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Implementing a One Health culture in undergraduate education to tackle current and future health ... - Saturday, February 08, 2020 |
Implementing a One Health culture in undergraduate education to tackle current and future health ...
... call on policy makers, academics and professionals to promote an interdisciplinary exchange under the One Health[1] approach in education.
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New “One Health Interest Group” on the scene ... - Wednesday, February 05, 2020 |
New “One Health Interest Group” on the scene ...
See CORE Group information at: https://coregroup.org/announcing-our-new-one-health-interest-group/
“Announcing Our New One Health Interest Group
February 3, 2020
We are pleased to announce the development of a new CORE Group Interest Group on One Health. One Health is a multisectoral, transdisciplinary approach that promotes the interconnections between the health of humans, animals, plants and the planet we share. Over 75% of novel infectious diseases are from animal sources, contributing 2.5 billion cases of human illness and 2.7 million deaths annually, mostly in developing countries. Given the increasing frequency and intensity of animal borne disease outbreaks, the global health community has taken up the call for a One Health approach to prevention, detection and response to outbreaks, as well as an examination of related modes of transmission within the environment. CORE Group’s One Health Interest Group supports coordination, communication, and collaboration for strengthened community engagement across human, animal and environment sectors before, during and after outbreaks.
Subscribe to the listserv: lists.coregroup.org/lists/subscribe/onehealth Email the group: onehealth@lists.coregroup.org ...”
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Coronavirus: Fear of a pandemic, or a pandemic of fear? [One Health approach essential!] - Saturday, February 01, 2020 |
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
"... International response to this coronavirus also demonstrates considerable improvement, with rapid information flow and reporting of cases by Chinese authorities. But governance challenges remain, along with a growing awareness of the importance of what’s known as a One Health approach to pandemic outbreaks.
A One Health strategy recognizes that the health of humans is intricately linked to that of animals and their environments. In practice, it draws upon experts from human, animal and environmental health sciences, along with those in the humanities and social sciences, to build a response infrastructure that emphasizes information-sharing and co-ordination of actions across multiple sectors. ...
... Public health, animal health, agriculture
Progress has also been made to integrate surveillance and governance at the global level across the three international agencies responsible for public health, animal health and agriculture.
But with no consensus yet on how to globally govern zoonotic outbreaks, there is still considerable room for improvements that build on One Health principles. ...
... Separating the impact that deeply integrated historic, political and economic factors has on zoonotic disease makes clear the importance of social sciences in a One Health approach.
All of this shows that any effective response to outbreaks such as 2019-nCoV requires a One Health response. Our nascent Canadian-based Global 1HN network, comprising a trans-disciplinary array of One Health expertise, is working closely with federal policy partners and other networks globally to use existing experience and to generate new knowledge in support of more effective governance of infectious disease risk. ... " |
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Seattle clinic treats people and pets together [a One Health clinic] - Friday, January 31, 2020 |
Seattle clinic treats people and pets together
Every other Wednesday, New Horizons hosts what's called a One Health Clinic, which brings together a veterinarian and veterinary students, a nurse ...
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Coronavirus Outbreak Could Impact Agriculture - Audio Interview Recording - Wednesday, January 29, 2020 |
An important One Health message...a One Health approach needed to combat Coronovirus outbreak:
Coronavirus Outbreak in China Could Impact Agriculture
January 27, 2020
by Southern Farm Network
Coronavirus Outbreak in China Could Impact Agriculture
An infectious disease researcher [Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Duke Medicine Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Global Health Institute, & Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Duke-NUS Medical School; Singapore Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases 8 College Road, Singapore 169857; and Duke Kunshan University, China, Professor, Global Health No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China] is warning that the deadly coronavirus outbreak could impact not only human health, but animal agriculture as well. Mike Davis reports.
Listen to: http://sfntoday.com/coronavirus-outbreak-in-china-could-impact-agriculture/
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Healthy Rangelands, Healthy Livestock and Healthy People: A Fully Integrated One Health Approach in Pastoral Ethiopia - Wednesday, January 29, 2020 |
"In recent years in the pastoral areas of developing countries, One Health is gaining increasing credibility and visibility as an approach that can combine interventions for both human and animals. However, relatively little attention has been given thus far to the environmental health component including of the resource base – rangelands. ..."
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China's Coronavirus: How Do We Stop Such Deadly Threats? U.S. News & World Report, January 27, 2020 - Tuesday, January 28, 2020 |
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U.S. News & World Report - January 27, 2020 |
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China's Coronavirus: How Do We Stop Such Deadly Threats?
SEE entire article at: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-01-27/commentary-chinas-coronavirus-how-do-we-stop-such-deadly-threats
Often, the best that public health officials can hope for it to slow down ... Often, such an interdisciplinary collaboration is termed the "One Health ...
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How do we fix this problem?
Many scientific and policy experts now recognize that humans and animals are inextricably linked. Animals are a huge part of the world's agricultural and food systems. However, despite the benefits of modern farm biosecurity measures, when a virus finds its way into a large farm, the virus may easily be sustained in the farm, passing from one generation of animals to the next.
The continuous viral reproduction can sometimes lead to mutations or the mixing of viruses and a never-before-seen virus may emerge. Hence, new collaborative partnerships must be forged between agricultural businesses and human, animal and environmental health groups so that emerging viruses can be better be detected and mitigation strategies developed before a novel virus crosses over to infect man. Often, such an interdisciplinary collaboration is termed the "One Health Approach." Many institutions are calling for One Health interdisciplinary collaborations as the best approach to complex problems such as emerging viral threats.
While there is much discussion about engaging in such collaborations, there is also much resistance from the agricultural industries as those businesses fear a negative impact on their commerce. It may eventually take legislation and policy to make One Health collaborations routine."
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U.S. Senators Klobuchar, Smith announce $180,000 in animal disease prevention funding [for One Health approach] via Brainerd Dispatch - Sunday, January 26, 2020 |
Government and Politics
Klobuchar, Smith announce $180,000 in animal disease prevention funding
SEE complete article at:
https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/government-and-politics/4880415-Klobuchar-Smith-announce-180000-in-animal-disease-prevention-funding
Written By: Brainerd Dispatch | Jan 25th 2020 - 11am.
Sen. Tina Smith (left) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar are the U.S. senators representing Minnesota.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, D-Minn., announced Friday, Jan. 24, they have secured $180,000 in grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture for disease preparedness and response activities in Minnesota.
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A One Health Approach to Tackle Cryptosporidiosis (Cell Press) - Saturday, January 25, 2020 |
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A One Health Approach to Tackle Cryptosporidiosis
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Development of new vaccines for livestock and people to reduce disease and shedding of Cryptosporidium oocysts is a key One Health goal.
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An integrated genotyping approach to detect and differentiate Cryptosporidium parasites in both veterinary and public health will inform source tracking, epidemiology, and surveillance.
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The application of relevant clinical in vivo models and novel in vitro systems will progress understanding of host–pathogen interactions and enable efficacy testing of new therapeutics and vaccines.
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New methods to treat Cryptosporidium-contaminated livestock and human waste will reduce oocyst contamination of the environment and help protect water catchments.
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Knowledge exchange and education are vital to encourage a One Health approach to tackle cryptosporidiosis.
Cryptosporidiosis is a significant diarrhoeal disease in both people and animals across the world and is caused by several species of the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium. Recent research has highlighted the longer-term consequences of the disease for malnourished children, involving growth stunting and cognitive deficits, and significant growth and production losses for livestock. There are no vaccines currently available to prevent the disease and few treatment options in either humans or animals, which has been a significant limiting factor in disease control to date. A One Health approach to tackle zoonotic cryptosporidiosis looking at new advances in veterinary, public, and environmental health research may offer several advantages and new options to help control the disease.
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Note: ONE HEALTH and Parasitology Parasit Vectors 2009 Aug 12;2(1):36 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729733/ |
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Renowned Sociologist Discusses Synergy of Project Save the World and the One Health Approaches - Sunday, January 19, 2020 |
Renowned Sociologist Discusses Synergy of Project Save the World and the One Health Approaches
Submitted to the One Health Initiative website January 18, 2020 by Metta Spencer, PhD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metta_Spencer. Dr. Spencer is president of Science for Peace, a Canadian organization of natural and social scientists based in Toronto. The One Health Initiative team is pleased to present Professor Emeritus Spencer’s http://mettaspencer.com/ commentary:
Millions of people around the world are actively working to save humankind from six global catastrophes: war and the proliferation of weapons (especially nuclear); global warming; famine; pandemics; radioactive contamination; and cyberattacks. Since these disasters are causally interdependent, we would benefit from addressing them as a system, rather than as separate problems. Indeed, a brief set of policy changes could greatly reduce the risk of them all.
A two-day forum met in Toronto in May, 2018 with the intention of compiling just such a list of proposals. After listening one day to to experts on the six threats, the participants gathered in break-out groups and chose the 25 that became the “Platform for Survival.” This list resembles the platform of a political party or the currently popular “Green New Deal,” except that it is relevant in every country of the world, whereas most political platforms are only national in scope.
Activists and researchers addressing these problems also need a common “meeting place,” for sharing ideas and developing actions. Hence Project Save the World was formed after the forum, and has developed such a website: https://tosavetheworld.ca . It is open to the public, but also presents resources for activists. Each week, our editor conducts a one-hour-long video interview with one or several persons about a particular global issue. Those videos are disseminated on social media and kept on the website itself. (See tosavetheworld.ca/videos). An audio podcast version is also available on the website and elsewhere.
The most recent feature of the website is a section called “Global Projects.” Upon request, we offer a free page to any progressive campaign or network in the world that is global in scope and that is working on “saving the world.” One of these pages is a campaigns called “Promote One Health Initiatives.“ *Dr. Laura Kahn of Princeton University is its contact person. Each such page displays its mission statement, a list of URLs to like-minded groups, and a comments column where anyone can post articles or opinions, and can reply to others. (See tosavetheworld.ca/promote-one-health-initiatives/ .)
There is a great similarity between Project Save the World itself and “One Health,” in that both approaches are alert to the common origins of a problem in “inter-disciplinary” factors. For example, One Health physicians and veterinarians can jointly work on diseases caused by the same pathogen or by a common environmental hazard, including climate change.
Likewise, Project Save the World recognizes that famine and pandemics go together, and is often caused more by political factors than by nature or technology or the economy. We also regard both war (or even the production of weaponry) and global warming as relevant causes of famine and pandemics. Moreover, war and weaponry can both cause, and be caused by global warming (armed forces inevitably produce vast amounts of greenhouse gas).
All of these global threats are linked. Cyberattacks are obviously but a new form of warfare. Radioactivity from such sites as Chernobyl, Hanford, Fukushima, the Marshall Islands must be addressed either by shutting down all nuclear power and plutonium production plants, or by more extensive safety measures than are required today. The One Health initiative no doubt also sees radioactive contamination as a problem within its purview.
Hence we see a great overlap between One Health and Project Save the World. Both pay attention to the connections among phenomena that may go beyond the professional expertise of the practitioner. Each requires, therefore, partnerships with other professionals.
Project Save the World and One Health are transnational and transdisciplinary approaches. Let’s work together! Please use the page on our website for communicating with your own activists and for reaching out to a wider community of people who are also working to save the world.
*Physician Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is a co-founder of the One Health Initiative team/website and author of the book One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/one-health-and-politics-antimicrobial-resistance. |
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