Ravenswood Media Newsletter Publishes One Health Article

The June 2014 - Issue #16 of the Ravenswood Media Newsletter has published a One Health article.  Please see http://www.ravenswoodmedia.com/a/newsletter/newsletter2014/rmnewsletter.html or http://www.ravenswoodmedia.com/a/newsletter/newsletter2014/rmnewsletter.html#onehealth.

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One Health Undergraduate Certificate Program Launched at Fontbonne University, St Louis, Missouri (USA)

Fontbonne University, in partnership with the Institute for Conservation Medicine at the St. Louis Zoological Park, is launching an undergraduate certificate program in One Health.  The interdisciplinary approach that One Health takes toward the increasingly complex problems facing all health is perfectly suited for upper-division science students who are interested in having an impact in the world.  Information about the certificate program can be found at www.fontbonne.edu/onehealth.

“One Health is a new and rapidly growing field combining human medicine, veterinary medicine and environmental conservation to study the interconnectedness of the world in which we live. As human and animal populations coexist in closer environments, the health and well-being of all become intertwined. Diseases like avian flu and epidemics like colony collapse in bee populations impact both groups. Through Fontbonne’s new certificate, One Health students will take a close look at the intersection of disease transmission, climate change, public health, animal health and more as they explore this increasingly critical field.”

Course requirements: http://www.fontbonne.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/biologicalphysicalsciences/one-health-certificate/course-requirements/

Provided to One Health Initiative website May 27, 2014 by:

Elizabeth Rayhel, PhD

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Department of Biological and Physical Sciences

Fontbonne University

St Louis, Missouri (USA)

Dr. Rayhel is a One Health Supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Kansas State Medical Society Adopts One Health Resolution – 4^th in the nation (USA)

One Health Post Graduate Diploma and Post Graduate Certificate Courses Offered at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India

"Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University now offers a Post Graduate Diploma in One health through technology enabled distance learning programmes in One Health. Notification for the course is available at the KVASU website www.kvasu.ac.in. (http://application.kvasu.ac.in/). The course is offered by the Centre for One Health Education, Advocacy, Research and Training (COHEART), a unique and pioneer educational attempt by the University on implementing the present day concept of One Health for the benefit of humanity and other living organisms.

The 35-credit hour Post Graduate Diploma programme is designed to provide One Health-specific exposure to human medicine, veterinary and environmental health professionals and students. The programme is designed to provide in depth training on One Health in a modular flexible format, ideal for health related professionals who wish to achieve a world- class award while maintaining busy professional and personal commitments. This course provides an overview of strategies for promoting health for all. Project work in 2^nd semester enables students to have an exposure of One Health application Post Graduate Certificate in One health.

The University is also offering a Post Graduate Certificate in One Health programme. The purpose of the PG certificate course in One Health is the establishment for closer professional interactions, collaborations, and educational opportunities across the various health professionals. Students will gain the capacity and necessary expertise to work as a multidisciplinary team and to enhance their career opportunities in health related fields. The flexible online learning environment enables the student to learn at the times and locations that suit him/her the best. This course introduces One Health, a concept embedded in the philosophy of “co-existence” in which every other living being (and non-living beings like air, water and soil) influences the health of the fellow being. The exploration of interconnectedness helps us to realize various factors and conditions of healthy existence.  For details of this course please visit www.coheart.ac.in or www.kvasu.ac.in.  Feel free to mail us at onehealthindia@gmail.com."

Provided to One Health Initiative website May 17, 2014 by:

Dr. PREJIT, MVSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Veterinary Public Health

College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

Pookode, Wayanad,
Kerala, INDIA 673 576

Mobile: +91-9497679630

Dr. Prejit is a longstanding prominent One Health Supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

“The business case for One Health”

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 81(2), 6 pages – Open Access

This article outlines a pathway to develop the business case for One Health. It describes the origin and development of One Health and then identifies five potential areas where One Health can add value and reduce costs. These are: (1) sharing health resources between the medical and veterinary sectors; (2) controlling zoonoses in animal reservoirs; (3) early detection and response to emerging diseases; (4) prevention of pandemics; and (5) generating insights and adding value to health research and development. Examples are given for each category along with preliminary estimates of the potential savings from adopting the One Health approach. The literature reviewed suggests that one dollar invested in One Health can generate five dollars worth of benefits and a global investment of US$25 billion over 10 years could generate benefits worth at least US$125 billion. Conservation implications: the time has come to make the bigger case for massive investment in One Health in order to transform the management of neglected and emerging zoonoses and to save the lives of millions of people and hundreds of millions of animals whose production supports and nourishes billions of impoverished people per annum.

Please read full article at http://www.ojvr.org/index.php/ojvr/article/view/725/993

American Society of Microbiology (ASM) [One Health] NEWS – Pages 173, 174, 175

Please read complete NEWS item at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/MicrobewithOH.pdf (See pages 173, 174, & 175)

Microbe—Volume 9, Number 4, 2014 See Pages 173, 174 & 175: Permission to post on One Health Initiative website graciously granted by Patrick Lacey, Managing Editor.

Branches: ASM Activities at the Local Level... One Health at the Northeast Branch, One Health 2013—Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD, President, Northeast Branch.

“This month I have the pleasure of sharing with you a project that was undertaken last year by the Northeast Branch of ASM—One Health 2013. This activity supports one of the core values that Branches continuously offer their membership: cutting-edge programming that rivals programming available at larger meetings. I hope that once you fýnish learning of this program and its success you too will appreciate the value that Branches offer and consider attending your next Branch event.”

“One Health is “a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment” (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com). One Health promotes the idea that the health of people, animals, and the environment are inextricably linked. While the One Health concept is widely supported, operationalizing it in professional practice among health professionals has been challenging. In recognition of these diffýculties, the Northeast Branch of ASM hosted two forums in 2013, one in Worcester, Mass., and the other in Boston, to engage undergraduates, graduate students, and health professions students in a discussion of One Health, assess their enthusiasm for the concept, and solicit their ideas for promoting it. The forums, funded in part by the ASM Branch National Funding program, were organized by the Northeast Branch in association with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine of Tufts University; and the MCPHS (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) University.  During each forum, distinguished multidisciplinary panels of experts provided their perspectives on One Health, and attendees then engaged in discussions, offered suggestions, and afterwards evaluated the program. …”

 See Photo with caption below, Page 174 • Microbe—Volume 9, Number 4, 2014

 One Health Panel, 30 September 2013. Back row (l-r): Alfred DeMaria, Jr., Department of Public Health; Michael McGuill, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University; Michael Pentella, Department of Public Health; *Larry Madoff, Department of Public Health. Front row (l-r): Mary Montgomery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital; Catherine Brown, Department of Public Health; Christine Rioux, Tufts University School of Medicine

Note: *Dr. Larry Madoff, a physician, is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate and serves on the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Provided by:

Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD

Medical Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease

State Epidemiologist

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute

305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

617-983-6550, Fax: 617-983-6925

Alfred.DeMaria@state.ma.us

Dr. Demaria, a physician, is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Important One Health oriented interview with an Outstanding University of Pennsylvania Dean…

Q&A with Joan Hendricks, VMD, PhD [USA]

Dr. Hendricks http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g293/p20944, a veterinarian, is a prominent longstanding One Health supporter/advocate/leader http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

“According to Joan Hendricks, dean of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, people go into veterinary medicine because of a couple reasons. They love animals, probably first and foremost. They also have a fascination with science and desire to understand how things work—whether it’s canine vision, equine orthopedics, or cell and molecular biology.

These medical professionals, Hendricks says, have the potential to change the world—perhaps because veterinarians are trained to innately understand how animal and human health is linked together, as well as to the world around them.

“Veterinarians do so much more than take care of your cat—not that we don’t love the cat and are very proud of the cat, the dog, the horse,” Hendricks explains. “Our training and what we want to do is to make the world better for all living things. It folds in everything—biomedical science to make health better not just for people but for animals, as well. We may be studying cancer in a cat or how to get rid of digestive problems in a cow. But we’re also doing it in a way that we know will benefit people, and we may be doing it with MDs or other expert colleagues.” …”

“…You talk a lot about the One Health concept. What is that, exactly?
A: The school has always had a sense that our job was to advance knowledge to benefit domestic animals and people together. For a long time, we thought of it as treating diseases, so we talked about one medicine, many species. The One Health concept is a little bit more wholistic and progressive, and says that the health of people and animals are interdependent, and interdependent with the wild environment, as well. Veterinary medicine is the only multispecies medical specialty. All veterinarians have a particular connection with the medical school. … It’s a grounding for everything from doing a good job taking care of the animals to also being able to identify ways that they will be healthier, so it’s genetics, nutrition, or the way they’re taking care of training and how the people connect to them, as well. And if you’re talking about animals that serve people by doing some kind of work like the working dogs, or producing food and fiber, you want the animals really healthy because that’s the best outcome for everybody. A component of One Health is linked to food production. It’s a natural thing for a veterinarian to be linked to animal source food because you want the animals healthy. There’s a mission for veterinarians that is in our oath that we serve human society and animals. … It’s really about resolving, making sure that both sides of the equation do well and solving the problems that come about when the interests are in conflict. Connecting to animals is better for people than not. …”

Please read complete article interview at http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2014-05-08/interviews/qa-joan-hendricks

A significant One Health translational medicine research approach…Regrowth of injured muscles in mice and humans has been demonstrated by a multidisciplinary research team.

“An Acellular Biologic Scaffold Promotes Skeletal Muscle Formation in Mice and Humans with Volumetric Muscle Loss”

Citation: B. M. Sicari, J. P. Rubin, C. L. Dearth, M. T. Wolf, F. Ambrosio, M. Boninger, N. J. Turner, D. J. Weber, T. W. Simpson, A. Wyse, E. H. Brown, J. L. Dziki, L. E. Fisher, S. Brown, S. F. Badylak, An Acellular Biologic Scaffold Promotes Skeletal Muscle Formation in Mice and Humans with Volumetric Muscle Loss. Sci. Transl. Med. 6, 234ra58 (2014).

Abstract

“Biologic scaffolds composed of naturally occurring extracellular matrix (ECM) can provide a microenvironmental niche that alters the default healing response toward a constructive and functional outcome. The present study showed similarities in the remodeling characteristics of xenogeneic ECM scaffolds when used as a surgical treatment for volumetric muscle loss in both a preclinical rodent model and five male patients. Porcine urinary bladder ECM scaffold implantation was associated with perivascular stem cell mobilization and accumulation within the site of injury, and de novo formation of skeletal muscle cells. The ECM-mediated constructive remodeling was associated with stimulus-responsive skeletal muscle in rodents and functional improvement in three of the five human patients. …”

Please read abstract and/or entire article at:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/234/234ra58?ijkey=7AI.wd5lXWHFo&keytype=ref&siteid=scitransmed
Reprint: http://stm.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/6/234/234ra58?ijkey=7AI.wd5lXWHFo&keytype=ref&siteid=scitransmed
Full Text: http://stm.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/6/234/234ra58?ijkey=7AI.wd5lXWHFo&keytype=ref&siteid=scitransmed

A method for regenerating large amounts of muscle loss after injury using material from pig bladders has been developed by a multidisciplinary research team from the University of Pittsburgh, led by Stephen F. Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/badylak/ University of Pittsburgh Research Professor, Department of Surgery, Director of Tissue Engineering, McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.  Dr. Badylak has a veterinary medical and human medical educational background and is a longstanding supporter of the One Health concept http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Open access link with Expiration Date = 30 Jun 2014 graciously provided to the One Health Initiative website by:

 “This article is available for reading with full access through June 30, 2014 via referrer link, no fee, [on the One Health Initiative website].  The link will provide seamless access for the period mentioned and then revert to a regular hyperlink after that.  After that readers may use pay-per-view if they do not subscribe.  This paper becomes free with registration after 1 year from it’s publication, as does all our research content.”

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A new Promotional published in The Lancet…in need of revision!

Entitled “From public to planetary health: a manifesto”

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)60710-8.pdf

http://preview.smartfocusdigital.com/go.asp?/.2014.digitalmarketing.planetaryhealth.homepage/bELA001&utm_source=blank&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=

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In respectful opposition, the 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 (and others) refused a request to become signatories and submitted a Letter-to-the-Editor of The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com/ explaining why.  Please see below:

Published in The Lancet’s Correspondence: www.thelancet.com Vol 383 April 26, 2014—Page 1459

Planetary health(1) needs One Health. One Health is a concept that recognizes the links between human, animal, and environmental health. These factors must be incorporated and integrated before planetary health can be achieved.

The One Health concept promotes multidisciplinary collaborations between physicians, veterinarians, environmental specialists, and other health-related professions. Support for One Health has increased substantially and must be embraced and implemented globally.(2)

Regrettably, Richard Horton and colleagues’ manifesto for planetary health excludes One Health;(1) as such, it is incomplete and ineffectual. It does not adequately address the overwhelming environmental threats to the sustainability of human civilisation. Our planet is rapidly sickening because of anthropogenic causes, but planetary health for humanity is impossible without including animal, environmental, and ecosystem health.(3) About 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic; many emerge because of environmental destruction.(4)

We must recognise that planetary health equals human, animal, environmental, and ecosystem health.  Achieving planetary health requires implemention of the One Health concept globally.

We declare that we have no competing interests.

*Laura H Kahn, Bruce Kaplan, Thomas Monath, Jack Woodall, Lisa Conti

lkahn@princeton.edu

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Science and Global Security, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA (LHK);

Retired, Sarasota, FL, USA (BK);

PaxVax, Menlo Park, CA, USA (TM);

Retired, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (JW); and

One Health Initiative, Tallahassee, FL, USA (LC)

1 Horton R, Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Raeburn J, McKee M, Wall S. From public to planetary health: a manifesto. Lancet 2014; 383: 847.

2 Fisman DN, Laupland KB. The ‘One Health’ paradigm: time for infectious diseases clinicians to take note? Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2010; 21: 111–14.

3 Kahn LH. Protecting the environment in the Anthropocene. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dec 22, 2013. http://thebulletin.org/ protecting-environment-anthropocene (accessed April 9, 2014).

4 Robbins J. The ecology of disease. The New York Times. July 14, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/theecology-of-disease.html (accessed April 9, 2014).

Physician Editor of Missouri Medical Association Journal (USA) Joins One Health Initiative Team’s Honorary Advisory Board

The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. John C. Hagan http://www.discovervision.com/kansas-city/john-c-hagan-m-d.htm, a physician editor and ophthalmologist, has graciously accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on May 5, 2014.  The One Health Initiative Honorary Advisory Board was established in 2010 and has 33 distinguished members from within the U.S. and worldwide.  Dr. Hagan is the Editor of  Missouri Medicine: The Journal of the Missouri Medical Association and a prominent Kansas City, Missouri ophthalmologist, the founder of the Midwest Eye Institute of Kansas City, Inc.  Interestingly, among other career accomplishments, he also served as a consultant to the TV series CSI Miami (CBS), Bones (Fox) and Rizzoli & Isles (TNT) 2010-2013.

As editor of the Journal of the Missouri Medical Association, Dr. Hagan published a landmark One Medicine [now called “One Health” in early 21^st century international vernacular] issue http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One%20Medicine%20Book.pdf in May/June 2013.  This significant publication was subsequently recognized and praised by a representative of the One Health Initiative team in a letter-to-the-editor http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One_Health_Correspondence_JulyAugust2013_MoMed.pdf in the July/August 2013 issue.

Working with other One Health activist members of the Missouri State Medical Association, Dr. Hagan helped encourage the association to initiate and adopt a “One Health” resolution on April 6, 2014 whereby Missouri became the third state medical association in the United States to do so, following Florida (July 31, 2011) and Massachusetts (December 2011).  Prior to these events, the American Medical Association unanimously approved a One Health resolution http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/AMA%20Resolution%20530%20a-07-One%20Health-Final%206%2025%2007.pdf in June 2007 calling for increased collaboration between the human and veterinary medical communities.

Dr. Hagan is listed as a supporter/advocate on the One Health Initiative Supporter list http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.