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The June issue (Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2017) of the Athens Journal of Health has been uploaded: https://www.athensjournals.gr/ajh/current

The division organizes the following symposiums and streams:

11th Annual International Conference on Global Studies

Date:  18-21 December 2017

Location: Athens, Greece

Find out more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/11th-annual-international-conference-on-global-studies/

International Symposium on Global Health

Date:  7-10 May 2018

Location: Athens, Greece

Find out more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/international-symposium-on-global-health/ 

A new article has been published based on chapter 2 of the NEOH Handbook:

Roadmap to a One Health agenda 2030
Queenan, K., Garnier, J., Nielsen, L. R., Buttigieg, S., Meneghi, D. de, Holmberg, M., Zinsstag, J., Rüegg, S., Häsler, B., Kock, R.
CAB Reviews 2017 12, No. 014

Abstract

The current fragmented framework of health governance for humans, animals and environment, together with the conventional linear approach to solving current health problems, is failing to meet today’s health challenges and is proving unsustainable. Advances in healthcare depend increasingly on intensive interventions, technological developments and expensive pharmaceuticals. The disconnect grows between human health, animal health and environmental and ecosystems health. Human development gains have come with often unrecognized negative externalities affecting ecosystems. Deterioration in biodiversity and ecosystem services threatens to reverse the health gains of the last century. A paradigm shift is urgently required to de-sectoralize human, animal, plant and ecosystem health and to take a more integrated approach to health, One Health (OH). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a framework and unique opportunity for this. Through analysing individual SDGs, we argue the feasibility of an OH approach towards achieving them. Feasibility assessments and outcome evaluations are often constrained by sectoral politics within a national framework, historic possession of expertise, as well as tried and tested metrics. OH calls for a better understanding, acceptance and use of a broader and transdisciplinary set of assessment metrics. Key objectives of OH are presented: that humans reconnect with our natural past and accept our place in, and dependence on our planet’s ecosystems; and that we recognize our dependence on ecosystem services, the impact of our development thereon and accept our responsibility towards future generations to address this. Several action points are proposed to meet these objectives.

Read more at: http://www.cabi.org/cabreviews/review/20173134856

The European OneHealth/EcoHealth workshop took place in Brussels on 6-7 October 2016,  organised by the Belgian Community of Practice Biodiversity & Health which is facilitated by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

The report from this workshop can now be downloaded from: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/events/workshops/#BrusselsOct16

Special Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

One Health for a changing world: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being

From SARS to swine flu, and Ebola to Zika, a succession of disease outbreaks has spread alarm in an increasingly interconnected world. All the while, neglected diseases such as trypanosomiasis, brucellosis and Rift Valley fever have continued to devastate the lives of millions of vulnerable people in poorer parts of the world. The impacts of these diseases rarely make the headlines. There is though one thing many emerging and endemic diseases have in common: their origin in wild or domesticated animals. As such, both shine a spotlight on human-animal interactions, and raise important questions about the underlying environmental and socio-economic processes – including climate change, land-use change and urbanisation – which may be driving animal-to-human (zoonotic) disease transmission. The intersections of human, animal and ecosystem health lie at the heart of this issue.

With reference to case studies in Africa, this theme issue discusses the complex interactions at play, the social and political dimensions in which they exist and how modelling can help combine perspectives. Importantly, we interrogate the increasingly popular One Health movement which promotes an integrated, holistic approach to health. And we ask: has One Health really as much to offer in practice as it has in theoretical appeal?

This issue arose from a meeting held at the ZSL Institute for Zoology in March 2016.

Read more at: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/one-health-changing-world-zoonoses-ecosystems-and-human-well-being