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TWO RECENT ‘One Health’ BENCHMARK COMMENTS FROM LEADING INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIAN ORGANIZATION & RESEARCH VIPs   Thursday, May 24, 2018.   TWO RECENT ‘One Health’ BENCHMARK COMMENTS FROM LEADING INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIAN ORGANIZATION & RESEARCH VIPs       Friday, May 11, 2018      Dr. Garth Manning WONCA Chief Executive Officer (CEO)     WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors [physicians]) Newsletter POSTs “One Health” member notice “WONCA http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/ and One Health - “WONCA, the World Organisation of Family Doctors [physicians], now has over 118 Member Organizations in 131 countries and territories with membership of about 500,000 family doctors [physicians]   “WONCA is pleased to be associated with One Health, which is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment. ...”  Original notification to One Health Initiative team of WONCA support/endorsement of One Health in July 2015 https://goo.gl/NT8Aeu.                                                                                   ____________________________________________________     Friday, March 09, 2018       U.S. National Institute of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Addresses One Health   “ ….We have long embraced a one-health paradigm at NIAID, especially in the realm of emerging and re-emerging diseases, most of which are zoonoses and must be studied in the context of the ecosystems humans share with microbes, non-human hosts, vectors, reservoirs and other actors. Many of the research efforts about which I speak and write almost daily fall under the one health rubric…” https://goo.gl/nKVbFF