One Health News

An Exemplary One Health Leader – Dean Michael D. Lairmore, UC Davis (USA) Noted by American College of Veterinary Pathologists One Health Posted in Fact Sheets https://goo.gl/rByYZW With increasing awareness of the inter-relatedness of human and veterinary health as well as the ecosystem, a collaborative initiative is underway incorporating veterinarians, physicians, public and environmental health experts, and researchers to advance health…

  Center for One Health & the Environment See more complete information at https://sbe.umaine.edu/school/center-for-one-health-the-environment/ and https://sbe.umaine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2015/10/2014-EM-Res-Groden_et_al1.pdf School of Biology and Ecology A new interdisciplinary Center for One Health & the Environment at the University of Maine builds on current strengths, and is focused on climate change and emerging issues in animal, plant, and human health.…

One Health includes Comparative Medicine                    …see One Health Umbrella http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/OneHealth2   The Answer to Cancer Might Be Walking Beside Us   See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raif_9STMYM&feature=youtu.be   Published on May 31, 2017 Colorado State University and Rocky Mountain PBS teamed up to produce a new documentary featuring researchers and clinicians across the country who all have one…

Experienced Texas A & M University (USA) One Health Professor Enhances a Dynamic One Health Program   Since 2015, Rosina (Tammi) C. Krecek, FRSSAf, BS, MS, PhD, MAP, MBA has been Research Professor of Global One Health and Interim Assistant Dean of One Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), Texas…

George Washington University GW One Health Team Wins in One Health Day Student Competition https://smhs.gwu.edu/news/gw-one-health-team-wins-one-health-day-student-competition GW One Health team members, Mallory Epting, Jeffrey Jacob, and Laura Venner with their mentor, *Bernadette Dunham, DVM, PhD *Dr. Dunham is a member of the One Health Initiative Team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php. Ashley Rizzardo June 5, 2017 Congratulations to…

Global ‘One Health Day’ Student Awards 2016 The One Health Day Coordinating Team (https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/eventscalendar/one_health_day/coordinating_team/) comprised of members of the One Health Commission, the One Health Platform Foundation and the One Health Initiative pro bono team was very pleased to have received numerous outstanding entries for the 2016 Student Event Competition. Competing groups had to meet…

    Important New One Health textbook published… The Principles and Practice of Q Fever: The One Health Paradigm   SEE: https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=60886&osCsid=b6e8f4cdab27b562044ec45faf53fe9f OR https://goo.gl/HMMMb7   Nova Science Publishers   “A significant amount of comprehensive information based on the One Health approach is shared with the readers. We expect that the contents of this …”    …

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University of Washington – Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Center for One Health Research Blog One Health and Planetary Health See complete article in link: http://deohs.washington.edu/cohr/blog/2017/15/one-health-and-planetary-health In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation released a major report about the state of the planet, called Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch. This document outlines the…

In light of the preceding NEWS item from The Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) http://www.cpme.eu/:   “The professional and student organisations representing the Medical Doctors, the Dentists, the Veterinarians and their students sent a letter to the Deans of medical, dental and veterinary schools across Europe inviting them to work collaboratively under the ‘One Health’ concept to tackle current…

European medical schools urged to adopt ‘One Health’ approach https://goo.gl/oN9fEt and SEE letter https://goo.gl/kxppL4 co-signed by six organisations including the Standing Committee of European Doctors and the European Medical Students Association Univadis While the One Health approach has recently gained recognition in Europe and worldwide, the organisations said its application in education needs to …  …

  Health ministers in G20 Summit commit to address antimicrobial resistance Down To Earth Magazine (press release) (registration) (blog) In accordance with the fact that AMR is a One–Health issue, the Declaration extends support to AMR-specific mandates of the WHO, Food and … See: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health-ministers-commit-to-address-antimicrobial-resistance-in-g20-summit-57914 or https://goo.gl/PQiSLc.  

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One Health 67th Annual James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man (DIN) May/24/2017 – May/26/2017 Irving, Texas, USA   “DIN is a not-for-profit conference and serves as a forum for the presentation of epidemiological investigations, clinical case studies, basic and applied research, and other topics in emerging and current zoonotic and environmentally-acquired infectious diseases.   The…

        One Health: New Term, Ancient Concept “The One Health Initiative website has been serving as a global repository for all news and information pertaining to One Health since 2008.” By Physician Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP  See more at: http://www.americanveterinarian.com/news/one-health-new-term-ancient-concept “… To fill the communications gap between physicians and veterinarians, my…

Prominent U.S. Tuberculosis Expert and One Health Leader Dies Dr. Charles O. Thoen, a veterinarian internationally recognized for his extensive knowledge and expertise in the scientific field of tuberculosis and an avid One Health leader/advocate died unexpectedly Monday, May 8, 2017.  Notably, Dr. Thoen earned his PhD degree following a fellowship in microbiology research at…

New Online Biology Dictionary includes One Health Reference biologydictionary.net  “Biology is the study of living things. It is broken down into many fields, reflecting the complexity of life from the atoms and molecules of biochemistry to the interactions of millions of organisms in ecology. This biology dictionary is here to help you learn about all…

      Announcement: 5th International One Health Congress travels to Canada in June 2018   Join the One Health research and policy community at the 5th International One Health Congress, which will be held in Saskatoon, Canada, on 22 – 25 June 2018. The congress is organized by the One Health Platform and the…

First Physician in History to Serve on American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) Board May 1, 2017 — The American Veterinary Epidemiology Society’s (AVES) http://www.avesociety.org/current President and Executive Director, Dr. Craig N. Carter formerly announced today that Dr. Laura H. Kahn http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/LauraKahnBiography%20Feb%202015.pdf accepted an appointment serving on the AVES board of directors.  Dr. Kahn will be…

World Health Organization (WHO) – See full notice: http://www.who.int/features/qa/one-health/en/ “One Health April 2017 What is ‘One Health’? ‘One Health’ is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes. The areas of work in which a One Health approach…