiences.Apply by February 12. https://goo.gl/Rrk3dt |
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Sanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Departments of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University seek a scholar whose research and publications engage empirically, analytically, and theoretically with the intertwining of environment and health. The Program anticipates selecting a scholar whose work touches on themes of broad interest such as social justice, sustainability, resilience, and risk, including reflections upon the conceptual apparatus of environ-mental health itself. The geographic focus of research is open. Apply by February 1. https://goo.gl/zGE35M
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Graduate Studies
Master of Science in Global health Delivery (MGHD)
Full-time, one-year program at the University for Global Health Equity, Uganda, one-of-a-kind learning experiences rooted in the principles of global health, One Health, epidemiology, global health policy, management, finance, and leadership, preparing students to tackle complex health care delivery challenges in communities that need it most. Apply by February 12. https://goo.gl/pD6PxL
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Jobs
Division Director- Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS, Job ID #91009)
School of Public Health/Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago
Close date: March 15, 2018. The EOHS Division has a dynamic, multi-disciplinary and impactful portfolio of research and service that reflect its values of community engagement and equity. https://goo.gl/dYodyF
Veterinary Epidemiologist
Help gear up veterinary epidemiology capacity for FAO’s Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Office in Liberia, 2 months plus, Provide Epi training to the Epi staff at MoA and ECTAD National Epi Expert, hands-on, very practical with some theoretical background. Contact Sophie.VonDobschuetz@fao.org
One Health Faculty Director
University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) Kigali, Rwanda
The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is a new kind of university focused on training the next generation of global leaders in health care delivery. The One Health Faculty Director (OHFD), in close collaboration with the UGHE Teaching and Learning Team, will support the establishment and success of One Health programming at UGHE. https://goo.gl/8YXCts
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From the One Health Library
See publications, webinars, journals, blogs, presentations, books, newsletters and more in the Commission’s growing One Health Library. https://goo.gl/etUQ97
Journal Articles
A Systematic Review of Zoonotic Enteric Parasitic Diseases Among Nomadic and Pastoral People
Barnes AN, Davaasuren A, Baasandagva U, Gray CG, PLOS One, 2017, November 30. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188809
The science behind One Health: at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment
Murtaugh MP, Steer CJ, Sreevatsan S, Patterson N, Kennedy S and Sriramarao P (2017), Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1395: 12-32. doi:10.1111/nyas.13355
Quantitative Outcomes of a One Health approach to Study Global Health Challenges
Falzon, L.C., Lechner, I., Chantziaras, I. et al. EcoHealth 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1310-5
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One Health Economics to confront disease threats
Machalaba C, Smith KM, Awada L, Berry K, et al, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
, Volume 111, Issue 6, 1 June 2017, pp 235-237, 16 October 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trx039
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From Invention to Innovation: Risk Analysis to Integrate One Health Technology in the Dairy Farm
Lombardo A, Boselli C, Amatiste S, Ninci S, et al. 23 November 2017, Front. Public Health, doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00302
Workshop Report – Prevent, Prepare, and Respond: Economics of One Health to Confront Disease Threats
This report reflects a workshop held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., 30 January – 2 February 2017, convened through the generous support of the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT-2 project and the World Bank, in partnership with EcoHealth Alliance and the European Union Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action Network for Evaluation of One Health. https://goo.gl/mAkR1n
Worries grow that climate change will quietly steal nutrients from major food crops
Milius S, Science News, Vol. 192, No. 11, p. 28, 2017 December 23. https://goo.gl/HPr2yn
Why healthy soils and forests are key to climate protection and prosperity
Rueter G, DW,Environment, Sustainability, 2017 December 20. http://p.dw.com/p/2phKT
Zoos and public health: A partnership on the One Health frontier
Robinette C., Saffran L., Ruple A., and Deem S.L. Elservier, One Health. 3: 1-4. 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2016.11.003
International Development, Emerging Diseases, and Ecohealth
Editorial, Standley CJ, & Bogich TL, EcoHealth 10, 1-3, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-013-0820-z
One Health: Competing perspectives in an emerging field
Kingsley P, Taylor EM, (2017), Parasitology,144(1), 7-14. 2016 January 28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182015001845
The need for European OneHealth / EcoHealth networks
Keune H, et., Archives of Public Health, The official journal of the Belgian Public Health Association, 2017, 75:64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0232-6
Engaging One Health for Non-Communicable Diseases in Africa: Perspective for Mycotoxins
Ladeira C, Frazzoli C, Orisakwe OE. 16 October 2017, Front. Public Health doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00266
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Documentary – Unseen Enemy
Did you miss it in 2017? Released April 2017 on CNN by Johnson & Johnson, award-winning director Janet Tobias and some of the world’s top experts explore lurking viruses and bacteria that may create the next global pandemic.
Facebook: https://goo.gl/6h1jx9
Watch Official Trailer : https://goo.gl/vvX1Jl
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Thank You to One Health Commission’s Sponsors!
Without you we could not do the Commission’s global work to
‘connect, create, and educate‘ for One Health.
February One Health Spotlight on OHC Sponsors
Thank You to the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute!
KCALSI has been a staunch supporter of the One Health Commission since its very early days and exemplifies One Health Leadership on many fronts.
One Health at Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute
- One Health Innovations Symposia 2016 and 2017 celebrated One Health Day
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Thank You to OHC Board Member, Wayne Carter, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, for his unwavering support of One Health and the One Health Commission |
About OHC Donations and Sponsorship
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