One Health News

Left to right: Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD, President, American Veterinary Epidemiology Society, Thomas P. Monath, MD,and Georgette D. Wilson, DVM, Director, Scientific & Medical Affairs, The Hartz Mountain Corporation Extraordinary One Health Leader Awarded Gold Headed Cane (USA):an internationally recognized physician virologist and vaccine developer   Dr. Thomas P. Monath [MD, FACP, FASTMH] received…

Notice: One Health Newsletter – Volume 8, Issue 2 – Published July 3, 2015 (USA)   SEE: http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/misc/egh/One%20Health%20Newsletter/OHNL_Volume_8_Issue2.pdf   An outstanding internationally distributed “One Health” publication product of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida (USA) http://epi.ufl.edu   Accessible online via: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php, (One Health Initiative Home page tab)  and/or http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/news/one-health-newsletter/ This quarterly newsletter…

PHYSICIANS’ World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) issues One Health Letter of Support – July 2, 2015   2nd July 2015   Laura H Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP Bruce Kaplan, DVM Thomas P. Monath, MD One Health Initiative kkm@onehealthinitiative.com   Dear colleagues Please find a letter of support, to the OneHealth Initiative, from WONCA –…

One Health Community Addresses Advocacy Letter to the White House (USA) Dated: June 30, 2015     “…On behalf of the community of One Health advocates and stakeholders, the One Health Commission, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and the signatories below, writes to urge creation of One Health platforms in both the United States (U.S) and the…

Former Mayor—Environmental Health Activist—Urges President and U.S. Government(s) Adoption of One Health Principles   June 9, 2015 – In a recent letter to the White House, One Health Initiative Team Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php member Nancy Chaney, RN, MS, former mayor, City of Moscow, Idaho (USA) urged prompt across the board adoption of the One Health…

The relevance of “One Health” to South Africa Brigid Letty MSc.Agric1, Alan Rowe BVSc.2, Nkululeko Manci MBChB 3 and Debbie Rowe CPDH4 1Principal Scientist – Institute of Natural Resources http://inr.org.za/ 2State Veterinarian – KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development 3Medical Manager – St Apollinaris Hospital, Centocow Mission 4Director – Creighton Sunflower Health Education and…

NAP Supports the One Health Commission June 15, 2015 The PresidentThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC  20500 Dear Mr. President: On behalf of the National Academies of Practice (NAP), representing 14 health care professions (Audiology, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Speech & Language Pathology,…

One Health approach to fight Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)… WWS (Woodrow Wilson School – Princeton University, USA) Reacts: How to Fight MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) Jun 16, 2015—By: B. Rose Huber—Source: Woodrow Wilson School   Since mid-May, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has infected 150 and killed 16 people in South Korea. Now,…

Excellent One Health Program Practiced at University of Pennsylvania’s College of Veterinary Medicine (“Penn Vet”) – Philadelphia, PA (USA) The Future of Veterinary Medicine “At Penn Vet, we are driven from the perspective of One Health: humans, the environment, animals, living together harmoniously.  Uniquely trained in comparative biology, veterinarians are the only members of the clinical profession…

NOTICE: International One Health Congress 2018: call for expression of interest “Since 2011, three International One Health Congresses have been organized on a biennial basis. The fourth edition will be held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2016.   In order to ensure the continuity of the International One Health Congresses, the One Health Platform will be…

“MediLabSecure Project” Utilizes and Strongly Endorses One Health Concept Approach – Paris, France   Submitted to the One Health Initiative website June 5, 2015   “Dear Members of the One Health Initiative, The European Union (EU)-funded MediLabSecure project (2014-2017; www.medilabsecure.com) aims at consolidating a laboratory network on the emerging viruses that are pathogens for humans…

World Veterinary Association/World Medical Association Global Conference on One Health – Report and Presentations The WVA/WMA Global Conference on One Health which was held in Madrid, Spain on May 21-22, 2015, brought together 330 delegates from 40 countries around the world to discuss the One Health Concept. Introduction On 21 and 22nd of May 2015,…

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 02, 2015 White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship The White House is convening the Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 to bring together key human and animal health constituencies involved in the development, promotion, and implementation of activities to improve…

White House One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship  “On June 2, 2015, the White House hosted the One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship to bring together more than 100 key human and animal health leaders involved in antibiotic stewardship—the development, promotion, and implementation of activities to promote optimal use of antibiotics nationwide. The leaders represented…

A One Health issue… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2015   ADVISORY: White House to Host Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship WASHINGTON, DC – On Tuesday, June 2, the Administration will host the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship.  The event will bring together key Federal and private sector constituencies involved in the development, promotion, and implementation…

Currently available internationally:   Excellent ONE HEALTH Publication Resources Available for Submitting One Health Articles Four One Health Journals and One Newsletter:   Infection Ecology and Epidemiology – The One Health Journal (Sweden) http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee Veterinary Sciences – (Switzerland) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci International Journal of One Health – (India) http://www.onehealthjournal.org/  One Health – The Official Journal of the…

In progress: A physician and veterinarian Anesthesiolology Conference – “in the Spirit of One Health, One Medicine, One Anesthesia…”  SIAARTIVet + SIAARTI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONE ANESTHESIA: FOCUS ON SEDATION – Naples, Italy (May 25, 26  2015)  http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Brochure12_05_2015.pdf May 25th and 26th 2015 NAPOLI, Accademia Pontaniana, via Mezzocannone 8 This conference builds on the newborn Study…

American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) President-elect Endorses One Health concept Provided to One Health Initiative website May 19, 2015 “I have always been a strong supporter of the One Health concept. As the human population continues to increase and expand across the globe, the interconnection of people, animals and our environment becomes more significant and…

Program Updates – Historic World Veterinary Association/World Medical Association Global Conference on ONE HEALTH  May 21-22, 2015 – Madrid, Spain   Final program of the conference (click here for the program in English and here for the program in Spanish) Speakers biography and presentation abstract booklet (click here for the program) Poster abstract booklet (click here for the program)   World Veterinary Association http://www.worldvet.org/ —…

“ONE HEALTH”, a significant international public health/comparative medicine paradigm shift!  Why? How?   “The One Health Initiative is a movement to forge co-equal, all inclusive collaborations between physicians, osteopaths, veterinarians, dentists, nurses and other scientific-health and environmentally related disciplines, including the American Medical Association, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Nurses Association,…