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SEE: https://www.nuigalway.ie/ryaninstitute/researchcentresandclusters/coh/# The One Health concept recognises that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recognise that adopting a ‘One Health’ approach is key to meeting grand challenges to our…

Reminder: A decade ago (2012), but still applicable and important! One Health Initiative Archived website: World Medical Association (WMA) and World Veterinary Association (WVA) via The World Medical Association https://www.wma.net/blog-post/one-health-initiative-wma-and-wva/    

"the need for an on-going integrated One Health approach to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, research, and response efforts." 

This June the 28th 2022 annual ISRDS conference on sustainability will have a research track on One Health and ethics. This is a great opportunity to establish ethics as a core part of One Health approaches and get together in forming the research field. The call summarize this as: “One way to reach the UN…

SEE: https://conta.cc/3GC2huu January 16, 2022 Open Call for individuals to serve as Editors for upcoming new collection of ‘One Health’ resources being launched in 2022 by CABI https://tinyurl.com/y7v7bhth This message is being jointly shared on behalf of the CABI One Health Resources Initiative by the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, One Health Brasil, the One…

January 12, 2022 Going deeper into whether a civil dialogue can help address the global challenges we face – what History teaches us [e.g. One Health approach] SEE: Could More Civility Change Radical Behavior? – Impakter by Richard Seifman  January 12, 2022 in Health, Society

SEE: https://theconversation.com/understanding-how-animals-become-infected-with-covid-19-can-help-control-the-pandemic-173978 “COVID-19 has been found in wild, captive and domesticated animals. To understand and combat the disease, a One Health approach that considers …

January 5, 2022 – The One Health Initiative team is proud to announce that Claude Forthomme, BA, MA, Senior Editor and columnist, Impakter magazine (United Kingdom) has joined the One Health Initiative (OHI) Advisory Board (Hon.). Ms. Forthomme, a well known writer and economist, is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University School of Economics (USA). …

SEE: https://www.miragenews.com/australia-leads-global-efforts-to-prevent-702114/ Business  4 JAN 2022 9:14 AM AEDT The Hon David Littleproud MP Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia ​​​​• Estimated 1.7 million undiscovered viruses in mammal and bird hosts. Many exist in wildlife and feral animal species and are evolving into different variants which pose an unknown level of risk to humans, animals,…

  Seminars on A Health organized by ICBAS and several RESEARCH UNITS of UP, with the intervention of Dr. Laura H. Kahn (Co-founder of one health initiative). See the event here  SEE: https://onehealth.icbas.up.pt/

HEALTH The Concept of One Health Turns Global in 2021: How it was Born BY CRAIG CARTERAND1 OTHERS  DECEMBER 25, 2021 2021 was a special year for One Health, the year in which it turned global and became a public health… READ MORE

The minds and books behind One Health, the guiding principle adopted this year by the G7, G20 and World Health Assembly to reform public health SEE: https://impakter.com/concept-one-health-global-how-born/ 

23 December 2021  Health A $10 million contribution from the United States will assist the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its work on COVID-19 response and addressing threats to human, animal and environmental health, including future pandemics.   “The funding, announced on Thursday, will support the UN agency’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, part of its…

SEE: https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20211221/should-we-worry-about-animals-with-covid19 By Dan Teres, MD      Diana Stone, MPH, DVM, PhD      Martin Strosberg, MPH, PhD Conclusions: The animal-human interface The likelihood of zoonotic transmission from animal to human of a mutant SARS-CoV-2 strain is unclear. What is clear is that we need to encourage and support surveillance and monitoring of both domestic and…

Home  Society  Climate Change Excerpts from George Lueddeke’s latest book SURVIVAL: One Health, One Planet, One Future  Editor’s Note: After “War and Peace?”, “Close to the Edge: Climate Change: Focus on Africa, Asia and the Coastal Poor”,  “The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Intelligence Era: What Next?” and “One Health and Wellbeing (OHW) – Inspiring a Global Unity…

A total of 27 other organisations across the country will also be part of this consortium. SEE: https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2021/dec/11/gandhi-medical-college-part-of-one-health-consortium-2394189.html

SEE: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/eu-one-health-report-drop-reported-zoonotic-diseases-humans-and-foodborne-outbreaks-2020 Campylobacteriosis was the most reported zoonosis in the EU in 2020, with 120,946 cases compared to more than 220,000 the previous year. It was followed by salmonellosis, which affected 52,702 people compared to 88,000 in 2019. The number of reported foodborne outbreaks also fell by 47%. These findings are based on the annual…

Rx One Health Field Institute 2022 June 19 – July 2, 2022 | California APPLY NOW! Scholarships Available Join us! BUILD your One Health skills and knowledge base while exploring California’s vibrant and diverse ecosystems. LEARN about biodiversity conservation, pathogen transmission, health inequities, epidemiology, infectious disease surveillance, biosafety, biosecurity, laboratory and research methods, agriculture, land-to-sea pathogen transmission, communications, community…

SEE: Public-Ecosystem Health_Call for Noms_List Serv Flyer_updated and https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/integrating-public-and-ecosystem-health-systems-to-foster-resilience-in-social-ecological-systems-a-workshop-to-identify-research-to-bridge-the-knowledge-to-action-gap Provided by: Julie Liao, PhD (she/her) Director, Forum on Microbial Threats Program Officer Board on Global Health | Health and Medicine Division (202) 334-2191 | jliao@nas.edu

 SEE https://impakter.com/health-threats-can-we-do-better-in-the-future/ “… The Need for a Geopolitical Shift in Global Health In September 2021, this video message from the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom was recorded for “Toward a pandemic treaty”, a meeting hosted by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, USA. He broadly delineated what was needed for…