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| Revisiting: World Veterinary Association/World Medical Association Global Conference on One Health - Saturday, August 15, 2015 |
Revisiting: World Veterinary Association/World Medical Association Global Conference on One Health
The WVA/WMA Global Conference on One Health which was held in Madrid, Spain on May 21-22, 2015, brought together 330 delegates from 40 countries around the world to discuss the One Health Concept.
Introduction
On 21 and 22nd of May 2015, The World Veterinary Association (WVA) and the World Medical Association (WMA) in collaboration with the Spanish Medical (SMA) and Veterinary (SVA) Associations organized the Global Conference on 'One Health' Concept with the theme: Drivers towards One Health - “Strengthening collaboration between Physicians and Veterinarians”. ...
Please see complete report at: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=World+Veterinary+Association%2FWorld+Medical+Association+Global+Conference+on+One+Health+%96+Report+and+Presentations
Also note international SPEAKERS Abstracts and Biographies at:
http://www.worldvet.org/uploads/docs/speakers_abstract_book.pdf
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| Upcoming Continuing Education One Health Illinois Summit (USA) - August 19, 2015 - Sunday, August 09, 2015 |
Upcoming Continuing Education One Health Illinois Summit (USA) - August 19, 2015
3505 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building, MC-002
2001 S. Lincoln Ave.
Urbana, IL 61802
P: (217) 333-2907
F: (217) 333-4628
ope@vetmed.illinois.edu
Allan J. Paul, DVM, MS Associate Dean for Public Engagement - http://vetmed.illinois.edu/veo/bio_paul.html
“The purpose of the third One Health Illinois Summit is to update, through a series of presentations and discussion, the current health of Illinois human, animal and ecosystem communities; efforts to develop an integrated health surveillance system; current and recent One Health research projects; trends regarding zoonotic and infectious diseases; and current and potential health policy initiatives. As with the original One Health Summit in 2010, presentations will be summarized and an action plan for identified issues will be developed.”
Please see more at: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/vet-resources/continuing-education/one-health-illinois-summit/#sthash.nDhLkGmo.dpuf
Also, see Center for One Health Illinois; JA Herrmann DVM, MPH, DACT Director, DVM-MPH Program Clinical Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine1008 West Hazelwood Drive, MC 004 Urbana, IL 61802P: 217-265-6585: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/college-organization/center-for-one-health-illinois/#sthash.k92ygMRY.dpuf
Note: Dr. Herrmann is a longstanding One Health supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.
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| The Age of Contagion - Monday, August 03, 2015 |
Huffington Post – July 25, 2015
The Age of Contagion
“... This moment in time demands that scientists and health-care workers move beyond the boundaries of their professions and adopt a One Health mindset to match the scale and complexity of human and animal health needs. Nothing less is acceptable. Our world hangs in the balance as we race to come to grips with our new microbial mysteries in labs around the world.”
By *Lonnie J. King, DVM, MS, MPA - Former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) new National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED) and current Dean and Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University (USA)
“Grim predictions of infectious diseases have been with us as long as recorded history. As author David Quammen remarked in a recent New York Times editorial, our once sunny optimism that modern miracle antibodies would stop modern-day plagues has proven to be mistaken.
Scary new viral diseases such as MERS, SARS, Monkeypox and the West Nile virus are merely the latest examples of zoonotic diseases -- those passed from animals to humans -- which are now responsible for almost 75 percent of new human infectious diseases over the last quarter century. ...
... This moment in time demands that scientists and health-care workers move beyond the boundaries of their professions and adopt a One Health mindset to match the scale and complexity of human and animal health needs. Nothing less is acceptable. Our world hangs in the balance as we race to come to grips with our new microbial mysteries in labs around the world.”
Please read complete blog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-lonnie-j-king/the-age-of-contagion_b_4226828.html
*Dr. King, a veterinarian, is a longstanding, extraordinary international One Health leader and member of the One Health Initiative Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php. |
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| One Health Commission (USA) Offers Public Service “One Health” Announcement Audios, April 2015 - Friday, July 31, 2015 |
One Health Commission (USA) Offers Public Service “One Health” Announcement Audios, April 2015
Please listen to: English Version and Spanish Version
According to Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission (OHC) https://www.onehealthcommission.org/, these are suitable for all amenable radio stations in the U.S. (or elsewhere) and any other interested health oriented organizations or university institutions willing to use them. They are free of charge. Dr. Stroud encourages widespread distribution and utilization of these audio recordings in order to help spread the One Health message to listening audiences. Stroud said, “The One Health public service announcement (psa) that the OHC Communications Team spearheaded and that you [OHI team] consulted on is now posted online. Please indicate to the world that it is available, free to download and use for educational purposes.”
Questions may be directed to the Executive Director at cstroud@onehealthcommission.org or Peter J. Costa, MPH, MCHES, Associate Executive Director pcosta@onehealthdcommission.org.
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| University of Florida (USA)- One Health Center of Excellence for Research and Training Emerging Pathogens Institute - Tuesday, July 28, 2015 |
University of Florida (USA)- One Health Center of Excellence for Research and Training Emerging Pathogens Institute
http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/
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| International One Health Platform Project Evolving - Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
A potentially valuable international One Health project...
International One Health Platform Project Evolving
A nascent international “One Health Platform” project http://onehealthplatform.com/engine/ has been developing with various hopeful features aimed at promoting and implementing the One Health concept. It currently has several prominent One Health supporting partners http://onehealthplatform.com/engine/?page_id=76.
Since 2011, three International One Health Congresses http://onehealthplatform.com/engine/?page_id=222 have been organized on a biennial basis. The fourth edition will be held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2016. More information is available at http://oheh2016.org
In order to ensure the continuity of the International One Health Congresses, the One Health Platform will be responsible for organising subsequent editions. We are currently seeking expressions of interest in hosting the Fifth International One Health Congress. Download the Call for Expression of Interest now.
The World Veterinary Association/World Medical Association Global Conference on One Health which was held in Madrid, Spain on 21-22 May 2015, brought together 330 delegates from 40 countries around the world to discuss the One Health Concept. Download the conference report and presentations here.
In addition, this is associated with a new open-access journal - One Health http://www.journals.elsevier.com/one-health/ (the official journal of the One Health Foundation). Also recognized and included in the One Health Initiative website’s Homepage sidebar tabs as:
Editor’s Note: This is a hopeful and potentially valuable step forward for the international One Health movement as it continues to remain “One Health-One Medicine” all inclusive in the spirit of the One Health Umbrella graphic http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/OneHealth2, operates ecumenically worldwide, and persists in expanding altruistic public affairs vistas.
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| Extraordinary One Health Leader Awarded Gold Headed Cane (USA): an internationally recognized physician virologist and vaccine developer - July 13, 2015 - Monday, July 13, 2015 |
Left to right: Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD, President, American Veterinary Epidemiology Society, Thomas P. Monath, MD,
and Georgette D. Wilson, DVM, Director, Scientific & Medical Affairs, The Hartz Mountain Corporation
Extraordinary One Health Leader Awarded Gold Headed Cane (USA):
an internationally recognized physician virologist and vaccine developer
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Dr. Thomas P. Monath [MD, FACP, FASTMH] received the prestigious American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) Gold Headed Cane Award at the July 10-14, 2015 annual American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) convention in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) on July 13 at a breakfast ceremony. The AVMA, founded in 1863, is one of the oldest and largest veterinary medical organizations in the world, with more than 86,500 member veterinarians worldwide engaged in a wide variety of professional activities and dedicated to the art and science of veterinary medicine.
An internationally renowned physician virologist and dexterous vaccinologist pioneer, Dr. Monath was a co-founder of the *One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team (OHI team); the originator and sponsor of the highly successful One Health Initiative website www.onehealthinitiative.com; and a former member of the landmark AVMA’s One Health Initiative Task Force (OHITF) and its current successor, the One Health Commission www.onehealthcommission.org.
Monath’s One Health colleagues of the OHI team, comprised of two physicians, two veterinarians and a PhD health-research scientist, are the managers and creators of the One Health Initiative website. Primarily due to his inimitable visionary leadership, the highly successful “One Health Initiative” website——frequently dubbed "the international clearing house for significant One Health information" and by some the "New York Times of One Health."——came to fruition on October 1, 2008. Without fanfare, Monath altruistically helped initiate and support implementation of numerous other notable One Health projects (his “brainchildren”) by the OHI team over the past eight (8) years: these are included among others listed in http://www.solutions-site.org/node/875 and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One%20Health%20Initiative%20Team%20%20Proactive%20Projects,%202009%20-%202013.%20August%2026%202013pdf.pdf.
Indeed, Monath has had a lifetime of adopting and practicing the One Health approach during his illustrious medical career. See “One Medicine/One Health”: Personal Reflections of a True Believer http://www.pitt.edu/~super4/33011-34001/33431.pdf and http://ilarjournal.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/3/193.full.pdf+html.
Monath’s broad spectrum One Health/public health endeavors include a benchmark 2013 Vaccine journal publication “Vaccines against diseases transmitted from animals to humans: A one health paradigm”. This review focuses on the immunization of animals as a means of preventing human diseases (zoonoses) like rabies. …”In simple terms, the idea is to develop vaccines that protect domestic animals and wildlife thereby establishing effective barriers against human infections. Developing animal vaccines are less expensive and are less strictly regulated than are those for humans. Hopefully a common sense One Health approach can go forward”: See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Thomas%20P.%20Monath,%20MD%20Sept%202013%20One%20Health%20Vaccine%20Article.pdf and Monath’s pertinent past and current enterprising work related to Ebola vaccine development activities http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/11/14/683448/10108229/en/NewLink-Genetics-Appoints-Thomas-P-Monath-M-D-to-the-Position-of-Chief-Scientific-and-Chief-Operations-Officer-of-BioProtection-Systems-Corporation-Its-Infectious-Disease-Division.html and http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/Pages/PREVAIL.aspx.
This AVES Gold Headed Cane award is in recognition of Monath’s heretofore unheralded monumental achievements in the advancement of One Health—maximizing the collaboration of human, animal and environmental professionals to achieve optimal health for humans. As previously noted, he has been and continues to be a paragon in development of critical vaccines like smallpox (that replaced the previous vaccine in the U.S. national stockpile), Ebola (mentioned above), yellow fever and others for many years and has a distinguished global reputation. See Biography: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Tom%20Monath%20Biography%20January2014%20(2015%20update).pdf.
Inaugurated by AVES in 1964, the Gold Headed Cane Award was approved as an AVMA award by the Executive Board in 1996 and is sponsored by Hartz Mountain Corporation, Secaucus, NJ (USA). The award recognizes the achievement of an individual concerned with animal health who has significantly advanced human health through the practice of veterinary epidemiology and public health. Dr. James H. Steele [DVM, MPH], founder of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) veterinary division in 1947 http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=james+h.+steele%2C+dvm%2C+mph, established the award to recognize the outstanding contributions of veterinarian, physician and scientist, Dr. Karl F. Meyer [DVM, PhD, MD (Hon.)]. Originally named the K.F. Meyer Gold Headed Cane Award, it was renamed the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Headed Cane Award in 1985 to recognize Steele for his outstanding contributions to epidemiology and veterinary public health. Today, this award has gained in relevance and stature in concert with AVMA's and many other health oriented organizations' endorsement and development of the philosophy of One Health throughout the world.
Note: In addition to Dr. Monath, Isabel de Kantor, PhD http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/CV%20Dr%20%20Isabel%20N%20%20Kantor%202015.pdf was recognized as one of this year’s recipients of the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold-Headed Cane Award.
Honorary AVES Diplomas were awarded to: Rene Carlson, DVM; Bruce Akey, DVM; Gopal Reddy, BVSc, MS, PhD; Theodore Cohn, DVM; Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD; Jacqueline Smith, PhD; Charles Muscoplat, PhD; Timothy Stevenson, DVM, PhD; and Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD.
* One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Jack Woodall, PhD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH
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| One Health Newsletter - Volume 8, Issue 2 - Published July 3, 2015 (USA) - Wednesday, July 08, 2015 |
Notice:
One Health Newsletter - Volume 8, Issue 2 - Published July 3, 2015 (USA)
SEE: http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/misc/egh/One%20Health%20Newsletter/OHNL_Volume_8_Issue2.pdf
An outstanding internationally distributed “One Health” publication product of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida (USA) http://epi.ufl.edu
and/or http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/news/one-health-newsletter/
This quarterly newsletter is dedicated to enhancing the integration of animal, human, and environmental health for the benefit of all by demonstrating One Health in practice.
The One Health Newsletter is a collaborative effort by a diverse group of scientists and health professionals committed to promoting One Health.
Please email co-editors with questions, comments, or suggestions for articles, upcoming events, or publications to share relevant to One Health:
Mary Leigh Merrill, MHS
PhD Student // Co-Editor, One Health Newsletter
Department of Environmental & Global Health
College of Public Health & Health Professions
University of Florida
Cell: (662) 871-8335 // Email: mleighmorris@ufl.edu
Website: www.epi.ufl.edu/onehealth
Sarah K. White, MPH
PhD Student // Graduate Research Assistant // One Health Newsletter Co-Editor
College of Public Health and Health Professions // Department of Environmental and Global Health
Email: sek0005@ufl.edu
One Health article submissions and participants are welcomed from all nations. Indeed, readers from over 150 countries are known to access this Newsletter each month.
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| PHYSICIANS’ World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) issues One Health Letter of Support – July 2, 2015 - Friday, July 03, 2015 |
PHYSICIANS’ World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) issues One Health Letter of Support – July 2, 2015
2nd July 2015
Laura H Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP
Bruce Kaplan, DVM
Thomas P. Monath, MD
One Health Initiative
kkm@onehealthinitiative.com
Dear colleagues
Please find a letter of support, to the OneHealth Initiative, from WONCA - the World Organization of Family Doctors [physicians].
SEE: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/OneHealth%20030715.pdf
With best regards
Dr. Garth Manning
http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/AboutWonca/CEOsMessage.aspx
Chief Executive Officer
World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)
http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/
12A-05 Chartered Square Building
152 North Sathon Road
Silom, Bangrak
Bangkok 10500
THAILANDEmail: ceo@wonca.net |
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| One Health Community Addresses Advocacy Letter to the White House (USA) - June 30, 2015 - Thursday, July 02, 2015 |
One Health Community Addresses Advocacy Letter to the White House (USA)
Dated: June 30, 2015
“...On behalf of the community of One Health advocates and stakeholders, the One Health Commission, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and the signatories below, writes to urge creation of One Health platforms in both the United States (U.S) and the United Nations (U.N). ... Thank you, in advance, for your attention to our urgent call. One Health approaches truly are a ‘Ray of Hope’ for the future health of our planet and all its living creatures.”
Respectfully,
The One Health Commission and the greater community of One Health Advocates
Please read complete letter https://www.onehealthcommission.org/documents/filelibrary/homepage_images/7115_OHC_Letter_to_White_Houseno_em_69EE814936C70.pdf |
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