One Health Publications

“ONE HEALTH” Editorial Published on ‘Parasites and Vectors’…"ONE HEALTH" and Parasitology

Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2:36 (12 August 2009)

 http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/2/1/36

U.S. One Health Commission (OHC) Sponsors Important One Health Webinar –July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT with Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

"One Health can provide a safe, 'no judgment zone' for many needed conversations surrounding our most difficult global and environmental health challenges. Yesterday [July 6, 2016] the One Health Commission was pleased to present Dr. Kahn's data driven research in her webinar, 'One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance'. The first of a two-part series, that webinar saw over 200 online attendees from over 30 countries. Now that the word is out, next week's webinar on 'Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment' will likely draw even more participants."

Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission                                                                                       

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/index.cfm/37526/78598/antimicrobial_resistance_in_the_environment_part_2_of_2

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (Part 2 of 2)

07/13/2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  EDT

Title: Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (Part 2 of 2)

Overview: 
This presentation will discuss findings of widespread antibiotic resistance in the environment. Massive amounts of human and animal waste applied to agricultural fields alter the global “resistome.” Wildlife never exposed to antibiotics harbor antibiotic resistant bacteria in their feces. The Human Microbiome project has found that microbial cells outnumber human cells by an estimated 10-fold, fundamentally changing our perceptions about health and disease. Taken together, the findings of antibiotic resistance in external and internal environments suggest that human antibiotic use has altered global microbial populations in ways that we do not fully understand. We are fast approaching a post antibiotic era. This presents challenges and opportunities and will require a One Health approach to succeed. 

Learning Objectives: 
1. Understand the 21st century challenges posed by the growing human population and its increasing demands for terrestrial and aquatic animal proteins. 
2. Develop familiarity with metagenomics and “The Global Resistome.” 
3. Understand how open defecation jeopardizes human, animal, and environmental health. 
4. Understand how application of manure to agricultural fields alters the global “resistome” and harms global health. 

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

Dr. Kahn is a Co-Founder, One Health Initiative, http://www.onehealthinitiative.com and Columnist, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org  

 For more information, please click here.

One Health movement in South Asia 

See http://www.onehealthnetwork.asia/

U.S. One Health Commission (OHC) Sponsors Important One Health Webinar – Wednesdays, July 6, 2016 and July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT

Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) – Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP presenting http://goo.gl/ooytGQ

https://www.onehealthcommission.org/index.cfm/37526/78597/webinar_one_health_and_the_politics_of_antibiotic_resistance_part_1_of_2

07/06/2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Title One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2)

Overview: 
The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria has created a crisis in medicine and veterinary medicine. The use of antibiotics as growth promoting agents in livestock has been a highly political issue. Europe approved avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic, in the 1970’s. Its widespread use led to the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). In contrast, the US has requested that its livestock producers voluntarily stop using antibiotic growth promoting agents. Using a One Health approach by integrating the perspectives of medicine/public health and veterinary medicine/agriculture, this presentation briefly compares and contrasts the EU versus the US experience regarding antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and livestock production. 

Learning Objectives: 
1. Understand the history behind low dose antibiotic use in agriculture. 
2. Understand how the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) drove public policy in Europe. 
3. Understand the different policy approaches in Europe and the U.S. regarding avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic used extensively in pork production, and how they impacted VRE epidemiology. 
4. Understand how genomics can play a crucial role in antimicrobial resistance surveillance. 

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

Co-Founder, One Health Initiative, http://www.onehealthinitiative.com  

Columnist, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org  

 Part 2 of this webinar series, "Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment", will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT. Click here for more information and to register. 

 Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP https://goo.gl/ak4f6T

http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/events.php?query=Webinar%3A+One+Health+and+the+Politics+of+Antibiotic+Resistance+%28Part+1+of+2%29

Pandemic Proofing the World

An epidemiologist in Nairobi on the next Zika virus

“I’m a veterinary epidemiologist working on global “One Health” issues at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), located in East Africa. ILRI’s headquarters lie on the outskirts of the city of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and home to the highly fatal Nairobi sheep disease. Nairobi was also the origin of several tick fevers and the Kenya tick typhus, which caused skin lesions in people and sometimes death. The country itself is located at the edge of the spectacular Rift Valley, home to Rift Valley fever, the cause of abortions in sheep and hemorrhagic fevers that can kill people. To our east is the beautiful Kenyan coast, breeder of East Coast fever, a cancer-like disease that kills calves as well as adult cattle within three weeks of parasitic infection. Immediately to our west is Uganda, where the Zika virus was first detected in the lush Zika forest. First found in a captive rhesus monkey, caged and placed in the forest to detect yellow fever, the virus is the cause of the globally spreading birth defect known as Zika, or microencephalopathy. Still farther west flows the dark Ebola River, which gave its name to the Ebola virus, the cause of Ebola hemorrhagic fevers that recently killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. ...”

                                                    By Delia Grace, MVB, MSc, PhD

Please read complete article https://howwegettonext.com/pandemic-proofing-the-world-98222a38782#.qc53tzvtt

 A One Health opinion...

One Health, Physicians (medical doctors), and more – June 28, 2016 National & International Status

Bruce Kaplan, DVM

Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative website

Co-Founder One Health Initiative team/website

www.onehealthinitiative.com

PLOS One Journal

A One Health Message about Bats Increases Intentions to Follow Public Health Guidance on Bat Rabies

Lu H, McComas KA, Buttke DE, Roh S, Wild MA (2016) A One Health Message about Bats Increases Intentions to Follow Public Health Guidance on Bat Rabies. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156205. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156205

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0156205

Abstract

Since 1960, bat rabies variants have become the greatest source of human rabies deaths in the United States. Improving rabies awareness and preventing human exposure to rabid bats remains a national public health priority today. Concurrently, conservation of bats and the ecosystem benefits they provide is of increasing importance due to declining populations of many bat species. This study used a visitor-intercept experiment (N = 521) in two U.S. national parks where human and bat interactions occur on an occasional basis to examine the relative persuasiveness of four messages differing in the provision of benefit and uncertainty information on intentions to adopt a rabies exposure prevention behavior. We found that acknowledging benefits of bats in a risk message led to greater intentions to adopt the recommended rabies exposure prevention behavior without unnecessarily stigmatizing bats. These results signify the importance of communicating benefits of bats in bat rabies prevention messages to benefit both human and wildlife health.

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

The new online Open Access journal Veterinary Sciences, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci) published two new issues.

Important One Health Leadership Position Notice:

Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine

A unique opportunity to lead a dynamic Center dedicated to One Health

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking a veterinarian with proven leadership experience and a strong commitment to protecting and improving public health to lead the agency’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, (CVM)  a senior leadership position within the Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program. ..."

See attached CVM Director Search Flyer and Statement of Duties http://goo.gl/tgijNg.

The Brown Journal of World Affairs

Another important documented economic validation for utilizing the One Health approach for sustainable Global Public Health…

“...given the zoonotic nature of most emerging infectious disease threats,

a “One Health” approach that builds cooperation and coordination between

animal and human public health systems is essential. Robust veterinary systems

that meet OIE standards are needed to provide early warning, curb antibiotic

and other drug resistance in microbes, and control emerging animal diseases in

a cost-effective manner before they threaten humans. ...”

Volume XXI Issue 2 Spring–Summer 2015

Global Health

International Cooperative Responses to Pandemic Threats: A Critical Analysis

Milan Brahmbhatt and Olga Jonas

"In this paper, we argue that the world appears to be seriously underinvesting in international cooperation for the prevention and control of pandemics—for reasons that range from outdated models of the pandemic threat to challenges in the provision of global public goods, in tackling catastrophic risks, and in the political economy of public choice. Nevertheless, these challenges can be met. The economic returns on investments to prevent and better control pandemics are extremely large. The last 15 years provide valuable lessons from both suc- cesses and setbacks, suggesting four principles for a plan of action to revitalize international cooperative responses to pandemic threats. "

Milan Brahmbhatt is Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and a member of the project team for the New Climate Economy Initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, where he leads the work of the Country Transitions workstream. Before joining the New Climate Economy, Milan worked at the World Bank as Senior Adviser to the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, dealing with a wide range of macroeconomic and structural policy is- sues, including the economics of climate change, sustainable growth, and infectious diseases.

Olga Jonas is an Economic Adviser at the World Bank. She has coordinated responses to avian flu and other pandemics since 2006. Her prior duties include advising on replenishments of the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries, leading economic work of the global task force on small states, and coordinating responses to the extractive industries review and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She also led macroeconomic operations in francophone African countries for over a decade. She joined the World Bank in 1983 after working at the Bank for International Settlements and the OECD. She holds degrees from Williams College and Princeton University. 

https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/journal-world-affairs/212-spring%E2%80%93summer-2015/international-cooperative-responses-pandemic-threats-critical-analysis