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An Outstanding International One Health leadership team …   The One Health Platform Foundation (OHP): https://onehealthplatform.com/ohp/who-we-are/management-board “The initiators of the One Health Platform are Prof. Ab Osterhaus (chair), Prof. John MacKenzie (vice-chair) and Mrs. Chris Vanlangendonck (daily management and communication). Together, they form the organization’s management board. Dr. Ab Osterhaus is one of the world’s leading virologists. His interest in the One Health concept culminated in his current position as the CEO of Artemis One Health Foundation and professor of wildlife virology and virus discovery at the Utrecht University. He is also the director of the newly established Center for Infection Medicine and Zoonoses Research at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany. To foster cooperation in all aspects of one health, Ab Osterhaus has joined forces with professor, Dr. John Mackenzie (Curtin University, Australia), who has an outstanding international reputation in the field of microbiology and its impacts on public health. Complementing the scientific knowledge of Ab Osterhaus and John MacKenzie is Chris Vanlangendonck’s expertise in the field of science communication, management strategies and organizational dynamics. She is the director of Semiotics, the Belgium-based agency that provides strategic communication advice to scientists, scientific organizations and academic institutions. …” OHP is currently leading the development and program planning for the 5th International One Health Congress https://onehealthplatform.com/international-one-health-congress in Saskatoon, Canada June 22-25, 2018 in coordination and together with the extraordinary Canadian representative planners and VIPs from the University of Saskatchewan, Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases and Surveillance (SACIDS), University of Calgary and Saskatoon, SK’s On Purpose Events http://onpurpose.ca/about-us/. Note that members of the OHP’s Scientific Advisory Board https://onehealthplatform.com/ohp/who-we-are/scientific-advisory-board include:  Dr. Tom Monath [MD] http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/2ST26BKaplan-8877.pdf who is a co-founding member of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team; Dr. David L. Heymann [MD], Editor, Control of Communicable Diseases Manual and Director, U.K. Health Protection Agency (United Kingdom), Dr. Martyn H. Jeggo [BVetMed, PhD], Director, Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Deakin University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia, and Dr. Lawrence C. Madoff [MD], Editor, ProMED-mail, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and an infectious disease public health physician (USA)... are distinguished members of the OHI team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php. In addition, the OHP is host to the “One Health Official Journal of the One Health Foundation” http://www.journals.elsevier.com/one-health. OHP works collaboratively with the U.S. One Health Commission (OHC) and the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team (OHI) to foster the worldwide yearly “One Health Day”