One Health for 2015 & Beyond

United States Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) has developed a One Health document “embracing One Health as a part of the solution to address changes and challenges in the animal health landscape. …”

See attachment: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/acah/downloads/documents/one_health_for_2015.pdf

Improving Human Health through a One Health Approach in Bangladesh

HSB Health and Science Bulletin (attached): Vol. 9-Number 1-March 2011

SEE pages 17 – 20.

Provided by:

Prof. Dr. Nitish C. Debnath, National Coordinator, One Health Bangladesh & Professor, Department of Microbiology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Chittagong, Bangladesh

1^st International One Health Congress Summary – February 14 – 16, 2011 – Victoria, Australia

SEE: Complete Official Summary Report Attached – Released May 3, 2011

Visionary leaders of the 1^st International One Health Congress meeting from 14 – 16 February 2011 http://www.onehealth2011.com/ included Drs. Martyn Jeggo and David Heymann, a veterinarian and physician respectively.

Martyn H. Jeggo, BVetMed, PhD is Director, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Livestock Industries Australian Animal Health Laboratory (Australia) and David L. Heymann, MD is Director, U.K. Health Protection Agency (United Kingdom) and Editor, Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.  Drs. Jeggo and Heymann are both members of the One Health Initiative autonomous pro bono Team’s honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php

Provided by:

Martyn Jeggo, BVetMed, PhD
Director
Australian Animal Health Laboratory
CSIRO Livestock Industries
PMB 24
Geelong   Vic   3220

Australia

1^st International One Health Congress Abstracts - EcoHealth Journal 

This historic first international One Health meeting http://www.onehealth2011.com/email/index11.html was held in Victoria, Australia February 14-16, 2011.  Its theme concerned “Human Health, Animal Health, the Environment and Global Survival”.

The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono website team strongly supported, endorsed, and publicized this meeting from its onset.  Representatives from the One Health Initiative team served  on the Scientific Advisory Committee via invitation from the meeting’s organizing committee leaders.  

Please view the attached PDF of the meeting’s abstracts. They were originally published in EcoHealth Vol 7, Supplemental 1/February 2011. The full issue is available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1612-9202/7/s1/.

Permission to post and reprint abstracts graciously provided by Aleksei Chmura:
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One Health Initiative Team and Advisory Board Urge United States Secretaries of Departments: Health and Human Services and Homeland Security to Help Provide Funding for “One Health” Institute of Medicine (IOM) Study/Report

The attached letter [PDF] was mailed to the U.S. Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius (Department of Health and Human Services) and Janet Napolitano (Department of Homeland Security) on Monday, April 25, 2011.  Secretaries Sebelius and Napolitano are former governors of their respective states, Kansas and Arizona. 

It was co-signed by the Dean of the Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary medicine, Dr. Ralph Richardson, a notable veterinarian and the eminent and internationally known medical virologist, Dr. Tom Monath, a physician and member of the One Health Initiative (OHI) Autonomous pro bono team. 

In a preliminary notice to fellow honorary advisory board members regarding the mailing of the letter, Dr. Richardson said, “I am e-mailing an advance copy to Dr. Alex Garza [MD, MPH], Secretary Napolitano’s Assistant Secretary and Chief Medical Officer as well as to Dr. Doug Meckes [DVM], a veterinarian in Secretary Napolitano’s office [Food, Agriculture and Veterinary Defense Division, Office of Health Affairs].  I hope that it generates renewed interest in the One Health efforts.  Secretary Napolitano and Dr. Garza both visited Kansas City last year and expressed strong support for the interactions of the various disciplines.  Secretary Sebelius is former Governor of Kansas and one of the first things that she did after being appointed Secretary of DHHS was to, jointly with Secretary Napolitano, reaffirm their support for building the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, KS.  My hope is that, with their understanding of the One Health Initiative, that they will push for the IOM/NRC study.”

Most One Health supporters/advocates believe that having such a prestigious comprehensive One Health study/report will help verify the critical need for implementing the concept in the U.S. and worldwide.  Once definitive parameters are established and documented by such a published study/report, more rapid recognition and institutionalization is expected. 

Funding costs for convening and conducting a study is estimated at approximately $1.2 million.  *Such a relatively small investment should actually help reduce future research expenditures and duplication of services by encouraging more co-equal interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary collaborations.  Moreover, expedited One Health scientific research discoveries “ … will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”  Some available examples in the 20^th and early 21^st centuries are documented in the OHI website News and Publications pages.

 *See previous white paper from the National Academies of Sciences (USA) “A New Biology for the 21st Century” www.nap.edu/catalog/12764.html proposing values of a multi-disciplinary approach. Then think about having a “One Health” white paper conducted, published and widely distributed.

“In July, 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Energy (DOE) asked the National Research Council’s Board on Life Sciences to convene a committee to examine the current state of biological research in the United States and recommend how best to capitalize on recent technological and scientific advances that have allowed biologists to integrate biological research findings, collect and interpret vastly increased amounts of data, and predict the behavior of complex biological systems.” …

Man’s best friend: a joint tumour marker in man and dog

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna), Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210 Vienna, Austria

The dog may be man’s best friend but even so it comes as a surprise that the two species share a common tumour marker.  This finding comes from a joint study between scientists of the Vetmeduni Vienna and the MedUni Wien, headed by Erika Jensen-Jarolim.  The researchers looked for similarities in breast cancer of dogs and women, focussing on the tumour marker CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen).  They uncovered a molecule, the CEA receptor, that turned out to be essentially identical in the two species.  The result could lead to the rapid development of new therapeutic methods for use in dogs and humans. …

Please read more:

http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research/top-news/mans-best-friend-a-joint-tumour-marker-in-man-and-dog/

One Health in ACTION …

Important New ‘open access’ journal addresses infection between animals and humans

  Please see attached press release about:

“Infection Ecology and Epidemiology”

www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net

Infection Ecology & Epidemiology is published in cooperation with the Network for Infection Ecology & Epidemiology (IEE) based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Infection, Ecology and Epidemiology, IEE network is a collaboration for researchers with interest in zoonotic infections. IEE is an integration concept including several universities and governmental organizations that wish to contribute to a sustainable intellectual platform where veterinarians, physicians, molecular biologists, ecologists and environmental chemists with an interest in zoonotic infections can interact and create synergies.

The rationale is not to build up new laboratory facilities, but to use and collaborate within already established research structures.

Main partners

Uppsala University

National Veterinary Institute, SVA

Swedish Agricultural University, SLU

Linnaeus University, Kalmar

Founded: 2010

Physical location: SVA, Ulls väg 2A, 751 89 Uppsala, Sweden

Project Leader: Björn Olsen, MD, professor in infectious disease at Uppsala University and senior physician at Uppsala Academic Hospital.  Dr. Olsen is also an ornithologist with an interest in the consequences of interactions between humans, domestic animals and wildlife.

Project coordinator: Lovisa Svensson, PhD, Uppsala University

One health: the importance of companion animal vector-borne disease

By: Professor Michael J. Day, BSc, BVMS (Hons), PhD

       Professor of Veterinary Pathology

       School of Clinical Sciences

       University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Dr. Day is Chair of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s (WSAVA) One Health Committee.

Parasites & Vectors April 13, 2011 4:49 – Also see http://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-4-49.pdf 

Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 9, 03 March 2011

Perspectives

Evaluation of syndromic surveillance in the Netherlands: its added value and recommendations for implementation

C C van den Wijngaard¹, W van Pelt¹, N J Nagelkerke², M Kretzschmar¹, M P Koopmans^1,3

1.       Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

2.       United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

3.       Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Citation style for this article: van den Wijngaard CC, van Pelt W, Nagelkerke NJ, Kretzschmar M, Koopmans MP. Evaluation of syndromic surveillance in the Netherlands: its added value and recommendations for implementation. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(9):pii=19806. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19806
Date of submission: 05 July 2010

In the last decade, syndromic surveillance has increasingly been used worldwide for detecting increases or outbreaks of infectious diseases that might be missed by surveillance based on laboratory diagnoses and notifications by clinicians alone. There is, however, an ongoing debate about the feasibility of syndromic surveillance and its potential added value. Here we present our perspective on syndromic surveillance, based on the results of a retrospective analysis of syndromic data from six Dutch healthcare registries, covering 1999–2009 or part of this period. These registries had been designed for other purposes, but were evaluated for their potential use in signalling infectious disease dynamics and outbreaks. Our results show that syndromic surveillance clearly has added value in revealing the blind spots of traditional surveillance, in particular by detecting unusual, local outbreaks independently of diagnoses of specific pathogens, and by monitoring disease burden and virulence shifts of common pathogens. Therefore we recommend the use of syndromic surveillance for these applications.

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19806 

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