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Sources: Lisa Freeman, 785-532-2844, freeman@vet.k-state.edu; Beth
Montelone, 7 85-532-1333, bethmont@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Cheryl May, 785-532-6415, may@k-state.edu

K-STATE AND KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION TEAM UP TO PROMOTE 'ONE HEALTH
KANSAS'

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University and the Kansas Health Foundation
are collaborating to make Kansans healthier. A new venture, "One Health
Kansas," will promote awareness and understanding of the
interconnections among human, animal and environmental health.

The Kansas State University Foundation accepted the award for the
project, which is funded for three years for a total of $2,292,308.

"One Health Kansas" will be directed by Lisa Freeman, associate vice
president for innovation, K-State Olathe Innovation Campus, and Beth
Montelone, associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and interim
scientific director, Biosecurity Research Institute.

"The project has two components," Freeman said. "The first is to build
the pipeline of future public health professionals and the second is to
provide broader and more in-depth education for current and future
professionals. This will develop a public health workforce capable of
addressing emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases. In addition,
'One Health Kansas' will enable K-State to develop new collaborations
focused on infection prevention with Stormont Vail HealthCare and the
Olathe Medical Center.

"One Health Kansas is an exciting opportunity for K-State to utilize its
strengths in collaboration, communication and integration," said
K-State President Jon Wefald. "K-State will take a leadership role in
promoting One Health concepts across the state of Kansas. Moreover, if
K-State is selected as the site for the National Bio and Agro-defense
Facility -- NBAF -- this award will help meet NBAF's workforce needs
and allow more of our best and brightest graduates to stay in Kansas."

"To achieve these outcomes, the project will create a series of outreach
and education programs to be delivered on K-State's Manhattan campus
and at partner community college sites, including Dodge City, Johnson
County and Kansas City, Kan.," Montelone said. "It also will link
current master of public health programs offered by the University of
Kansas and K-State and promote curricular sharing between these to
enhance both. 'One Health Kansas' will provide continuing education
opportunities for current public health officials to supplement their
knowledge of One Health topics."

"One Health Kansas is a truly innovative and cutting-edge program, and
one that has limitless potential for both Kansas State University and
the state of Kansas," said Steve Coen, Kansas Health Foundation
president and chief executive officer. "With its focus on building a
pipeline of future public health professionals, as well as studying the
emerging issue of zoonotic diseases, this program is one the Kansas
Health Foundation is proud to support."

"The Kansas Health Foundation has a long history of supporting Kansas
State University through their gifts to the KSU Foundation," said Gary
Hellebust, president and chief executive officer. "This historic gift
not only brings our partnership to a new level but also demonstrates
their confidence in K-State's ability to positively impact public
health across our state."

These programs will build on a United States Department of Agriculture
Higher Education Challenge Grant previously awarded to K-State under
the direction of Freeman, Montelone and others. The USDA project
"Pathways to Public Health" will result in development of an
introductory public health course offered jointly with the community
college partners; a summer undergraduate residency experience in public
health, and establishment of five year combined bachelor's/master of
public health degrees at K-State.

"One Health is a concept endorsed by the major national organizations
representing physicians, veterinarians and public health
professionals," Freeman said. "Collaboration among these groups is
needed in Kansas, so that citizens of our state can understand and
manage the complexity associated with emerging zoonotic diseases,
globalization of the food system, blurring of the urban-suburban-rural
interface and many other challenges affecting the health of Kansas
children and adults."

One Health Kansas will involve K-State faculty and students from the
Colleges of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Human Ecology and
Veterinary Medicine, the K-State Graduate School and the K-State Olathe
Innovation Campus.


Cheryl May
Assistant Vice President for University Relations/
Director, Media Relations
Kansas State University
9 Anderson Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-0117
785-532-6415 Phone
785-532-6418 FAX

On Saturday, October 25th, 2008, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Executive Vice President of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) opened the plenary session of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD)annual meeting with a presentation entitled:  "The AVMA One Medicine Initiative--Overview and Opportunities.  This keynote talk was followed by several papers on antimicrobial resistance.

Reported by:

Craig N. Carter, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl ACVPM

Director and Professor, Epidemiology
Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center
College of Agriculture

College of Public Health
University of Kentucky
1490 Bull Lea Road
P.O. Box 14125
Lexington, KY  40512-4125

One Health ‘Supercourse’ Partnership Proposed
                        www.pitt.edu/~super1

We propose that the One Health mission could partner with the Supercourse for broad, global distribution of education and outreach for Onehealth.

Supercourse:  The Supercourse began about 10 years ago as the result of the recognition that there has been a 25 year increase in life expectancy world wide. Virtually all of the increase has been the result of prevention. Most of prevention is the sharing of prevention knowledge, prevention education.  It was thought if we could harness the rapidly emerging technology of the Internet we could have a profound effect on health.

World workforce development in the area of global health is inadequate.  There are 240 times more clinicians than there are epidemiologists. There even is 24 times more morticians than there are those trained in epidemiology.  There needs to be a marked increase in those trained in global health and epidemiology.

In order to accomplish this a new model must be produced. It costs over $250,000 to produce a Ph.D. in Epidemiology. There must be a better way to train much larger numbers of individuals at a much lower cost.

In the late 1990s the Supercourse was born based upon a very simple model. The first component of the model was to build a global network on the Internet for the sharing of expert knowledge.  Thus should an earthquake occur in China, it is better to have an expert network in place before the earthquake rather than to try and cobble expertise together afterwards.   The Supercourse network grew from less than 500 people in the late 1990s, to now where there are over 56,000 global health experts from 172 countries.

We began to recognize that a global health network had enormous expertise and knowledge, if we could collect and share this.  We decided to establish a very simple knowledge exchange system in that we collected the best PowerPoint lectures from the network and then shared the knowledge in an open source lecture library for all to use for free.  We were very surprised how willing the experts were to share their lectures.  During a period of 7 years we have collected 3506 lectures (www.pitt.edu/~super1).  The authors include 15 lectures from Nobel Prize winners 150 from members of the IOM/NAS, the former US Surgeon General, the head of the NIH, etc.  Interestingly we have about 30 wonderful lectures from Veterinarians.

Our lectures are the most widely used lectures in global health.  We have 42,000 mirrored servers in the Sudan, Mongolia, Nepal, China, India, etc.  We receive 80-100 million hit per year. Last year our lectures  taught over  1 million students.  We are thus bringing global health training to millions.

We are moving into many new directions. By the end of 2009 we expect to provide a DVD of all the lectures to every medical and public health student in the world.  In addition, in 2009 we will have built a Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse where we have harvested, categorized, and rated over 1.3 million lectures.

The Supercourse has already been evolving in part to a One Health Initiative. We have over 20 Veterinarians who have contributed over 30 lectures on a wide range of topics from the teaching of statistics to the interaction of animal and human diseases.  Our network reaches thousands of veterinarians as well as those in global health.  We have not purposely develop this area, it has evolved by itself, and it is very important.  We would very much encourage the collection of lectures in the area of the One Health Initiative.  The slides and lectures from Veterinary Medicine and Global health are seamlessly available to each other in the Supercourse. Sharing of lectures, sharing of Knowledge and improvement of Global health can be accomplished with a Supercourse-One Health partnership.

Italian Society of Preventive Medicine Announces Support for ‘One Health Initiative’

On behalf of SIMeVeP, Società Italiana di Medicina Veterinaria Preventiva (Italian Society of Preventive Veterinary Medicine), after the notice from our member Romano Zilli DVM, in my capacity of President of the society itself, I give support to the "one health initiative".

Wishing you the best results

Aldo Grasselli, DVM

President of SIMeVeP

www.veterinariapreventiva.it

SIMeVeP is a cultural society for the improvement and diffusion in Italy and outside of the culture of veterinarians working in public health, animal health and welfare, food safety and environmental protection.

One Health Club at the University of Pennsylvania 

Over this past summer, a One Health graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) was formed through the initiative of Catherine Brinkley (Penn Vet) and Shadia Bel Hamdounia (Penn Med).  "We wanted to foster more communication between the health professional schools and to discuss key issues that overlap in our education."  The group hosted their first panel discussion on October 2, 2008 with representatives in attendance from the schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, nursing and medical science graduate programs.  The topic was “antibiotic use in food animals”, a subject gaining intense scientific interest due to concerns over antibiotic resistance and how this practice may affect reduced antibiotic efficacy among humans and animals that are treated individually for bacterial infections.   Vigorous dialogue ensued about the economics of food animal medicine, as long-term use of preventative antibiotics is also used to promote growth in food animals.  The panel provided opposing viewpoints through diverse panelists, with representatives from the Union of Concerned Scientists (Dr. Margaret Mellon), Bayer Animal Health (Dr. Jim Sears), USDA (Dr. William Flynn), Pennsylvania State Health Department (DR. Nkuchia M'ikanatha), and an organic food distributor (Marco Lentini, founder of Gia Pronto, Wharton MBA). “Our first meeting had a wonderful turn out (200 people) from all schools- and it definitely stimulated interesting discussion about current food animal practices and the overlay with human and animal health,” reported Catherine Brinkley.  The panel was a valuable opportunity for health professionals to meet each other and discuss key issues that pertain to everyone’s area of expertise.

“Another one of the ideas at the forefront of our discussions has been a way to tackle the zoonotic disease overlay in human and animal medicine and to give it a focus.  We [the One Health club] had thought to focus on the role that companion animals play, specifically when it comes to children and immunosuppressed individuals.  It often seems that physicians recommend getting rid of pets, but that might not always be the answer considering their value to members of the family [the human-animal bond phenomenon].  We also wanted to address who's role it is (veterinary medical or medical doctor) to inform human patients of disease risk(s) from their pets (veterinarians obviously know more [about zoonotic diseases] so should we work at human hospitals as consultants?”  Many other questions continue to arise and are expected to be addressed in future joint student interdisciplinary discussions in the true spirit of One Health.  

  Provided by:

Catherine "Katie" Brinkley  

University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical/PhD student

Contact information: catb@vet.upenn.edu

Shadia Bel Hamdounia

University of Pennsylvania Medical (MD/MBE) student

Contact information: Chadia@mail.med.upenn.edu

UPenn One Health Officer Board

Katie Brinkley                    Penn Vet/PhD, 2011
Shadia  Bel Hamdounia    Penn MD/MBE, 2011

Haley  Moss                     Penn Med, 2011
Cara   Zayac                    Masters of Public Health
Michael Harhay                Masters of Public Health

Dana Mosher                     Penn Vet, 2012

Sean  Spencer                  Penn MD/PhD, 2011

October 21, 2008

The Institute for Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Food Safety Lazio and Tuscany Regions [Italy]

 ("Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana") has advised us that they are supporting the One Health Initiative.   http://www.izslt.it/izs/

Provided by:

Romano Zilli, DVM
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Regioni Lazio e Toscana
V. Appia Nuova 1411
00178 Rome

Italy
06.79099302

Research, Development and International Affairs Unit

--News Release--

Colorado State University (CSU) Students Create “One Health” Club – First of its Kind

“The students at Colorado State University have been keeping their fingers on the pulse of the healthcare profession and its new direction.  With the release of the American Veterinary Medical Association’s One Health Initiative Task Force report, there is an increased awareness of the initiative and its significance for those involved in veterinary, human, and environmental health.  The One Health Initiative calls for increased collaboration among health science professionals, academic institutions, government agencies, and industries to address the significant global health and environmental challenges of today. 

Erica Monaco and Amanda Berrian, combined degree program students in Public Health and Veterinary Medicine, recognize the importance of improved collaboration between veterinary and human medical professionals.  Nearly 75 % of emerging infectious diseases are of animal origin and are capable of being transmitted to humans.  To address these and related issues, Monaco and Berrian created the first University student organization specifically designed to promote the One Health Initiative.  Their goal is to facilitate improved cooperation and collaboration among the next generation of health sciences professionals by fostering interdisciplinary relationships while still in training.  Their student organization, the One Health Club, is open to students currently in graduate degree programs in all health sciences fields including biomedical sciences, natural resources, veterinary medicine, and applied human sciences.  Their faculty advisor, Dr. Francisco Olea-Popelka, is an Assistant Professor at CSU in addition to being an external consultant for the Irish Department of Agriculture on topics related to the control and eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in cattle and wildlife species.  Dr. Olea-Popelka will present his work at the first One Health Club meeting set for October 30, 2008.  For more information, e-mail OHCinfo@colostate.edu”

Provided by:

 One Health Club at Colorado State University

 College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 Erica Monaco (President)

 Amanda Berrian (Vice-President)

 Bridget Schuler (Secretary)

 Kelly Fielitz (Treasurer)

 Dr. Francisco Olea-Popelka (Faculty Advisor)

 Laura Backus (Public Health Outreach Coordinator)

 Colorado State University One Health Club

 Vision: To encourage increased collaboration among students, faculty, and community members in transdisciplinary health sciences fields to gain a greater appreciation and understanding for the inextricable link between animal, human and environmental health.

 Mission Statement:  The mission of the CSU One Health Club is to support the One Health Initiative through organized involvement and collaboration with environmental, public and animal health communities.  OHC will carry out this mission by providing a forum for the discussion of health-related issues facing humans, animals, and the ecosystem.  These issues include, but are not limited to, zoonotic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, globalization, and climate change.  OHC will support programs that endeavor to reduce human and animal disease and disability and improve human and animal population well-being.  OHC recognizes that there is an inextricable link between the health of all species and their environment, and that a holistic approach to these issues is needed.  OHC will strive to improve communications, encourage collaboration, and enhance integration of animal, human, and environmental health for the benefit of all.

NOTE: The Kahn-Kaplan-Monath One Health team encourages other schools (colleges) of veterinary medicine and medicine to contact the CSU One Health Club at OHCinfo@colostate.edu and begin establishing additional One Health clubs with liaison among all.

As an alum of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, I am deeply saddened by the passing of Dean Emeritus Allan Rosenfield, MD.  Dean Rosenfield passed away on Sunday, October 12th after courageously battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for several years. He was a leading advocate for women's health and was a supporter of One Health.

Dean Rosenfield's obituary  can be read in the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/nyregion/16rosenfield.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss  Donations in his memory can be made to the Allan Rosenfield Scholars Fund, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, 14th floor, NY, NY 10032.  Online donations can be made at https://giving.columbia.edu/giveonline/.


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

October 12, 2012

Indian Veterinary Public Health Association Announces Endorsement [Support] of the One Health Initiative

Dr. P. V. Ramchandra Rao, President of the Indian Veterinary Public Health Association notified us today that the association supports the One Health Initiative.

Dr. P.V. Ramchandra Rao, President

Indian Veterinary Public Health Association

#313, Maheswari Complex

Masab Tank Hyderabad 500 028, (A.P.)

India