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BSAC Short-Term Overseas Antimicrobial Fellowship. 
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Sponsor: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy(BSAC)
Deadline:28th February 2017

Overseas Scholarships are to enable workers from other countries the opportunity to work in UK Departments for up to six months.

These Scholarships are open to applicants on a worldwide basis. Successful candidates will be paid a grant of £1,250 per calendar month for a maximum of 6 months. The Society will reimburse the cost of return air fares and travel via the most economical route. Candidates will be asked to seek approval of travel costs in advance of any application.

As the deadline is fast approaching, we are reaching out to see if your fellows/students would be interested.  The details can be perused at : BSAC Short-Term Fellowships

A new journal article describing a conceptual framework of what OH approaches can encompass and the added values they can provide has been published in Frontiers in Public Health.

This framework was developed during a workshop conducted by NEOH.

A Blueprint to Evaluate One Health
Simon R. Rüegg et al
Front. Public Health, 16 February 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00020

Abstract: 

One Health (OH) positions health professionals as agents for change and provides a platform to manage determinants of health that are often not comprehensively captured in medicine or public health alone. However, due to the organization of societies and disciplines, and the sectoral allocation of resources, the development of transdisciplinary approaches requires effort and perseverance. Therefore, there is a need to provide evidence on the added value of OH for governments, researchers, funding bodies, and stakeholders.

This paper outlines a conceptual framework of what OH approaches can encompass and the added values they can provide.

The framework was developed during a workshop conducted by the “Network for Evaluation of One Health,” an Action funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology. By systematically describing the various aspects of OH, we provide the basis for measuring and monitoring the integration of disciplines, sectors, and stakeholders in health initiatives. The framework identifies the social, economic, and environmental drivers leading to integrated approaches to health and illustrates how these evoke characteristic OH operations, i.e., thinking, planning, and working, and require supporting infrastructures to allow learning, sharing, and systemic organization. It also describes the OH outcomes (i.e., sustainability, health and welfare, interspecies equity and stewardship, effectiveness, and efficiency), which are not possible to obtain through sectoral approaches alone, and their alignment with aspects of sustainable development based on society, environment, and economy.

This article is an open access publication accessible to readers anywhere in the world.

Read more at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00020

The following events have been added to the NEOH website recently:

An encouraging stance by David Nabarro, a WHO Director General candidate:

“New systems of governance – globally and nationally – may be needed; governance processes that encourage the development of interdisciplinary knowledge; the articulation of social, economic and environmental policies that are based on evidence; and cross-sectoral decision making that seeks, at all times, to safeguard the health of humans and the natural systems upon which we depend.”

Read more at: http://davidnabarro.info/index.asp?PageID=55