Two Excellent One Health Opportunities Available

New One Health postdoc for our NIH D43 training grant available http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/FY16%20Duke%20US%20citizen%20postdoctoral%20PD%20ver2.pdf.  The person would be a member of our third research team.  See: http://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/grants/.

Immediate opening for a One Health fellow/postdoc at Duke Kunshan University in China: https://dku.edu.cn/en/about/employment

Provided by:

Dr. Gray is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Hon. Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php

“One Health” public affairs communications appreciation essential for advancing global health via a One Health approach…

Vet. Sci. 2015, 2(3), 135-149; doi:10.3390/vetsci2030135

From “One Health” to “One Communication”: The Contribution of Communication in Veterinary Medicine to Public Health

Micaela Cipolla, DVM, PhD, Luigi Bonizzi, PhD, and Alfonso Zecconi, DVM

Department of Veterinary Science and Public Health (DIVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 10, 20133 Milano, Italy

Published: July 15, 2015

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Abstract

“Despite the fact that health communication is a discipline developed only recently, its importance in human medicine is well recognized. However, it is less considered in veterinary medicine, even if it has the potential to improve public health because of the role of veterinary medicine in public health. For this reason, an One Health approach is useful for communication as well. This approach leads to a “One Communication” concept, which is the result of the synergy in communicative efforts both in human and in veterinary medicine. Our analysis explores the potential of communication in several veterinary fields: institutions, food safety, companion animal and food-producing animal practice, pharmacology and drugs, wildlife fauna and environment. In almost all the areas of veterinary activity communication can contribute to human health. It takes many forms and use several channels, and this variety of communicative opportunities represent a challenge for veterinarians. For this reason, the communication course should be included in the curricula of Veterinary Medicine Schools. As One Health, One Communication is a strategy for expanding collaborations in health communication and it will enhance public health.”

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Integrating interdisciplinary methodologies for One Health: goat farm re-implicated as the probable source of an urban Q fever outbreak, the Netherlands, 2009

Ladbury et al. BMC Infectious Diseases (2015) 15:372 - Open Access

Abstract

“Background: In spring 2008, a goat farm experiencing Q fever abortions (“Farm A”) was identified as the probable source of a human Q fever outbreak in a Dutch town. In 2009, a larger outbreak with 347 cases occurred in the town, despite no clinical Q fever being reported from any local farm. ...

Conclusions: We conclude that the probable source of the 2009 outbreak was the same farm implicated in 2008, despite animal health indicators being absent. Veterinary and public health professionals should consider farms with past as well as current history of Q fever as potential sources of human outbreaks.”

Read full text http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12879-015-1083-9.pdf  

Provided to One Health Initiative website October 8, 2015 by:

Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Education Consultant

College of Veterinary Medicine

Kansas State University

rs_kahn@hotmail.com

Editor’s Note:  Dr. Kahn correctly stated, “Here is a lovely article on the practical application of One Health using interdisciplinary methods to tackle a human disease (Q Fever) that comes from goats in the Netherlands."

Dr. Kahn is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Recently released with One Health Educational recommendations:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015

Envisioning the future of health professional education: workshop summary. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC (USA)

Building a Global Health Workforce

“Key Messages Identified by Individual Speakers and Participants

• Arguments for the curricular redesign toward a One Health concept include the growing risk of disease caused by overcrowding and urbanization, changes in food production and supply systems, and extreme weather conditions, environmental degradation, and the inappropriate use of antibiotics. Solely focusing on human or animal or environmental health would not set a foundation for learning about or addressing these 21st-century challenges. (Fox, Colwell, Olsen, Kahn)

• Learners are being prepared for a health system that no longer exists. (Scrimshaw)  

• There needs to be a functional model for educators to follow that would quickly capture the attention of leaders who possess the power and the money to create real change. Community-based education could be the broad, overarching construct from which everything else follows. (Cox)”

Note: Dr. James G. Fox, a veterinarian, is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

           Dr. Laura H. Kahn, a physician, is a founding member of the One Health Initiative team: see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/LauraKahnBiography%20Feb%202015.pdf and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=History+of+the+One+Health+Initiative+team+%28April+2006+through+September+2015%29+and+the+One+Health+Initiative+website+since+October+1%2C+2008+

World Veterinary Association CELEBRATES THE WORLD ANIMAL DAY - 4 OCTOBER 2015

The World Veterinary Association (WVA) recognizes October 4 as World Animal Day for the importance of animals in enhancing the quality and richness of human lives.

download doc  and see http://www.worldvet.org/news.php?item=261

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 three new issues in 2015:

Vet. Sci., Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2015), Pages 1-42

Vet. Sci., Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2015), Pages 43-110

Vet. Sci., Volume 2, Issue 3 (September 2015), Pages 111-292

Full texts are available free of charge.

Provided to the One Health Initiative website September 28, 2015 by:

Margie Ma

Managing Editor

Veterinary Sciences

Posted One Health Initiative website September 25, 2015

Note: There have been many inquiries requesting an accurate historical account of the “One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team” and the One Health Initiative website...

History of the One Health Initiative team (April 2006 through September 2015) and the One Health Initiative website since October 1, 2008

By One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Jack Woodall, PhD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH

Avian Influenza Update: The Lull before the Storm?

September 22, 2015

A state-by-state analysis of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5 virus outbreaks indicates that the outbreak in the U.S. is over. However, the damage that has been done is considerable. For example, in Iowa alone more than 30 million hens and 1.5 million turkeys have been killed, resulting in a loss of half of the state's poultry flock over a period of six months, as well as an estimated economic loss to the state of $1.2 billion (For further information, see: www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/08/report-finds-12-billion-iowa-avian-flu-damage).

The situation remains disturbing. Already, more than 48 million birds have been killed throughout the country between December 2014 and June 2015, with an economic loss of some $3.3 billion. Furthermore, as Marilyn McKenna has pointed out, "while the flu was originally brought to the US by wild birds migrating down from Canada, most of the spread within the US was due to people and vehicles inadvertently carrying the virus from farm to farm." Extensive biosecurity measures were being taken on a state-by-state and farm-by-farm basis to try to prevent spread of these HPAI viruses. However, it is not over yet; and Dr. John Clifford, Deputy Administrator of APHIS has pointed out: "It's very likely that wild birds will carry the virus with them when they begin migrating south in the fall." See phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/15/bird-flu-2/ ...

...“This outbreak of HPAI caused by several H5 strains is an indication of the need to integrate human, animal and environmental policies in a coherent One Health perspective. Attempts to focus on necessary emergency measures are now essential.” 

Please read entire article at http://www.ceezad.org/resources/index.html

Also see http://www.wattagnet.com/articles/24312.

Provided to One Health Initiative website September 23, 2015 by:

Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Education Consultant

College of Veterinary Medicine

Kansas State University

rs_kahn@hotmail.com

Dr. Kahn is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

September 23, 2015

Prominent U.S. and international individual and organizational One Health Endorsements (multidisciplinary) – June 2011 to July 2015

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Jack Woodall, PhD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH

Important One Health example – Comparative Medicine

Extreme Beta-Cell Deficiency in Pancreata of Dogs with Canine Diabetes

* E-mail: kushner@bcm.edu

Affiliation: McNair Medical Institute, Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Published: June 9, 2015 PLOS One  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129809

• Shields EJ, Lam CJ, Cox AR, Rankin MM, Van Winkle TJ, Hess RS, et al. (2015) Extreme Beta-Cell Deficiency in Pancreata of Dogs with Canine Diabetes. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129809. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129809

  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0129809

   “...In summary, our results advance the field by providing a precise quantitative analysis of islets within the pancreata of diabetic dogs. At previous studies have reported a qualitative loss of islets and β-cells in diabetic dogs [7, 17]. However, there is a notable gap in our knowledge of pancreas and islet morphometry within diabetic dogs. We hope that our results inform future studies to derive better therapies for this common and destructive disease of companion animals, and by extension advance therapies for human type 1 diabetes.”

  Also referred to in U.S. National Library of Medicine MedLinePlus piece, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_154657.html