Author: ibeange

One Welfare – a platform for improving human and animal welfare paper has now been published in the Veterinary Record.

“A One Welfare approach complements the One Health approach and helps to empower the animal welfare and human well-being fields to address the connections between science and policy more effectively in various areas of human society, including environmental science and sustainability”

The paper states that the following are some of the outcomes for One Welfare:

• Reduction in animal and human abuse
• Improved animal welfare-addressing social problems
• Links between improved animal welfare and food safety
• Improved animal welfare- improved human well-being
• More efficient multidisciplinary approaches
• Improved life chances-human rehabilitation and animal rehoming
• Improved animal an farmer welfare-improved farming productivity
• Improved animal welfare-addressing poverty and local community support
• Improved animal welfare-improved food security and sustainability
• increased biodiversity-improved human well-being

Read more here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.i5470

The ISESSAH conference organising committee has decided to extend the deadline for abstract submissions for the ISESSAH inaugural meeting to the 13^th of November 2016.

Inaugural meeting of the International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health  (ISESSAH, http://www.isessah.com/), 27^th and 28^th of March 2017, Aviemore, Scotland

See more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/inaugural-isessah-meeting/

8^th Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions – 1 Nov 2016 and 30 April 2017

All STSM activities related to the 8^th call must occur in their entirety within the dates specified above. 

The deadline for applications is 10th Nov 2016, but applications can be submitted before and will be assessed soon after they are received.

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.

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. An applicant can be considered as being an ECI when the time that has elapsed between the award date of the applicants PhD and the date of the applicants first involvement in the NEOH COST Action does not exceed 8 years (or researchers late in their PhD).

This 8th STSM call aims to attract applications from researchers wishing to contribute to the tasks of Working Group 2, i.e. to apply the framework, index and/or protocol or to develop or apply metrics from the framework to case studies identified as relevant for WG2. However, applicants wishing to contribute to the revision of the NEOH handbook in Working Group 1 will also be considered.

In total, at least 8 STSMs are dedicated to WG1 and WG2 in this period and should preferably be used to assist the working groups in their progress.

Find out more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/short-term-scientific-missions/

The following event has been added to the NEOH website recently:

Flanders Annual Meeting of Ecology (FAME)

Abstract Deadline: 30th October 2016

Date(s): 19th December 2016

Location: University of Ghent, Belgium

Find out more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/flanders-annual-meeting-of-ecology/