Reminder: One Health Inter-Regional European Conference

Date: September 22, 23, and 24, 2016

Location Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania

For details see: www.onehealth.ro

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General presentation

General presentation of the conference

Organising this One Health Inter-Regional European Conference comes as a natural consequence of the momentum that the One Health concept has gathered for the last couple of years. Romania is truly honoured to be part of the One Health movement and firmly believes that due to its half of century experience in comparative medicine and not only, will have a positive impact on the One Health trajectory.

We invite all professions linked to One Health to attend this Conference, because One Health is best defined with the phrase “It’s all connected!”

The conference will be organised under the auspices of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) by close collaboration of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences and the One Health New Medical Concept Association in Romania.

Erratum to: Bartonella spp. - a chance to establish One Health concepts in veterinary and human medicine

Regier Y, O’Rourke F, Kempf V

Parasites & Vectors 2016, 9 :330 (10 June 2016)

Abstract | Full Text | PDF | PubMed

http://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1546-x

MEDICINA (Buenos Aires) 2016; 76: 159-165 - Journal Online: www.jnsci.org (Open-Access)

ZOONOTIC TUBERCULOSIS. A COMPREHENSIVE ONE HEALTH APPROACH

*CHARLES O. THOEN1, BRUCE KAPLAN2, TYLER C. THOEN3, MICHAEL J. GILSDORF4, JACK A. SHERE5

Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2One Health Initiative, Sarasota, Fla, 3Board Certification Internal Medicine, McFarland Clinic, Ames, IA, 4Former Director of the National Center for Animal Health Programs, United States Department of Agriculture, 5Deputy Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. USA

Abstract: The objective of this report is to provide information on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infections in animals and in humans. Included is information on the susceptibility of different species as well as information on etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and control of this disease. The term One Health has been adopted to describe the unified human medical and veterinary interdisciplinary/mul­tidisciplinary collaborative approach to zoonoses and will be critical for future endeavors in the control of the global TB epidemic. This unified paradigm is ideally suited for control of bovine TB and many other international public health and clinical health issues. Sharing resources and increasing interaction between public health and veterinary medical scientists can raise awareness of ‘shared risk’ of bovine TB between humans and animals and, in resource-limited situations, can maximize use of existing infrastructure and reduce unnecessary duplication of effort in disease control programs.

http://www.medicinabuenosaires.com/PMID/27295705.pdf

*Dr. Charles O. Thoen [DVM, PhD], an internationally recognized Tuberculosis expert, is the principal Co-editor of the One Health textbook, Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474295,subjectCd-LS50.html - 3rd Edition (2014) and immediate past president of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES).  Dr. Thoen is also a longstanding One Health leader and supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

US Biologic

One Health Solutions to Prevent Global Disease, Spring, 2016

An updated presentation – Please see attached PDF.

Note: US Biologic is a major U.S. Company that has strongly endorsed One Health http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=Major+U.S.+Company+%28US+Biologic%29+Strongly+Endorses+One+Health

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The Commonwealth Health Hub

Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education!

Posted June 10, 2016

Please see: https://www.thecommonwealth-healthhub.net/preparing-society-create-world-need-one-health-education/

June 9, 2016    For Immediate Release

Contacts for Media, Interested Project Planning Participants, Individuals and/or Organizations:

George Lueddeke, PhD, Chair, One Health Education Task Force

 glueddeke@aol.com     Tel: (+44) 023 8042 8966 Mob.: (+44) 7538 162191 

Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission cstroud@onehealthcommission.org Tel: (+1) 984-500-8593

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Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education!

Two leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission and the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team are partnering to help create and promote a comprehensive global education revolution that supports curriculum innovation on the unifying interconnected health of humans, animals, and the environment that sustains all life on earth.  A Concept paper titled ‘Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education has been released calling for interested parties to step forward to help with planning. The One Health concept encompasses a wide range of global public health and comparative medicine endeavors.

Dr. George Lueddeke, one of the “One Health” educational project leaders and author of a new One Health oriented book on global population health and well-being, said that, “In keeping with the UN 2030 global Agenda for Sustainability, there is an urgent need for collective action by policy-makers, public / private educators, and health professionals to provide global ONE HEALTH learning opportunities across the education spectrum.”  

We must give younger generations in both low and high income nations “a better deal” for helping to shape a sustainable world, one that is being tested severely by a threatened environment, conflicts, inequities, poverty, ideological extremes, and consumerism. Time is running short. As one example, data from the Living Planet Index (2014) should “make us stop and think”: “in less than two human generations, population sizes of vertebrate species have dropped by half. These are the living forms that constitute the fabric of the ecosystems which sustain life on earth and the barometer of what we are doing to our planet, our only home.”

“It is becoming increasingly clear that realigning our relationship with the planet and ourselves  rests not with individuals or groups who follow their own narrow self- interests - corporate, political, ideological - but with people who value collaborative approaches to these challenges and who embrace a bolder, broader more hopeful scope of human existence within a sustainable world”, Lueddeke said.

The two groups will work closely with global partners (social, economic, environmental) and support One Health projects led by teachers who want to make a difference.  Adequate funding is being sought and would be made available for innovative curriculum development and implementation beginning in primary/secondary schools and extending through graduate and professional education.

A small pre-project proposal conference is being organized with a goal of achieving consensus on a strong plan to fund the envisioned global learning program. The longer term aim is to establish a multi-dimensional coordinating mechanism to define project parameters, encourage project proposals, prioritize and allocate funding for One Health themed curriculum development projects at local, national and regional levels and evaluate outcomes worldwide.

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About the initiators:

The One Health Commission is a globally focused 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting improved health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants and the environment. Committed to creating unifying interactions and opportunities between animal health, human health and planetary health, it is a gateway for the active exchange of One Health-related knowledge, sharing of resources and collaborative projects that reach beyond disciplinary boundaries. Working to train the next generation of One Health leaders, the Commission seeks to ‘Connect’ One Health Advocates, to ‘Create’ networks and teams that work together across disciplines to ‘Educate’ about One Health and One Health issues. It does this by leading and facilitating active One Health education initiatives around the world. It is the parent organization for the One Health Education Task Force.   www.onehealthcommission.org

The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team was originally established in 2006-2007.  The One Health Initiative website, originated October 2008, has been called "the international clearing house for significant One Health information" and by some the "New York Times of One Health.” Its world-wide circulation has been strengthened by its up-to-date One Health News, Publications and Upcoming Events postings relative to animal, human and environmental health.  It is currently estimated to be accessed monthly by roughly 20,000 individual visitors from over 150 countries.  The OHI website is known to have had at least 119 reciprocal links worldwide.  Among the leading high profile search engines the One Health Initiative website is listed first or among the first when either “One Health Initiative” or “One Health” are searched. www.onehealthinitiative.com

One Health EcoHealth 2016

December 3-7, 2016, Melbourne, Australia

The 4^th International One Health Congress & 6^th Biennial Congress of the International Congress for Ecology and Health

Please see important Abstract Submissions Notice:

http://oheh2016.org/abstract-submission/

South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)

Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education

George R. Lueddeke, Gretchen E. Kaufmann, Laura H. Kahn, Rosina C. Krecek, A. Lee Willingham, Cheryl M. Stroud, Johann M. Lindenmayer, Bruce Kaplan, Lisa A. Conti, Thomas P. Monath, John Woodall

Lueddeke G, Kaufmann G, Kahn L, Krecek R, Willingham A, Stroud C, Lindenmayer J, Kaplan B, Conti L, Monath T, Woodall J. Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education. SEEJPH 2016, Vol. 6. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-122

Abstract

Growing concerns about a threatened environment, conflicts, inequities, poverty, ideological extremes, and consumerism  are all indicative of a pressing need to reflect on the global status quo and to find constructive and long-term, sustainable strategies for planet and people. The need to give the younger generation “a better deal” for helping to shape a sustainable world has been embraced by the global One Health Commission (OHC) in association with the One Health Initiative (OHI). Envisioning a program that provides funding for national and global One Health-themed educational projects, One Health leaders - in collaboration with partners - call for collective action by legislators, public / private educators, and public health professionals to support the development and implementation of progressive and comprehensive global One Health learning opportunities. One Health (and well-being) projects led by teachers who want to make a difference could begin in primary/secondary schools and extend through graduate and professional education. The overall intent of the concept paper is to raise awareness about the urgent need for the development  and to explore the concept further through a small pre-project proposal conference  (possibly off and/or on-line) with a view to fleshing out a strong plan to fund the envisioned global learning program. ...

Acknowledgement:

This commentary was first published in the South Eastern Journal of Public Health, Volume VI, 2016

Permission granted to re-publish in other journals by the exec editor:

Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH

Section of International Public Health (S-IPH)

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Bielefeld

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http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/122

BioMed Central – Open Access: June 3, 2016

Teaching disease ecology to expose the medical professionals of the future to One Health

Krisztian Magori [PhD] explains how he used a disease ecology capstone class to expose the medical professionals of the future to the concepts and topics of disease ecology and One Health including relevant student research projects. …

Krisztian Magori

Editor at BugBitten

Read more at http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2016/06/03/teaching-disease-ecology-expose-medical-professionals-future-one-health/