One Health Commission- Newsletter

January 15, 2017

 

One Health Happenings! 

 

 

 

 

Happy 2018

 

If you have One Health 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 on the Commission’s One Health News webpage.

https://goo.gl/3pWeUN

 

Who’s Who in Students for One Health (SOH) 

Attention Students!

Help the Students for One Health Executive Council (SOHExCO) and the One Health Commission (OHC) identify all SOH groups around the world and create a way for students working for One Health to ‘connect’. Visit this ‘Who’s Who in SOH’ webpage and take actions to get your group on the map and get involved.

https://goo.gl/XF0H5Q

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Coming May 18, 2018      New Smithsonian ‘Outbreak’ Exhibit

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will mark the 100th anniversary of the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918 with a new exhibition, ‘Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World’, which has a One Health focus and will remain on view for the public for three years. https://goo.gl/rLdyRe

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January 30, 2018 Abstracts Due for the April 29

3rd International Conference on One Medicine One Science, ICOMOS  

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA

https://goo.gl/irxULw

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U.S. CDC’s Zoonotic Disease Prioritization Workshops 

The U.S. CDC collaborates with countries and other partners to conduct One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization workshops to help countries identify their top five zoonotic diseases of greatest national concern.  Prioritizing zoonotic diseases means countries can more efficiently build laboratory capacity, conduct disease surveillance, plan outbreak response and preparedness activities, and create collaborative disease prevention strategies to reduce illness and death in people and animals. https://goo.gl/5fdJYH

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 Using a One Health Approach to Combat Tick-Borne Diseases

 

Infections transmitted by ticks are increasingly recognized as important causes of disease in humans and pets in North America.  https://goo.gl/ZpM8q7

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December 10, 2017   World Veterinary Association (WVA) Declaration of Incheon on the     Role of the Veterinary Profession in One Health and EcoHealth Initiative

One outcome of the World Veterinary Congress 2017 in Incheon, Seoul, South Korea is the VETERINARY VISION 2050 Declaration to emphasize the professional and societal roles of veterinarians in One Health networks.  On 10th December 2017, the World Veterinary Association (WVA) Council adopted that Declaration as the WVA Declaration of Incheon on the Role of the Veterinary Profession in One Health and EcoHealth Initiatives.

 

https://goo.gl/XAjKxc

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 November 5-6, 2017  G7 Health Ministers’ Communiqué embraces One Health

At the November, 2017 G7 meeting of Health Ministers in Milan, Italy,  several important references were made to One Health – a significant sign that the top 7 industrial nations of the world have embraced the One Health concept and approach. See G7 Health Ministers’ Communique©, United towards Global Health: Common Strategies for Common Challenges.

 

https://goo.gl/HfAabX

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United Nations ‘One Health Tripartite’ (FAO, OIE, WHO) Action Plans to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

1.   FAO Action Plan on AMR 2016-2010  – See ‘One Health’ references on pages iv, vi, 2, 4, 10, 14,

15, 17, http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5996e.pdf

 

2.  WHO Global Action Plan on AMR – See ‘One Health’ references in the Foreword and on pages 7, 13, VII,  https://goo.gl/Lef5Fb

 

3.  OIE Strategy on Antimicrobial Resistance and the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials

November 2016 – See ‘One Health’ references on pages 3 (in Foreword), 5, 6 (in Workplan)

https://goo.gl/i8nPLo

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January 21, 2017

 ONE HEALTH Listenmi News – Bay-C

Turn your speakers ON!

Bay-C, bass vocalist from platinum-selling dancehall/reggae quartet, TOK, in partnership with University of the West Indies’ One Health One Caribbean One Love Project produced a ListenMi Feature on One Health. Bay – C is One Health’s Celebrity Patron, ideator of ListenMi News and is a Caribbean pioneer in ‘edu-tainment.’ https://goo.gl/6VFM1D

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 January Academic One Health Spotlight

 

Ohio State Global One Health Initiative (GOHi)    https://goo.gl/YdrZ2n

 

See more academic One Health programs around the world: https://goo.gl/P1sD9o 

 

Highlight your Academic One Health programs in One Health Happenings. Send a brief summary to cstroud@onehealthcommission.org

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Start Planning your One Health Day 2018 Event NOW….

and don’t forget to register it on the OH Day website to get on the map!

 

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EVENTS

See additional Events, Past, Present and Future, on the One Health Commission’s Events webpage

https://goo.gl/Ein7UP

 

January 29, 2018       Operationalizing One Health: From Assessment to Action

Side event at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.

https://goo.gl/16Q7Ra

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January 30, 2018    

ISDS One Health Symposium: Challenges and Solutions to Implementing One Health at the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) annual meeting,

Orlando, Florida, USA.  https://goo.gl/RWDj3N

 

 

 

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 February 10-14, 2018     

   

 15th CDC International Symposium on Biosafety, “Biosafety in the Era of One Health“,

Crowne Plaza Ravinia in Atlanta, GA, USA.  Hear from industry leaders on the connection between biosafety and animal research. Agenda

 

https://goo.gl/n4b5v6

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March 15, 2018   

Addressing Health and Opportunity Disparities at the Human-Animal-Environmental Interfaces

    One Health Pre-conference satellite session at Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)  2018 annual conference ,

New York City, NY, USA

http://cugh2018.org/one-health

 

 

 

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April 29, 2018

3rd International Conference on One Medicine One Science, ICOMOS, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA. https://goo.gl/irxULw

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May 29 -June 1, 2018      

Planetary Health Annual Meeting

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

https://planetaryhealthannualmeeting.org/

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June 22-25, 2018

 5th International One Health Congress

 Saskatoon, Canada

https://goo.gl/8TTHL5

 

 

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September 5-8, 2018   

2nd European Inter-regional One Health Conference

Bucharest, Romania

 

https://goo.gl/hvJkRE

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September 10-12, 2018   

Creating impact for One Health and Ecohealth: advancements in implementation, evaluation and governanceBologna, Italy 

Organized by The EU COST funded project Network for Evaluation of One Health

(NEOH), the Belgian Community of Practice Biodiversity and Health and the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL) of the University of Bologna, https://goo.gl/xSaAhc

 

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September 18-19, 2018   

One Health & Food Safety Congress 2018

Bonn, Germany, Abstract Deadline: 28th February 2018

 

https://goo.gl/FhnSW4

 

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OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Courses 

 

May 7- June 8, August 12-17,  2018 – One Health International Summer Course 2018

 

Copenhagen, Denmark, Organised by University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark, Deadline for application: 1 April 2018,  https://goo.gl/94wdtb

 

7 May – 8 June 2018: 5-weeks internet-based module plus

12 – 17 August 2018: One week on-campus module

 

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July 9 – August 3, 2018  Rx One Health 2018

Sponsored by UC Davis Veterinary Medicine One Health Institute.   Travel to Tanzania for this intensive 4-week course aimed at early career health, agriculture, and conservation professionals (students, staff, faculty) who wish to gain knowledge and skills in the principles and practices of One Health. The Rx One Health course provides a unique hands-on experience to learn with a diversified group of global health professionals. Applications accepted through January 30, 2018.

Rx One Health – A Student’s Perspective

 

https://goo.gl/vZHLmZ

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Call for Papers

 

PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Climate Change and Health:  

     The editors of PLOS Medicine, together with Guest Editors Jonathan Patz (Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Madeleine Thomson (International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University) announce a Special Issue on Climate Change and Health, to be published in Summer 2018. Submit by February 2, 2018.  https://goo.gl/XLMkB3

 

 

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Internships

 

National Park Service internships

     The U. S. National Park Service, in collaboration with the George Mason University ESP program, is offering a series of internships for graduate and undergraduate students. For more information, check out internships in Natural Resource Museum Collections, Natural Resource Data Management, Natural History Museums Collections, Hydrology, GIS Data Management, Fish Data Management. https://goo.gl/MocJpd

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Graduate Studies

 

InterRisk – International One Health Master’s Program

Shared by the One Health Network of SouthEast Asia. A new international Master’s double degree programme, jointly overseen by  Kastesart University (Bangkok, Thailand) and Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France), trains future risk managers using active pedagogical methods. The curriculum is guided by a Study on One Health Education in SE Asia.

https://goo.gl/Yjfxya

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Jobs

 

Assistant or Associate Professor in Residence- Environmental Health Sciences

Berkeley, CA, USA

School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Candidates are sought who have demonstrated excellence, originality and productivity in research, and an interest in undergraduate and graduate teaching with particular interest in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and service. Recruitment through Jan 29, 2018.

https://goo.gl/TcEQNc

https://goo.gl/NHVQFx

 

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Publications

See publications, webinars, journals, blogs, presentations, books, newsletters and more in the Commission’s growing One Health Library. https://goo.gl/etUQ97

 

Journal Articles 

 

From Invention to Innovation: Risk Analysis to Integrate One Health Technology in the Dairy Farm

Lombardo A, Boselli C, Amatiste S, Ninci S, Frazzoli C, Dragone R, De Rossi A, Grasso G, Mantovani A, Brajon G. Front Public Health. 2017 Nov 23; 5:302.

 

One Health research and training and government support for One Health in South Asia

McKenzie JS, PhD,1, Dahal R, MPH,2 Kakkar M, et al.  Infect Ecol Epidemiol. 2016; 6: 10.3402/iee.v6.33842. 2016 Nov 29. DOI:  10.3402/iee.v6.33842

 

One Health/EcoHealth capacity building programs in South and South East Asia: a mixed method rapid systematic review  Chatterjee P1, Chauhan AS1, Joseph J1, Kakkar M2, Hum Resour Health. 2017 Sep 29;15 (1):72. DOI: 10.1186/s12960-017-0246-8.

Building a foundation for ‘One Health’: an education strategy for enhancing and sustaining national and regional capacity in endemic and emerging zoonotic disease management

Vink WD1, McKenzie JS, Cogger N, Borman B, Muellner P. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2013;366:185-205. DOI: 10.1007/82_2012_241.

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Approach to a Global Threat: Proceedings of a Workshop   

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2017 Dec 8.

 

A Delphi Survey and Analysis of Expert Perspectives on One Health in Australia

Degeling C1, Johnson J2, Ward M3, Wilson A4, Gilbert G1. Ecohealth. 2017 Dec;14(4):783-792. doi: 10.1007/s10393-017-1264-7. Epub. 2017 Aug 22.

 

Online surveillance of media health event reporting in Nepal: digital disease detection from a One Health perspective 

Schwind, J.S., Norman, S.A., Karmacharya, D. et al. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2017) 17: 26.  2017 September 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12914-017-0134-2

 

A Code of Ethical Conduct for the Public Health Profession  Laaser U, Schröder-Bäck P, Eliakimu E, Czabanowska K, Think-Tank for Sustainable Health & Well-being (GHW-2030) T. SEEJPH 2017, Vol. 9. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-177

 

Toward holistic governance in an interdependent world  Lueddeke G. (Editorial). SEEJPH 2017, 26

November 2017. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2017-176

Editorial calling for “One Health in all policies.”

 

The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks  Keune E, et. al. Archives of Public Health. The official journal of the Belgian Public Health Association, 2017 Oct 26. 201775:64,https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0232-6

 

Establishing a One Health office in Kenya  Murithi Mbabu, Ian Njeru, Sarah File et al. Pan Afr Med J. 2014; 19: 106. Doi: 10. 11604/ pamj.2014.19. 106.4588

 

One Health Approach supports Global Health Security 

Special Issue of the U.S. CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal,  Volume 23, Number 13, December 2017

https://goo.gl/YiusJY

 

 

 

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Approach to a Global Threat,  Proceedings of a Workshop 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop, June 20-21, 2017. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2017 Dec 8.  https://goo.gl/3FhvJQ

 

 

BOOKS

 

 

New 2017 Caribbean Resilience and Prosperity Through One Health

Edited by Chris Oura, Adana Mahase-Gibson and Craig Stephen. E-Book published by One Health Caribbean, 2017

 

“The Caribbean is the world’s most tourist-dependent region…The need for an integrated approach is demonstrated by the challenges we face from more frequent and more severe tropical storms and hurricanes, water shortages, rises in sea level, loss of fisheries, increases in mosquito-borne diseases, and chronic illnesses linked to improper nutrition and environmental pollution.” https://goo.gl/autK2M

 

 

Prepared by C. Stroud and Blair Budd

 

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