One Health Archived Publications

Conservation Through Public Health

http://www.ctph.org/node/180
 

Voice of America reporter Peterson Ssendi in Kampala profiles wildlife veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, an Ashoka Fellow and the work of her group, “Conservation Through Public Health.”

In Uganda, a conservationist is teaching members of poor rural communities that they have more in common with the neighboring wildlife than they think. She says, for example, that disease can be transferred between people and animals. And she says well-kept wildlife sanctuaries can provide an income for the community.
Download MP3 interview at: http://128.11.143.113/english/Africa/2008-01-17-voa38.cfm

Provided Jan 23, 2003 by:

Justin Sobota, MS, DVM

MIT News

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/colon-cancer-0119.html

Provided January 23, 2009 by:

Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACVPM

Executive Director, American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges

1101 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 301
Washington DC 20005-3536

The New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory (NE-RBL)

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Tufts University, Grafton, MA

www.tufts.edu/vet/rbl

Provided by:

Saul Tzipori, DVM, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, NE-RBL Director

Distinguished Professor of Microbiology/Infectious Diseases

Agnes Varis University Chair in Science and Society

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Tufts University

North Grafton, MA 01536

 AVMA representative sought for one-health steering committee

“Dr. Roger K. Mahr, the previous AVMA representative, has agreed to serve as the steering committee's project director, which is an administrative staff role.”

The late Dr. Ron Davis, physician and immediate past president of the American Medical Association was honored by a "One-health wonders" column in the January 15, 2009 Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Ron was a valued One Health Supporter and friend collectively and individually of the Kahn-Kaplan-Monath One Health team.  He was a giant in the One Health movement and shall be sorely missed.

January 12, 2009

ONE HEALTH NEWSLETTER - 2009 Winter Issue Published

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html

 “The 2009 Winter Issue of the One Health Newsletter intentionally solicited various points of view on the judicious use of antimicrobials in an effort to promote discussion on this important and controversial subject.  Indeed, in the spirit of One Health we encourage prospective authors to express different points of view on a variety of public health and clinical health topics, not just antibiotic use. ” 

Mary Echols, DVM, MPH, Editor

One Health Newsletter

Permission to publish provided by Robert E. Kahn, PhD on January 13, 2009

Permission to publish provided by Robert E. Kahn, PhD on January 13, 2009

A poster prepared for the American Society of Microbiology

Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies

Website Report

 On December 31, 2008 the Institute of Medicine [IOM] released a workshop report in response to their 5 meetings held since June 25, 2008 on 'Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin.'  For information on the meetings,

see:   http://www.iom.edu/?ID=54653.  There is also a link to access the

full report.

The description of the book is "One of the biggest threats today is the uncertainty surrounding the emergence of a novel pathogen or the re-emergence of a known infectious disease that might result in disease outbreaks with great losses of human life and immense global economic consequences. Over the past six decades, most of the emerging infectious disease events in humans have been caused by zoonotic pathogens-those infectious agents that are transmitted from animals to humans.

Noteworthy changes in the patterns of human and animal contact in recent years make conditions ripe for global outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.

Some of these diseases, including AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Avian Influenza, have already caused global health and economic crises. With one billion people crossing international borders every year, animals and animal products including meat traveling great distances to reach their final destinations, and disproportionate population growth in countries with the highest poverty rates, new outbreaks could emerge with devastating health, economic, environmental, agricultural, and sociopolitical results.

In June 2008, the Institute of Medicine's and National Research Council's Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin convened a workshop. This workshop addressed the reasons for the transmission of zoonotic disease and explored the current global capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance. In particular, workshop participants discussed methods of disease surveillance as a way of detecting outbreaks of zoonotic disease in humans, outbreaks of diseases in animals, and how these data can inform the responses to these outbreaks or perhaps prevent outbreaks in the future. The committee will follow up these discussions with a consensus study with its recommendations for sustainable global capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance and response, to be released June 2009."

http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3783/54653/60957.aspx

Provided by:

Tracy S. DuVernoy, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

Department Head, Surveillance Operations & Communications, HJF

Department of Defense

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center

2900 Linden Lane

Silver Spring, MD  20910

phone:  301-319-3297

Fax:  301-319-9213

cell:  202-471-0862

DSN:  285

email:  tracy.duvernoy@amedd.army.mil or tracy.duvernoy@us.army.mil