The “One Health Initiativeexternal link” launched at the beginning of the 2000s underlines that all living beings live together and that our health is ...
"swissinfo.ch: The world is facing a major challenge with the rapid spread of this new coronavirus from China. How are new viruses changing the situation?
Dr Gilles Poumerolexternal link is an international public health specialist. He worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) fexternal linkor 30 years in various capacities at country, regional, and global level. He has extensive experience in the Caribbean, in Asia, in the Pacific, and in Africa on the epidemiology and control of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis. In the past 10 years he was in charge of International Travel and Health (ITH) and the revised International Health Regulations (IHR). He is presently consultant for IHR and Global Health Security trainings at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Gilles Poumerol: Over 60% of emerging viral infections in humans come from animals. The “One Health Initiativeexternal link” launched at the beginning of the 2000s underlines that all living beings live together and that our health is highly interdependent.
Yet these transmissions of viruses from animals to humans are taking on major proportions. The phenomenon is linked to the way societies evolve and to the increase in the world population, which slowly eats away at the territory of wild ecological systems. ..."
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned on Tuesday that people’s lives are going to have to change as the nation deals with the coronavirus, which originated in China, and that people need to prepare now if that haven’t already.”
“Fauci pointed to the CDC website[https://www.cdc.gov/]on the coronavirus as the place to go for information on how to stay safe from being infected from the virus.”
Postponement message RE: Updated Status for A One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance: Confronting the Resistome in Humans, Animals, and the Environment - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Important postponement message:
Updated Status for A One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance: Confronting the Resistome in Humans, Animals, and the Environment. Please make a note of it on your calendar. Additional details are below:
After careful consideration, the NIH and NIAID has made the difficult decision to postpone the One HealthApproach to Antimicrobial Resistance meetinghttp://www.cvent.com/d/3hqrmjscheduled in Rockville MD next week. After review of the public health data about the coronavirus and its impact on travel , it was determined that it would be an unacceptable risk to hold the conference and related activities at this time. Instead, this meeting is postponed until July 1 and 2, 2020.
We regret having to make this decision but determined we must prioritize the health and safety of our conference attendees. This news comes as many other postponements and cancellations of events due to the coronavirus.
We recognize that the new data, exchange of information, and opportunities for collaboration offered by this conference are highly valued by the One Health community. Information on the rescheduled program will be sent by email once it is available. In the meantime, registrants should note the following:
Abstracts that were scheduled to be presented as posters or short talks at the conference will not be published. Abstract authors are encouraged to submit an updated abstract once the rescheduled conference has been confirmed and abstract submission opens.
Registrants who have questions can contact Dr. Parker at tina.parker@nih.gov
Frequent Media Expert Physician/Public Health/U.S. Government Spokesperson for Coronavirus Epidemic (potential Pandemic) Threat Status in World Supports a One Health Approach [March 1, 2020 repeat] - Monday, March 09, 2020
Frequent Media Expert Physician/Public Health/U.S. Government Spokesperson for Coronavirus Epidemic (potential Pandemic) Threat Status in World Supports a One Health Approach
“….We have long embraced a one-health paradigm at NIAID, especially in the realm of emerging and re-emerging diseases, most of which are zoonoses and must be studied in the context of the ecosystems humans share with microbes, non-human hosts, vectors, reservoirs and other actors. Many of the research efforts about which I speak and write almost daily fall under the one health rubric…” https://goo.gl/nKVbFF
(KOIN) — Rep. Kurt Schrader, one of only 2 veterinarians in the US Congress, is calling for a “one-health program” that would streamline the flow of ...
The idea would include medical and health professionals, veterinarians, public health officials and doctors “all singing from the same hymnal. We don’t want the CDC coming in with one idea and Health & Human Services with another. So ‘one health’ would help with all that and we’re pushing that legislation right now.”
Prepared by Thomas P. Monath, MD, One Health Initiative team Co-Founder
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 - Thomas M. Yuill, PhD - Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD - Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD
COVID-19: If it Turns into a Global Pandemic - Monday, March 02, 2020
*One Health Initiative team website editor’s note:This piece helps reinforce the critical economic usefulness for engaging a One Health approach universally.
Frequent Media Expert Physician/Public Health/U.S. Government Spokesperson for Coronavirus Epidemic (potential Pandemic) Threat Status in World Supports a One Health Approach - Anthony S. Fauci, MD - Sunday, March 01, 2020
Frequent Media Expert Physician/Public Health/U.S. Government Spokesperson for Coronavirus Epidemic (potential Pandemic) Threat Status in World Supports a One Health Approach
“….We have long embraced a one-health paradigm at NIAID, especially in the realm of emerging and re-emerging diseases, most of which are zoonoses and must be studied in the context of the ecosystems humans share with microbes, non-human hosts, vectors, reservoirs and other actors. Many of the research efforts about which I speak and write almost daily fall under the one health rubric…” https://goo.gl/nKVbFF
How to Prepare for the Coronavirus - "A One Health approach" - Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
How to Prepare for the Coronavirus - "A One Health approach" - Wednesday, February 26, 2020
How to Prepare for the Coronavirus
REPEAT “Wash your hands. Keep a good supply of essential medicines. Get a flu shot. Experts offer practical tips on how to get ready for a possible outbreak.”
GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH...Big Picture:REPEAT“One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”What is One Health: ““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.”
REPEAT Some current and past global public health experts who support/advocate – supported/advocated for a “One Health” approach:
Frequent Media Expert Physician/Public Health Spokesperson for Coronavirus Epidemic (potential Pandemic) Threat Status in World Supports a One Health Approach
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
CBS News February 16, 2020, 11:25 AM Transcript: Dr. Anthony Fauci on "Face the Nation," February 16, 2020
“….We have long embraced a one-health paradigm at NIAID, especially in the realm of emerging and re-emerging diseases, most of which are zoonoses and must be studied in the context of the ecosystems humans share with microbes, non-human hosts, vectors, reservoirs and other actors. Many of the research efforts about which I speak and write almost daily fall under the one health rubric…” https://goo.gl/nKVbFF
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
“...we highlight One Health in the book as a critical element of our necessary public health priorities. In fact, I make the incorporation of a One Health approach as a point in our crisis agenda. Hopefully we can continue to advance this very important priority.”
D.A.Henderson, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Resident Scholar, Center for Biosecurity, U. of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor. Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pier IV Building, Suite 210, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
April 22, 2007 Dr. D. A. Henderson, legendary leader of the worldwide smallpox eradication program.
I thank you for your email and congratulate you and your colleagues in promoting the "One Medicine" concept. It is an initiative that is long overdue but, at the same time, I don't personally identify dramatic solutions that are apt to change the landscape in the short term. I would note that when one has had the good fortune to have enjoyed the tutelage of Jim Steele during my tenure at CDC and periodically ever since, as a friend, the one medicine concept becomes well engrained. Indeed, when I came to Hopkins as Dean in 1977, I cast about to determine how we might link up with a veterinary school for research and educational purposes. Unfortunately, geography was simply too great a hurdle to overcome.
Bottom line: I would be more than happy to do whatever I could in support of your efforts.
James H. Steele, DVM, MPH
The biography, "One Man, One Medicine, One Health: The James H. Steele Story," covers more than nine decades of Steele's life from his childhood in Chicago to his retirement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to his work at The University of Texas School of Public Health.https://www.newswise.com//articles/biography-of-zoonotic-disease-pioneer-james-steele-released
One Health Lecture: [Physician] Dr. Peter Rabinowitz - Monday, February 24, 2020
Peter Rabinowitz is professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, and director of the UW Center for One Health Research. The center explores linkages between human, animal and environmental health in a "One Health" paradigm, including: zoonotic infectious diseases at the human-animal interface, animals as "sentinels" of environmental health hazards and clinical collaboration between human health care providers and veterinarians in a species-spanning approach.
He has been a visiting scientist at the Global Influenza Program of the World Health Organization and in the Animal Health Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization where he researched zoonotic diseases. He is the co-editor, with Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH, of the clinical manual Human Animal Medicine: Zoonoses, Toxicants and Shared Health Risks. Dr. Rabinowitz received his MD degree from the University of Washington and his MPH from Yale University.
