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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs
May 15, 2025
Workforce The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response. “While the Trump administration has walked back a small number of its layoffs in the public health field, it did so only after requiring an equal number of employees to be cut going forward. The Centers for Disease…
View ArticleOne Health: Burkina Faso builds wildlife surveillance capacity to combat future pandemics
May 15, 2025
“In Burkina Faso, the fight against pandemic threats starts with stronger surveillance and skilled frontline workers. With support from the Pandemic Fund, the country is investing in its people and systems to better detect and respond to health threats. As zoonotic diseases continue to account for most human infections and emerging outbreaks, building the implementation…
View ArticleOman News Agency (MOH) Launches EBS Project, Public Health Empowerment Program
May 14, 2025
“… Dr. Al-Ma’ani stated that Event-Based Surveillance is not just a system—it rather represents a qualitative leap toward smart and early detection of unconventional health signals, through integration among the health, environmental, and animal sectors, and by activating the ‘One Health’ approach. …” “… As part of the program’s agenda, Dr. Adel Al-Wahibi, Director of…
View ArticleTO: The Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States – PLEA for Health & Human Services (HHS) reform
May 12, 2025
TO: The Honorable Donald J. Trump President of the United States RE: One Health Initiative Team PLEA via (21) Kahn-Kaplan-Monath (@OneHealthNews) / X (back-to-back Tweets) May 12, 2025: Hasty retreat is essential to partially salvage President Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again!!” goals. Mr. President, we urge seeking scientific re-direction from remaining traditional public health…
View ArticleRecord-Breaking Participation at Kenneth A. Suarez (KAS) Research Day on Downers Grove Campus – Midwestern University (USA)
May 9, 2025
Over 200 student-led posters showcased innovation, collaboration, and Midwestern University’s commitment to research excellence SEE: Record-Breaking Participation at KAS Research Day on Downers Grove Campus | Midwestern University https://www.midwestern.edu/news-stories/record-breaking-participation-kas-research-day-downers-grove-campus
View ArticleCDC disease detectives exempted from Trump hiring freeze, averting cut to program
May 7, 2025
“The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said, averting a feared halving of the highly selective fellowship. Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of its Epidemic Intelligence Service officers to replace…
View ArticleAmerican Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) President Announces 2025 Awards
May 6, 2025
Dr. Karen Becker, President of the American Veterinary One Health Society (previously called American Veterinary Epidemiology Society – AVES) began her second term in that esteemed office by announcing names of honorary awards to prominent national and international One Health, public health, veterinary medical and related health field notables on May 6, 2025. These coveted…
View ArticleAfter paying people to leave, USDA scrambles to fill positions : NPR
May 4, 2025
“As the Trump administration marches forward with its plan to dramatically slash the federal workforce, agencies are bidding farewell to employees who have agreed to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September. But at least one agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is already scrambling to…
View ArticleProgress report on University of Georgia’a (USA) new medical school
May 2, 2025
“… “My vision,” says Zavros, “is that this will be the center that other institutions will look to as an example of how to successfully connect biomedical research and medicine in away that will rapidly translate scientific discovery to the patient.” Zavros will continue her work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers focused on solving…
View ArticleVaccines Do Not Cause Autism – Public Health Communications Collaborative
May 1, 2025
SEE: Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism – Public Health Communications Collaborative https://publichealthcollaborative.org/communication-tools/vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_4bOG5cgkbTD9UCXm4PjMgILcN8POimMaLWpC5dPKmHroId9eQXWxb0HIXiMU_fTiP28U9vjU3GGYwkZIFu-u6Ttl62Q&_hsmi=359521269&ut
View ArticleVirginia Professor Signs Open Letter of Concern
April 27, 2025
The commission’s approach imitates some of the broader goals outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plan. This was a conservative policy agenda prepared for the presidential transition. Both the commission and Project 2025 emphasize increased transparency in health data, redirected research funding to focus on root causes of illness, and skepticism towards the current…
View ArticleA One Health approach to bird flu [potentially evolving Pandemic Threat]
April 27, 2025
Apr 21, 2025 Learn how a One Health approach to zoonotic diseases like bird flu is important in an ever-changing environment, with *Dr. Peter Rabinowitz (UW DEOHS). SEE: A One Health approach to bird flu YouTube·UW DEOHS·Apr 21, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLg8xymNc0 *Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH – Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Department of…
View ArticleBreast cancer drug Supinoxin shows potential for small-cell lung cancer in new tests
April 26, 2025
Breast cancer drug Supinoxin shows potential for small-cell lung cancer in new tests Purdue University scientists have identified the Supinoxin small-molecule drug as a possible new therapy for small-cell lung cancer. Elizabeth Tran, professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture, and co-principal investigator Bennett Elzey, associate research professor of comparative pathobiology in the College…
View ArticleA plan to protect lives and livelihoods from a mosquito-borne killer | CEPI
April 25, 2025
“This is the most advanced stage of testing a human Rift Valley fever vaccine has ever reached in an outbreak-prone area,” said Peter Hart, CEPI’s Rift Valley fever Programme Lead. “Of course, CEPI’s priority for RVF is developing a safe and effective human vaccine, but the fact this vaccine may be able to protect both…
View ArticleHealth and Human Services (HHS) – USA – Cuts Funding for NIH-Based Women’s Health Initiative Threatening Decades-Long Study
April 24, 2025
Key Takeaways The WHI, a landmark study on women’s health, faces defunding, threatening its regional centers and data collection efforts by September 2025. The WHI’s hormone therapy trial has significantly impacted clinical practice, preventing numerous breast cancer and cardiovascular disease cases. SHOW MORE Following the Trump Administration’s mandate to cut $2.6 billion in NIH contracts,…
View ArticleScientists identify potential treatments for emerging zoonotic pathogens
April 23, 2025
“… This research opens the door to finding treatments for Nipah and Hendra. According to the World Health Organization, 40–75% of people infected with these diseases die. “Henipaviruses are lethal pathogens,” said Bohmann. “They’re endemic to animal populations in Asia and Australia, but spillover events to livestock and humans occur regularly on a seasonal basis, which is…
View ArticleTrump Administration’s HHS Cuts: Creating Waste And Inefficiency, Not Eliminating Them | Health Affairs
April 22, 2025
“ … Secretary Kennedy’s personnel reductions and planned reorganization of HHS already threaten Americans’ health, as critical programs that respond to specific needs have been cut. But the long-term consequences go well beyond those of shuttering individual programs that respond to specific needs. Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the Department’s broader capacity to analyze,…
View ArticleWithout the United States, WHO Member’s Draft Pandemic Agreement — Vax-Before-Travel
April 20, 2025
Disease X preparations ongoing in the United States Geneva (Vax-Before-Travel News) – “After more than three years of negotiations, World Health Organization (WHO) Member States recently took a significant step forward, making the world safer from pandemics by drafting an agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May 2025. Announced on April 16, 2025, this WHO proposal…
View ArticleCountries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations Countries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations | UN News
April 17, 2025
“Key elements of the proposed agreement include a commitment to a “One Health” approach to pandemic prevention, stronger national health systems, setting up a coordinating financial mechanism, and creating a globally coordinated supply chain and logistics network for health emergencies.” SEE: Countries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations | UN News https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162301
View ArticleCountries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations
April 17, 2025
“Key elements of the proposed agreement include a commitment to a “One Health” approach to pandemic prevention, stronger national health systems, setting up a coordinating financial mechanism, and creating a globally coordinated supply chain and logistics network for health emergencies.” SEE: Countries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations | UN News https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162301
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“One Health – One Medicine”: linking human, animal and environmental health
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History of the One Health Initiative team and website (April 2006 through September 2015) and the One Health Initiative website since October 1, 2008 … revised to June 2020 and again to date February 2021
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Vaccines for zoonoses: a One Health paradigm
SciTech Europa Quarterly (March 2018) – Issue 26
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Pan European Networks SciTech Europa Quarterly
SciTech Europa Vaccines for zoonoses: a one Health paradigm – Pages 227-229 (Read PDF) “One of the One Health Initiative team’s co-founders and leaders is an internationally-recognized eminent physician…
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