One Health Innovations Symposium The Nexus of Human and Animal Medicine AUGUST 28 – 29, 2016 Kansas City Convention Center

In partnership with the Schools of Veterinary Medicine at University of Missouri and Kansas State University, the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute will present a two day symposium focused on the translational and comparative aspects of human and animal medicine. The August 28 – 29 event entitled “One Health Innovations – The Nexus of Human and Animal Medicine” will be held at the Kansas City Convention Center.

One Health Advances and Successes in Comparative Medicine and Translational Research

Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD

Executive Director, One Health Commission (OHC)
Immediate Past Chair, North Carolina One Health Collaborative (NC OHC)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
NC State University

Comparative Oncology: One Health in Action

Amy K. LeBlanc, DVM, DACVIM

Director, Comparative Oncology Program
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Luis Carlos Montalván
The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute is pleased to welcome Former Captain Luis Carlos Montalván, a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and advocate as our guest speaker during lunch on Monday, August 29.  Luis, along with his beloved service dog, Tuesday, has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people across North America about disability awareness, trauma, and healing.  Their story of service, sacrifice, and restoration is touching and inspirational, providing undeniable proof of the unique bond that can occur between dogs and people.

Designed for physicians, veterinarians, and scientists interested in research and clinical studies, the two-day Symposium will feature speakers including Francis Karanu BVM, PhD, Cell Therapy Research Scientist, Likarda, LLC; David Baron, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation; Jeffrey Bryan, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM – Oncology, Associate Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Missouri; and *James Cook, DVM, PhD, William and Kathryn Allen Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Director, Orthopaedic Research Division, University of Missouri.

The Symposium will be presented in 1 hour segments on topical areas with 3 speakers, a human health, animal health and industry/regulatory speaker followed by a panel discussion. 

The agenda will include topical areas such as:

• Diabetes – Islet cell transplant
• Gene Therapy – Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Osteosarcoma Vaccine – Listeria Monocytogenes
• Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Gene Therapy – Melanoma
• Bioinformatic approaches to drug discovery
• Orthopedics
• Wharton Jelly – Stem Cell

Abstracts from this year’s Symposium will be published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Medicine and printed copies will be available for Symposium attendees.

*Dr. Cook is a member of the One Health Initiative Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Information provided by:

Tami Parr, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute| Communications/Event Planning, 30 W. Pershing Road, Suite 210 | Kansas City, MO 64108, Phone: 816-753-7700 | Fax: 816-285-0628 | Direct: 816-285-0584

Email: tparr@kclifesciences.org| Website: www.kclifesciences.org  

REAL SCIENCE NOW – Republican National Convention – Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

July 16, 2016 8:30am-5pm

The Institute for the Science of Origins and Great Lakes Science Center present: Real Science Now!

The Newest Science and Medicine Unblinkingly Distilled for the Public, Press and Republican National Convention.

http://origins.case.edu/rnc/

Great Lakes Science Center
601 Erieside Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114
July 16, 2016 8:30am-5pm

Free and open to the public! See you there!
Directions

“Top scientists on what’s now and what’s next! From new planets to curing cancer to virtual reality, human evolution, climate change, stem cells, viruses, nanoscience, black holes, the Higgs boson, water, energy, GMOs, HIV, DNA, antibiotic resistance in medicine and agriculture, addiction, autism, the brain, sleep, health care designed for your own personal genetics, and much more! Understandable précis direct from real scientists in the real world of science and medicine!”

                           Schedule http://origins.case.edu/rnc/schedule/

                           Biosketches http://origins.case.edu/rnc/biosketches/

Note:  The One Health concept is a non-partisan issue and all informational materials presented by Dr. Kahn at the upcoming RNC meeting are for educational purposes. 

U.S. One Health Commission (OHC) Sponsors Important One Health Webinar –July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT with Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP Presenting

"One Health can provide a safe, 'no judgment zone' for many needed conversations surrounding our most difficult global and environmental health challenges. On July 6, 2016 the One Health Commission was pleased to present Dr. Kahn's data driven research in her webinar, 'One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance'. The first of a two-part series, that webinar saw over 200 online attendees from over 30 countries. Now that the word is out, tomorrow's July 13th webinar on 'Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment' will likely draw even more participants."

 Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission  

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/index.cfm/37526/78598/antimicrobial_resistance_in_the_environment_part_2_of_2

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (Part 2 of 2)

07/13/2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  EDT

Title: Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (Part 2 of 2)

Overview: 
This presentation will discuss findings of widespread antibiotic resistance in the environment. Massive amounts of human and animal waste applied to agricultural fields alter the global “resistome.” Wildlife never exposed to antibiotics harbor antibiotic resistant bacteria in their feces. The Human Microbiome project has found that microbial cells outnumber human cells by an estimated 10-fold, fundamentally changing our perceptions about health and disease. Taken together, the findings of antibiotic resistance in external and internal environments suggest that human antibiotic use has altered global microbial populations in ways that we do not fully understand. We are fast approaching a post antibiotic era. This presents challenges and opportunities and will require a One Health approach to succeed. 

Learning Objectives: 
1. Understand the 21st century challenges posed by the growing human population and its increasing demands for terrestrial and aquatic animal proteins. 
2. Develop familiarity with metagenomics and “The Global Resistome.” 
3. Understand how open defecation jeopardizes human, animal, and environmental health. 
4. Understand how application of manure to agricultural fields alters the global “resistome” and harms global health. 

Speaker: 
Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP 
Research Scholar 
Program on Science and Global Security 
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 
Princeton University 

Dr. Kahn is a Co-Founder, One Health Initiative, http://www.onehealthinitiative.com and Columnist, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org  

 For more information, please click here.

Major One Health U.S. University Center of Excellence Helps Promote Global “One Health Day”

The University of California (UC Davis) College of Veterinary Medicine, a prominent and highly respected One Health oriented U.S. institution of higher learning is helping to promote the November 3, 2016 Global “One Health Day”.

Press Release (June 28, 2016): http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/article.cfm?id=3562

Home Page – Public Health box: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm

UC Davis One Health Blog posted June 7, 2016 - https://www.ucdavis.edu/one-health

Provided by:

Linda C. Ybarra

Director, Communications and Marketing

School of Veterinary Medicine

University of California, Davis (USA)

Lcybarra@ucdavis.edu

530-752-1362

Leading Veterinary Medicine, Addressing Societal Needs

2nd Global Conference on One Health - REGISTRATION SITE IS OPEN NOW

November 10-11, 2016 Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

The World Veterinary Association (WVA) and World Medical Association (WMA) in close collaboration with the JMA and JVMA are preparing the 2nd GCOH to be held on November 10th-11th in Kitakyusyu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

SEE: http://www.worldvet.org/news.php?item=289 and http://www.wma.net/en/50events/20otherevents/81onehealth/index.html

 One Health opinion...

One Health, Physicians (medical doctors), and more – June 28, 2016 National & International Status

This One Health viewpoint/opinion is from the perspective of having longstanding involvement in the One Medicine/One Health movement and being associated with

several of its past and present VIP leaders since 1962-63 beginning with the late doyen par excellence of worldwide veterinary public health, veterinarian James H. Steele, DVM, MPH during the 20^th century and early 21^st century.  The first decades of the 21^st century involved engagement with Dr. Steele and principally the extraordinary One Health Initiative team leader-colleagues Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Thomas P. Monath, MD, Jack Woodall, PhD, Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH, the late, great American Medical Association President, Ronald M. Davis, MD, MPH https://goo.gl/ul4Fhj,

Ronald M. Davis, MD
President, American Medical Association
Director, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention. Henry Ford Health System
One Ford Place, 5C
Detroit, Michigan 48202-3450

July 3, 2007 – American Medical Association (AMA)

"I'm delighted that the AMA House of Delegates has approved a resolution calling for increased collaboration between the human and veterinary medical communities and I look forward to seeing a stronger partnership between physicians and veterinarians.  Emerging infectious diseases, with the threats of cross-species transmission and pandemics, represent one of many reasons why the human and veterinary medical professions must work more closely together."
 

Historically, doctors of medicine (MD, DO etc.,), doctors of veterinary medicine (DVM, VMD, BVSc etc.), health scientist doctors of philosophy and science (PhD, DSc etc.) and others have played a significant role in advancing the concept of “One Medicine”, now commonly referred to as “One Health” nationally and internationally.  Primarily, this promotes the critically important One Health approach utilizing transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary co-equal collaborations for obtaining efficacious expeditious sustainable Global Health goals including public health and comparative medicine aspects so adeptly displayed under the One Health Umbrella graphic http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/OneHealth2.

The One Health Umbrella concept was developed collaboratively by ONE HEALTH SWEDEN and One Health Initiative team physicians, veterinarians and a PhD health scientist working collaboratively in December 2013 and January 2014.  Notably, the lead ONE HEALTH SWEDEN physician, Björn Olsen, MD, is a Professor and Senior Physician of Infectious Diseases at Uppsala University and University Hospital (Sweden) and a member of the One Health Initiative Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.  Dr. Olsen also established the first international open-access One Health Journal Infection Ecology and Epidemiology, The One Health Journal (Sweden) http://goo.gl/BjCCD1.

One Health Initiative website letterhead maxims, i.e. “One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment” and “One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come” were presciently preceded by the famous quote “Between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines--nor should there be. The object is different but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine” by physician, Rudolf Virchow, MD, 1821-1902, (Dr. Virchow is known as the ‘father of cellular pathology’).  There are abundant acknowledged professional endorsements http://goo.gl/WmSBCN and ample ongoing scientific evidence http://goo.gl/CBsqMr that it frequently has worked and does work like a charm!

Notably, there was also “[physician/veterinarian,] John McFadyean,[DVM, MD, 1853-1941] whose first love was veterinary medicine, receiving his veterinary medical diploma from Edinburgh veterinary school in 1876.  McFadyean graduated from medical school in 1882 and received his science degree in 1883.  He wanted degrees in Medicine and Science to prepare himself for an academic career in pathology and microbiology, grounded in the work of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. Although enthralled with the genius and discoveries of Koch, e.g. the famous Koch’s postulates … McFadayean respectfully challenged Koch’s erroneous assertion that Bovine TB was of little, if any concern, in its transmission to humans via milk and milk products.  Over a ten year span, Dr. McFadyean was proved correct and he was subsequently knighted in 1905 for his service to veterinary science and agriculture and for his brilliant work on the royal commission on TB.  He devoted his life to teaching pathology and anatomy, developing the field of veterinary research [subsequently called the “father of veterinary research”] and administering the London veterinary school. To this day, laboratory diagnosis of Anthrax can be confirmed by demonstrating the organism in blood, lesions or discharges using McFadyean’s methylene blue stain for the bacillus capsule.”

1.        Pattison, I. John Mcfadyean, Founder of Modern Veterinary Research. J.A. Allen 1981.

2.        Dunlop, R.H. & Williams, D.J. 1996.  Veterinary Medicine: an illustrated history.

        Mosby, New York. Pp. 399-401.

The above two momentous One Health physicians of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, among others, were model predecessors to many later-day 20^th and 21^st century visionary physician One Health supporters/advocates along with the organizations they have represented such as Virginia Dato, MD, MPH, and Kevin M. Sherin, MD, MPH, current One Health Initiative team Advisory Board members.  Both Drs. Dato and Sherin are past presidents of the American Association of Public Health Physicians http://www.aaphp.org/OneHealth.  More recently physicians at the Global Family Doctor’s organization - WONCA http://goo.gl/9CvJAX and http://goo.gl/RVrjIE, viz. Chief Executive Officer, physician Dr. Garth Manning http://goo.gl/08UP9s and Newsletter Editor, physician Dr. Karen Flagg (Australia) http://goo.gl/eQxncN have endorsed and helped promote the One Health concept.

In brief, when one observes the documented numbers of international (and U.S.) individual physicians and physician supporter/advocate organizations http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php now carrying the One Health torch, the expansionary evidence is indeed substantial!

Private queries lately have been occasionally received by the One Health Initiative website saying: “I still can’t tell if the One Health Initiative concept has really caught on.  I think a lot of us believe in it, but don’t see much action.”  The response has become obvious for some time now:

The OHI team’s website has chronicled/documented One Health progress since 2008, making an effort to be ecumenical towards all reputable One Health players (individuals and organizations) on the world scene, i.e. giving equal access to and posting all known pertinent and reputable One Health NEWS and Publication items.  All anyone needs to do is review (scan back) through the OHI website’s NEWS http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php and Publications http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications.php pages over the past several weeks, months and years.  The story is all there in black and white...showing the “One Health approach” exponentially exploding with lots of ‘action’! 

In addition, the One Health Newsletter http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/news/one-health-newsletter/, an original product of the Florida State Health Department and subsequently transferred under the auspices of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (USA) has provided consistent outstanding publication access to all qualified One Health professionals and scientists.  The OHI team has worked closely with the One Health Newsletter editor(s) and editorial staff since its onset.

Gregory Gray, MD, MPH, the early farsighted physician director of the University of Florida’s One Health Center of Excellence for Research & Training and a member of the OHI Advisory Board established the first (worldwide) One Health PhD program in public health http://goo.gl/VI5md4 beginning in the summer of 2012.   Currently Dr. Gray is a Professor, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Infectious Diseases & Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina (USA) and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and he continues fostering numerous One Health endeavors worldwide.           

Several examples are listed below of some remarkable pertinent One Heath textbooks surfacing on the scene beginning in 2010:

Human-Animal Medicine – Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and other Shared Health Risks https://goo.gl/JHmFLe - 1st Edition (2010)

The physician co-author of this landmark One Health textbook is Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Director of Human Animal Medicine Project (USA).  Dr. Rabinowitz is a member of the OHI Advisory Board and was formerly a strong One Health advocate at Yale Medical School.

Zoonoses – Protecting People and Their Pets :: Click Here :: - 1st Edition (2013)

Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria :: Click Here :: - 3rd Edition (2014)

Confronting Emerging Zoonoses: The One Health Paradigm (2014) :: Click Here ::

Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century - Toward New Paradigms, Policy and Practice (2015) :: Click Here ::

Also observe the significant evolution of four (4) outstanding international One Health Journals: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/journals.php.

The first landmark World Veterinary Association (WVA)/World Medical Association (WMA) Global Conference on One Health held in Spain in May 2015, brought together 330 delegates from 40 countries around the world to discuss the One Health Concept http://goo.gl/ij55zg.  The 2^nd is scheduled for Japan in November 2016 http://goo.gl/srEGtA.  The stage had been previously set for these historic One Health conferences in 2013, as reported by the visionary former President of the World Medical Association, also a former AMA President and longstanding OHI Advisory Board member, physician Cecil B. Wilson, MD http://goo.gl/INz20v.

“One Health” per se still has a long way to go yet for full acceptance and implementation...but over the last decade it has definitely been catching on big time and exponentially worldwide.  This has been true despite the ups and downs due primarily to inadequate “public affairs/media” expertise and a decided tendency for individuals and various One Health oriented institutions and organizations to become more or less insular, commonly called the “silo” effect.

However, a “shining light on the hill” in the true spirit of the One Health example that demonstrates moving forward and away from the parochial standards of some other high profile One Health entities is the vital, invaluable co-equal collaborative activities of the U.S. One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative team, and the One Health Platform Foundation.

Note recent international joint press releases for:

• Three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, and the One Health Platform Foundation are partnering to create a global “One Health Day”.  http://goo.gl/vfMDHU.  
• “Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education!” http://goo.gl/X4lT3I.

In summary, the One Health movement is progressing nicely but needs continuous encouragement and promotion from all segments of society that recognize and appreciate its crucial merit for expediting and enhancing global health now and in future.

Prepared by:

Bruce Kaplan, DVM                                                                  

Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative website

Co-Founder One Health Initiative team/website

http://goo.gl/KujQkP

E-mail:  bkapdvm@verizon.net

Phone/fax: 941-351-5014

www.onehealthinitiative.com

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team:

Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪

Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH

New Publications in the One Health Journal Veterinary Sciences — Basel, Switzerland

The new online Open Access journal Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci) published two new issues in 2016:

Vet. Sci., Volume 3, Issue 1 (March 2016) Vet. Sci., Volume 3, Issue 2 (June 2016)

Full text are available free of charge.

Table of Contents:

Review: Canine Mammary Carcinomas: A Comparative Analysis of Altered Gene Expression

by Farruk M. Lutful Kabir, Carlos E. Alvarez and R. Curtis Bird

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 1; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010001

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/1

Review: Canine Histiocytic Malignancies—Challenges and Opportunities

by Katherine Kennedy, Rachael Thomas and Matthew Breen

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 2; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010002

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/2

Review: Understanding the Osteosarcoma Pathobiology: A Comparative Oncology Approach

by Jyotika Varshney, Milcah C. Scott, David A. Largaespada and Subbaya Subramanian

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 3; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010003

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/3

Review: Therapeutic Innovations: Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Cancer

by Nikolaos Dervisis and Shawna Klahn

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 4; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010004

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/4

Editorial: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Veterinary Sciences in 2015

by Veterinary Sciences Editorial Office

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 5; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010005

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/5

Article: An Alternative Vaccination Approach for The Prevention of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Subtype H5N1 in The Red River Delta, Vietnam —A Geospatial-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

by Chinh C. Tran, John F. Yanagida, Sumeet Saksena and Jefferson Fox

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 6; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010006

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/6

Review: Comparative Aspects of Canine Melanomaby Adriana Tomoko Nishiya, Cristina Oliveira Massoco, Claudia Ronca Felizzola, Eduardo Perlmann, Karen Batschinski, Marcello Vannucci Tedardi, Jéssica Soares Garcia, Priscila Pedra Mendonça, Tarso Felipe Teixeira and Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 7; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010007 http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/7

Review: Sentinel Animals in a One Health Approach to Harmful Cyanobacterial and Algal Blooms

by Lorraine C. Backer and Melissa Miller

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(2), 8; doi:10.3390/vetsci3020008

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/2/8

Article: Establishment and Characterization of New Canine and Feline Osteosarcoma Primary Cell Lines

by Florian R. L. Meyer and Ingrid Walter

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(2), 9; doi:10.3390/vetsci3020009

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/2/9

Article: Sequence Instability in the Proviral Long Terminal Repeat and gag Regions from Peripheral Blood and Tissue-Derived Leukocytes of FIV-Infected Cats during the Late Asymptomatic Phase

by Christina D. Eckstrand, Chadwick Hillman and Brian G. Murphy

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(2), 10; doi:10.3390/vetsci3020010

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/2/10

Review: The Comparative Diagnostic Features of Canine and Human Lymphoma

by Davis M. Seelig, Anne C. Avery, E. J. Ehrhart and Michael A. Linden

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(2), 11; doi:10.3390/vetsci3020011

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/2/11

Review: Travelling between Two Worlds: Complement as a Gatekeeper for an Expanded Host Range of Lyme Disease Spirochetes

by Peter Kraiczy

Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(2), 12; doi:10.3390/vetsci3020012

http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/2/12

Provided to the One Health Initiative website June 24, 2016 by:

Margie Ma

Managing Editor

Veterinary Sciences

U.S. One Health Commission Sponsors Important One Health Webinar – Wednesdays, July 6, 2016 and July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT

Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2)

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/index.cfm/37526/78597/webinar_one_health_and_the_politics_of_antibiotic_resistance_part_1_of_2

07/06/2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

EDT

Title

One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2)

Overview: 
The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria has created a crisis in medicine and veterinary medicine. The use of antibiotics as growth promoting agents in livestock has been a highly political issue. Europe approved avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic, in the 1970’s. Its widespread use led to the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). In contrast, the US has requested that its livestock producers voluntarily stop using antibiotic growth promoting agents. Using a One Health approach by integrating the perspectives of medicine/public health and veterinary medicine/agriculture, this presentation briefly compares and contrasts the EU versus the US experience regarding antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and livestock production. 

Learning Objectives: 
1. Understand the history behind low dose antibiotic use in agriculture. 
2. Understand how the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) drove public policy in Europe. 
3. Understand the different policy approaches in Europe and the U.S. regarding avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic used extensively in pork production, and how they impacted VRE epidemiology. 
4. Understand how genomics can play a crucial role in antimicrobial resistance surveillance. 

Speaker: 
Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP 
Research Scholar 
Program on Science and Global Security 
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 
Princeton University 

Co-Founder, One Health Initiative, http://www.onehealthinitiative.com  

Columnist, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org  

 Part 2 of this webinar series, "Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment", will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT. Click here for more information and to register. 

 Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP https://goo.gl/ak4f6T

SerPIE - One Health Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) – June 19-20, 2016

Huntsville, Alabama (USA)

SEE: http://www.aces.edu/urban/forestry/SerPIE/OneHealth/index.php

The Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Urban Affairs & New Nontraditional Programs Unit at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU) and its partners cordially invite you to participate in the SerPIE - One Health Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) to be held June 19-20, 2016, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama.

The One Health Conference is an interdisciplinary conference that brings experts together in the areas of human, animal, and environmental health to discuss current research and Extension activities being undertaken to minimize societal and environmental impacts of PPCPs. It will offer an array of dynamic keynote speakers, presentations, exhibits, and opportunities to discuss current PPCP issues.

This Conference is being hosted in partnership with the AAMU Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics; Tennessee State University;  Kentucky State University; the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG); University of Illinois Extension; and the 1890 Universities Water Center.

WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING EXHIBITORS AND SPONSORS FOR THE EVENT.  FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO THE LINK PROVIDED BELOW TO CONNECT TO THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE.

http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Last%20One%20Health%20Brochure.pdf

Information provided by: 

KARNITA GARNER, PHD,  Conference Co-Coordinator, Room 234,Dawson Building, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL 35762 (USA), 256-372-8331 (O); 256-612-4169 (C ); 256-372-5840 (F); kfg0003@aces.edu

 PAUL OKWEYE, PHD, Conference Co-Coordinator, Room 407 Carter Hall, Dept. of Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, Alabama A&M University (USA), Normal, AL 35762; 256-372-4931 (O); paul.okweye@aamu.edu; pokweye@yahoo.com