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One Health Discussed at American Association of Public Health Physician’s (AAPHP) Annual Meeting   At the February 22, 2013 Annual meeting of the American Association of Public Health Physician’s (AAPHP) , President Virginia Dato, MD, MPH noted that lifetime member and One Health liaison representative *Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP presented a cogent One Health talk with power point slides KAHN_AAPHP_02_13_.pdf.  The presentation by Dr. Kahn may be listened to by clicking onto OneHealthInitiative Lecture.mp3.  AAPHP treasurer and past President Dave Cundiff, MD, MPH further briefly commented about the Association’s longtime historical support for One Health dating back to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) adoption of a landmark One Health resolution in 2007.  Dr. Cundiff, a Public Health and Family Practice physician in Washington State (USA) added that the late AMA President Ronald M. Davis, MD (2007) http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/RonDavis,MDMemorialCommentsNov62008.pdf and several other AMA leaders at the time were AAPHP members. [to hear, click on Cundiff.mp3] President Dato recently strongly endorsed One Health http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Dr.DatoAAPHPEndorsementNov222012.pdf.  Also see http://aaphp.org/OneHealth.   *Dr. Kahn is a founding member of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team.