One Health Publications

Outstanding Tuberculosis Expert and Notable ‘One Health’ Leader Veterinarian Recognized in Prestigous U.S. Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Magazine  

Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD, a noted American TB authority, immediate past President of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES), and a One Health leader has been featured in the highly regarded Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Magazine, 2016, Issue 3.  Please see the piece about Dr. Thoen on pages 28-30 in https://alumniassociation.mayo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/MC4409-16031.pdf.

“During his half-century-long career in veterinary medicine, Charles Thoen, D.V.M., Ph.D. (M ’71), has worked with food-producing animals, companion animals, nonhuman primates, elk, buffalo and even elephants. Early in his career he was a veterinary medical epidemiologist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He later chaired the department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine at Iowa State University, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Scientific Committee on Tuberculosis in Animals, and World Health Organization Committee on Animal Tuberculosis. ...”

Among many other publications, Dr. Thoen is also co-editor/co-author of Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474295,subjectCd-LS50.html - 3rd Edition (2014) which is listed among other notable One Health textbooks posted on the One Health Initiative website’s Home Page sidebar link entitled “Animal Diseases & Humans” http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/animalHumans.php.

Permission to post on the One Health Initiative website was granted October 17, 2016 by:

Judith D. Anderson
Director
Alumni Center
 
 

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention -  ONE HEALTH

http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/index.html

Australian Veterinary Association – One Health

http://www.ava.com.au/news/media-centre/hot-topics-6

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY & RESEARCH

Global One Health

 See: http://www.wur.nl/en/About-Wageningen/Strategic-Plan/Global-One-Health.htm

Controlling the risks of disease outbreaks and reducing endemic infectious diseases are crucial to food security, public health, climate change and biodiversity. We use the phrase ‘A Global One Health’, as it reflects the interconnectedness and global nature of health care for humans, animals, plants and the environment. Many health risks can be controlled through effective interventions consisting of an adequate and varied food supply, hygiene, medicines, vaccines, vector control and crop protection.

A sustainable and shared approach requires an integrated analysis of infectious diseases, with contributions from various knowledge domains. We perform research into infectious diseases, vectors, ecology, epidemiology, healthy agriculture (animal health and plant health), healthy nutrition and intestinal flora, food security and safety, and social health issues. Through a system approach, we provide an essential contribution to improving the health of people, animals and plants.

Global One Health at Wageningen University & Research focuses on four themes, covering a broad spectrum of health and diseases in a societal context.:  

• Health and (Emerging) infectious diseases
• Health and environment (this includes climate change)
• Health and society
• Health and food

Within all subthemes multidisciplinary research and research integration is endorsed.

Projects

• Successful implementation of intervention strategies From the perspective of Global One Health, successful implementation of promising interventions does not happen as frequently as one would wish....
• Emerging zoonoses in relation to the changing socio-economic environmentInfections acquired from animals, known as zoonoses, are a major source of human microbiological infection and pose a risk to public health. In the...
• Reduction of airborne endotoxins in animal production to improve human and animal health A citation of the position paper ‘Global One Health - a new integrated approach’: "Until recently, disease prevention and control...
• Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy PeopleThe global burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs, e.g. obesity, diabetes, CVD, malignancies), infectious diseases (e.g. malaria, measles) and the...
• Global One Health risks of livestock manure applicationManure is widely used as a natural fertiliser and therefore constitutes a globally important resource for agriculture. However, manure application...

The Ohio State University (USA)

FACULTY POSITION

Department: College of Veterinary Medicine in collaboration with the Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases program

Position: One Health/Ecosystem Health

Rank: Assistant Professor

Description:

“The College of Veterinary Medicine (vet.osu.edu) in partnership with the Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases program (phpid.osu.edu) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to investigate ecosystem health and the role of the environment in the emergence and dissemination of infectious pathogens affecting both animals and humans. ...”

For details see: http://files.constantcontact.com/b8070196be/57f8648c-234c-4ce5-9119-652af9ee8f83.pdf

Integrating one health in national health policies of developing countries: India’s lost opportunities

 Pranab Chatterjee¹, Manish Kakkar¹Email author and Sanjay Chaturvedi²

Infectious Diseases of Poverty20165:87 DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0181-2 ©  The Author(s). 2016 Published: 3 October 2016

Abstract

Background

Globally, the threat of infectious diseases, particularly emerging infectious diseases, originating at the human-animal-environment interface, has caught health systems off guard. With forecasts that future pathogen emergence will be centred in hotspots in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the need to prepare policy frameworks that can combat this threat is urgent.

Discussion

Emergence of diseases such as avian influenza and Ebola virus disease, which threatened social disruption, have established the need for intersectoral coordination/collaboration. These events led to the initiation of establishing institutionalised collaborative frameworks in India to adopt a One Health approach to disease prevention and control. However, the gains made in influenza control could not be adapted to other infectious diseases. Intersectoral coordination was briefly carried out, more as a reactive response to threats. The systemic failure to sustain such efforts have therefore, only undermined a coordinated response. The recent draft National Health Policy, 2015, has also failed to establish the need for intersectoral coordination in disease control approaches. Neglecting the need to endorse linkages between human health, animal health and husbandry, agriculture, and environmental sectors, has led to duplicative and weak response systems.

The absence of health impact assessment with respect to the development agenda in policies, has cast negative effects on the health and wellbeing of man, animal, and the environment. Lack of attention to building core capacity in these critical sectors has further raised challenges in designing and deploying mitigation strategies. With developing countries like India being home to a major portion of the world’s poorest livestock farmers, the absence of a policy discourse that endorses the One Health approach in development and health policies is a major hurdle in eliminating poverty and poverty-related diseases.

Conclusions

The adoption of One Health approaches in health and related sectoral policies is a critical policy requirement for India and other developing countries. The goal should be to not just establish preparedness plans, but also to encourage a policy environment where assessment and mitigation of downstream impacts of different agenda are incorporated.

SEE: http://idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40249-016-0181-2

Press Release: September 28, 2016

 For immediate Release:

The One Health Commission supports Bat Rabies Education in the Americas

“One Health is a very old concept being resurrected in the past 15 years to encourage awareness of the inextricable interconnectedness between humans, animals and the environment. The One Health Commission, a non-profit organization, supports One Health Action Teams that identify and try to address gaps in awareness and education about issues that fall at the intersection of these sectors. One example is the Bat Rabies Education Team (BRET) which promotes a critical message to prevent the spread of Rabies in the Americas: Never Touch a Bat. Educational posters have been developed in partnership with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control and Bat Conservation International (in English, Portuguese and Spanish) and are available free for anyone to download and print for educational purposes. https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/one_health_resources/bat_rabies_education/ ...”

See complete release at:

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/documents/filelibrary/commission_news/press_releases/BRET_Press_Release_92716__Final_AF064504C47E9.pdf

Provided by:

Clarissa Noureddine, DVM, MS, Chair,

Bat Rabies Education Team members

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/documents/filelibrary/resources/bat_rabies_education/Clarissa_Noureddine_Bio_7252016_B79955EFDEE4C.pdf

U.S. One Health Commission Issues: One Health Happenings Newsletter – September 28, 2016

Please see: http://conta.cc/2dHcvQb

New Publications in the One Health Journal Veterinary Sciences — Basel, Switzerland

The new online Open Access journal Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci) published a new issue in 2016:

Vet. Sci., Volume 3, Issue 3 (September 2016)

Full text are available free of charge.

Table of Contents:

Case Report: Gliomatosis Cerebri in the Brain of a Cat
by Stephanie Shrader, Serene Lai, Kelsey Cline and Rachel Moon
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 13; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030013

Article: Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci Isolated from Food Producing Animals: A Public Health Implication
by Etinosa O. Igbinosa, Abeni Beshiru, Lucy U. Akporehe and Abraham G. Ogofure
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 14; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030014

Review: Anaplasma phagocytophilum Manipulates Host Cell Apoptosis by Different Mechanisms to Establish Infection
by Pilar Alberdi, Pedro J. Espinosa, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz and José de la Fuente
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 15; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030015

Review: Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in the Americas
by Job E. Lopez, Aparna Krishnavahjala, Melissa N. Garcia and Sergio Bermudez
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 16; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030016

Review: Cat Mammary Tumors: Genetic Models for the Human Counterpart
by Filomena Adega, Ana Borges and Raquel Chaves
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 17; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030017

Article: p16, pRb, and p53 in Feline Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
by Wachiraphan Supsavhad, Wessel P. Dirksen, Blake E. Hildreth and Thomas J. Rosol
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 18; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030018

Article: Pathogen and Host Response Dynamics in a Mouse Model of Borrelia hermsii Relapsing Fever
by Christopher D. Crowder, Arash Ghalyanchi Langeroudi, Azadeh Shojaee Estabragh, Eric R. G. Lewis, Renee A. Marcsisin and Alan G. Barbour
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 19; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030019

Review: Ehrlichioses: An Important One Health Opportunity
by Tais B. Saito and David H. Walker
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 20; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030020

Review: Genomic Tools and Animal Health
by Ricardo Zanella
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 21; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030021

Article: Forced-Air Warming Provides Better Control of Body Temperature in Porcine Surgical Patients
by Brian T. Dent, Karla A. Stevens and Jeffrey W. Clymer
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 22; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030022

Article: An Evaluation of Quantitative PCR Assays (TaqMan^® and SYBR Green) for the Detection of Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis, and a Novel Fluorescent-ITS1-PCR Capillary Electrophoresis Method for Genotyping B. bovis Isolates
by Bing Zhang, Jacqueline L. Sambono, Jess A. T. Morgan, Bronwyn Venus, Peter Rolls and
Ala E. Lew-Tabor
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 23; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030023

Article: Anaplasma phagocytophilum-Occupied Vacuole Interactions with the Host Cell Cytoskeleton
by Hilary K. Truchan, Chelsea L. Cockburn, Levi J. May, Lauren VieBrock and Jason A. Carlyon
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 25; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030025

Editorial: Comparative Pathogenesis of Cancers in Animals and Humans
by Jaime F. Modiano
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(3), 24; doi:10.3390/vetsci3030024

Provided to the One Health Initiative website September 27, 2016 by:

Margie Ma

Managing Editor

Veterinary Sciences

University of Zurich

Post-Doctoral Researcher in One Health Systems Evaluation

“...One health integrates transdisciplinarity and systemic thinking to create synergies across sectors. Although one health promises better solutions than the classic single disciplinary approaches, methods and benchmarks for its evaluation are missing. This requires the adaptation of methods from many fields that do not belong to classical health disciplines such as education, collective learning processes, data management, etwork science, etc.

The candidate’s responsibility will be to review existing methods from these fields for applicability to the NEOH framework and identify existing methodological gaps. The metrics and indicators will be tested on case studies in integrated surveillance in collaboration with the ISDS. The applicability and usefulness of the methods will be assessed, and the methods will be modified in an iterative process. Results will feed into improving the current NEOH framework....”

Please see more: http://www.jobs.uzh.ch/jobDetail.php?jobID=7004