One Health News

  Wednesday, April 08, 2020 Opinion: Coronavirus outbreak stresses need for One Health and animal biotech advancement By Dana O’Brien Executive Vice President, Food & Agriculture Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) SEE: https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/13437-opinion-coronavirus-outbreak-stresses-need-for-one-health-and-animal-biotech-advancement    “… Society was woefully unprepared for this pandemic. We must employ modern approaches to be ready for future outbreaks. One Health collaboration eliminates barriers…

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis reinforces the essential and critical worldwide necessity for highlighting, recognizing and institutionalizing the principles of the One Health concept/approach i.e. “One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.” The One Health concept is a…

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH ▪ Thomas M. Yuill, PhD ▪ Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD ▪ Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD     ‘Shut down those things right away’: Calls…

Life of the Mind Q&A: Laura Kahn *02 on COVID’s Spread and How We Defeat It Princeton Alumni Weekly My book One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance, and the One Health concept that I develop there and elsewhere, shows how human …  SEE: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/qa-laura-kahn-02-covids-spread-and-how-we-defeat-it

How to face the COVID-19 real world threat with masks? An important descriptive means for creating homemade face masks is carefully and intelligently described by physician public health luminary and member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php, Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH – Past President and webmaster American Association of Public Health…

Since its onset, Dr. Fauci has been and is seen as one of the foremost trustworthy public health voices on the coronavirus crisis   U.S. National Institute of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) Physician Director, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Addresses One Health… – first POSTED One Health Initiative website Friday, March 09,…

Follow directives to avoid spreading COVID-19 pictouadvocate.com – Nova Scotia March 25, 2020. Follow directives to avoid spreading COVID-19 pictouadvocate.com The One Health initiative is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations between physicians, osteopathic physicians, veterinarians, … SEE: https://pictouadvocate.com/2020/03/25/follow-directives-to-avoid-spreading-covid-19/  

March 27, 2020 Notice to One Health Initiative team:  Confronting Emerging Zoonoses Book Selected as Related to COVID19 studies                     *“Your Springer Book Confronting Emerging Zoonoses, especially chapters ‘One Health: From Concept to Practice’, ‘Drivers of Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases’, ‘Field Epidemiology and One Health’, and ‘One Health and Food Safety’ were selected to be COVID-19…

HeadScratchers Season 2 Podcast with Dr. Gregory Gray [MD, MPH]: Coronavirus, Why Did it Catch Us Off Guard?  See: https://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/media/podcasts/ Dr. Gray is a longstanding member of the One Health Initiative Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php and an Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) https://www.avesociety.org/.

            The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly escalating globally and putting an enormous strain on medical and other front-line health and community services everywhere. It seems very wrong and irresponsible for us to continue to plan on holding the Congress in Edinburgh in June, and potentially place you and all our…

New study explores the benefits of a One Health approach to investigating antimicrobial resistance … CGIAR In Vietnam, antimicrobial resistance in animal and human health settings poses a significant threat, but one that could be minimised by adopting a One … SEE: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/new-study-explores-the-benefits-of-a-one-health-approach-to-investigating-antimicrobial-resistance-in-vietnam

  March 26, 2020 1:30 – 2:30 PM Lecture Bats, Cats and Coronaviruses: What You Need to Know About COVID-19 (Livestream) https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/bats-cats-and-coronaviruses-what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-19/ Laura H. Kahn, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P.* Princeton University           *A co-founder One Health Initiative team and website  This event will be streamed live. We will have the streaming link. Register All participants are…

Asia Pacific Tripartite OIE ‘One Health‘ seeks to design and implement programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and coordinate to … See Complete notice https://rr-asia.oie.int/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/one-health-leaflet.pdf The FAO, OIE and WHO in Asia and the Pacific (Asia Pacific Tripartite): Uniting under ONE HEALTH to fight health risks at the human, animal and ecosystem…

OHRP City University of Hong Kong The Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice (OHRP) was established at the Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life … SEE: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ph/en/Research/OHRP.html

Q&A: The novel coronavirus outbreak causing COVID-19 Fisher, D., Heymann, D. Q&A: The novel coronavirus outbreak causing COVID-19. BMC Med 18, 57 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01533-w SEE: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01533-w?utm_source=sn&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=BSLB_4_CA01_GL_BSLB_USG_CA01_GL_LSGR_PubH_Coronavirus_LandingPage Open Access Published: 28 February 2020

COVID-19 and veterinary activities designated as essential OIE/WVA Joint Statement https://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media/press-releases/detail/article/covid-19-and-veterinary-activities-designated-as-essential/ In the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Veterinary Association (WVA) jointly draw attention to the roles and responsibilities of the veterinary profession for public health. They highlight the specific veterinary activities which are key…

Announces Support for One Health concept/approach March 15, 2020 TO: One Health Initiative team Please add Symbios Technologies, Inc. to your supporters list. Here is background on the company/technology and potential applications to animal, human, and ecosystem health:  Prototype-stage low-carbon footprint aqueous plasma platform the Symbios Tubular Plasma Reactor (TPR) for water treatment (both disinfection…

 March 12, 2020 RE: COVID-19 (Coronavirus)…a simple idea to increase number of hospital beds/ventilators etc. for Emergency situation(s) Contact: *CRAIG N. CARTER, DVM MS PhD Dipl. ACVPM DSNAP Director & Professor, Epidemiology Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Department of Veterinary Science College of Agriculture, Food & the Environment College of Public Health University of Kentucky 1490 Bull…

Can countries keep up with the spread of Covid-19? swissinfo.ch The “One Health Initiativeexternal link” launched at the beginning of the 2000s underlines that all living beings live together and that our health is … “swissinfo.ch: The world is facing a major challenge with the rapid spread of this new coronavirus from China. How are new…

March 10th, 2020 BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci Gives New Guidance On Coronavirus Spread, Issues Warning By  Ryan Saavedra DailyWire.com  “Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned on Tuesday that people’s lives are going to have to change as the nation deals with the coronavirus, which originated in China,…