A One Health Milestone...

U. S. Veterinary Journal Establishes Visionary One Health Policy and One Health Section

The official journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), Clinician’s Brief http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal/october-2011: see View this Issue, a peer reviewed journal, has established a unique, visionary and seminal One Health policy...the journal is primarily designed to provide pertinent veterinary medical scientific articles for busy small animal medicine/surgery practitioners. 

Clinician’s Brief has officially adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  In addition, a special One Health section will be published in each subsequent issue and posted on the One Health Initiative website.  The One Health section is entitled CAPSULES—Current literature in brief, featuring One Health Initiative Veterinary, Medical, Scientific [Highlights] —see page 39 in the current issue http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/54b87b67#/54b87b67/41.

The One Health Initiative team is delighted to have formed a collaborative liaison with NAVC’s Clinician’s Brief via its editor Indu Mani, DVM, DSc.  Please see attachments showing the  Front cover of the October 2011 Volume 9 Number 10 inaugural One Health issue: click on pdf view or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/cover%202.pdf; the Contents Section: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/contents%204.pdf; and Dr. Mani’s initial One Health Initiative Editorial commentary: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/indu%204.pdf. 

It should be noted that Dr. Mani, a veterinarian and avid One Health advocate, practices small animal veterinary medicine as well as being the editor of Clinician’s Brief.  She is also well versed in public health issues having received her Doctor of Science degree (DSc) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health in Boston, MA (USA).

The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding yearly meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA).  It is one of the largest veterinary medical continuing education events in the world.  A focus is maintained “on a single goal—providing high quality, practical information to every member of the veterinary [medical] professional team.”  The 2012 Conference is scheduled for January 14-18, 2012.

Health Council of the Netherlands Publish Advice on Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production and the Consequences for Human Public Health

August 31, 2011: http://www.gezondheidsraad.nl/en/publications/antibiotics-food-animal-production-and-resistant-bacteria-humans

Provided to One Health Initiative website October 11, 2011 by:

Dr. M.F.M. Langelaar

Scientific staff member

National Health Council of the Netherlands

Parnassusplein 5

Postbus 16052

2500BB Den Haag

Room C06 18

T 070-3406693

E mfm.langelaar@gr.nl

World Food Prize laureate to kick off new ISU One Health lecture series – October 12, 2011

 “AMES, Iowa (USA)- The Iowa State University-based international organization One Health Commission will sponsor a lecture with ISU by 2010 World Food Prize Laureate David Beckmann at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Des Moines Marriott, Salon D, at 700 Grand Ave.

His presentation, "One Health: World Health Through Collaboration," is scheduled in conjunction with this year's World Food Prize events and is free and open to the public. ...”

Please read more:  http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/sep/onehealthlecture or click on HTM View.

Contacts:

Roger Mahr, One Health Commission, 515-294-0572, rkmahr@onehealthcommission.org  

Tracy Raef, College of Veterinary Medicine, 515-294-4602, traef@iastate.edu  

Dan Kuester, News Service, 515-294-0704, kuester@iastate.edu

See important September 30, 2011 Huffington Post column (USA) that includes One Health implications: 

‘Contagion’ Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases

By Lynne Peeples lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com

Please SEE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/contagion-infectious-disease-animals-environment-health_n_987455.html?1317396819

Contagion Movie was One Health Deficient...making it Unrealistic!

What Contagion missed

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 29 September 2011

“It's not often that Hollywood ventures into the realm of epidemics and public health, and when it does, the outcome is usually laughably out of touch with reality -- like Outbreak, the 1995 movie about a deadly Ebola-like virus that infected a city. ...”

Please read the entire review in Dr. Kahn’s Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists column:

http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/what-contagion-missed

Outstanding One Health-One Medicine Program at University of Missouri (USA)

To learn more, visit http://www.missouri.edu/mizzou-advantage/  or contact Facilitator Carolyn J. Henry, DVM, MS at henryc@missouri.edu

Dr. Henry is a veterinarian who concomitantly serves as Professor of Oncology at MU.  She also conducts biomedical cancer research that is of significant value to humans and animals.  

http://facultycouncil.missouri.edu/meetings/documents/One-Health-one-page-1B9A50.pdf

One Health Newsletter Summer Issue Published today - September 26, 2011

A product of the Florida Department of Health, Environmental Health Division (USA)

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/SummerOHNL2011-Combined.pdf

One Health Principles Needed for Ageing Research in Humans and Animals

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2011/47_3/47_3.htm

“In these papers, I examine controversy over the nature of ageing.  Central ideas include why post-reproductive life span is relatively common among animals, and implications for evaluating.

Contentious debate revolves around whether ageing is a combined effect of life’s events on residuals of reproductive robustness, or whether ageing could be a purposeful product of natural selection. 

In my view, complexities of ageing might be understood by simultaneously considering the cell, the organism, and the population.  The idea that events of post-reproductive life represent considerable investment of precious energy challenges some accepted precepts.   I suggest that ageing and its investments may have evolved at least partly as a means of niche preservation for populations and species at multiple levels of life. 

It is clear that advancing knowledge and resolving questions and problems relative to ageing requires a One Health approach for human and animal species.  The necessary knowledge evolution will occur only by greatly increasing the level of interdisciplinary research, and especially direct collaborations between research scientists and health care providers across disciplines.”

Dennis F. Lawler, DVM

Note: Dr. Lawler is a retired veterinarian currently residing in O'Fallon, Illinois (USA). He is a consultant in anatomic and clinical pathology for broad-scope genetics studies of the mammalian body plan, using the Portuguese Water Dog canine model, Project Georgie, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA). 

Permission for the One Health Initiative website to post access to these three articles was graciously granted on September 22, 2011 by Gill Dilmitis, Associate Editor, gsdilmitis@wanadoo.fr, Veterinaria Italiana Journal.

Poster presented in the 1st International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface(ICOPHAI), September 15-17, 2011: UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Provided to One Health Initiative website September 23, 2011 by:

Professor Nitish C Debnath, DVM, MSc (TVM), PhD
National Consultant, Outbreak Response and Laboratory Expert
Avian Influenza Technical Unit
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Pshusampad Bhaban, Farmgate, Dhaka

Bangladesh

Global Programs and Initiatives [One Health]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-programs-and-initiatives/one-health/