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"... Around two-thirds of CGIAR’s existing research portfolio is already directly relevant to tackling the coronavirus outbreak. The work of most immediate relevance encompasses four research pillars: food systems, One Health (the human-animal-environment health interface), inclusive public programs for food security and nutrition, and policies and investments for crisis response, economic recovery and improved future…

"It has been a special privilege to serve as the Chair of the One Health Initiative Task Force (OHITF). The concept of One Health is not new and perhaps has even enjoyed stronger endorsement and support in past decades prior to the advent of clinical specialization in human and veterinary medicine. Achieving the end point…

WEBCAST A Pandemic and a Call to Action for One Health: The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] One Health Initiative JUNE 11, 2020 Please Go to bottom of the page on this link for listening to outstanding “One Health” recordings containing excellent explanatory slides: https://www.fda.gov/science-research/fda-grand-rounds/pandemic-and-call-action-one-health-fda-one-health-initiative-06112020-06112020 Webcast Recordings: *Bernadette Dunham, D.V.M., Ph.D. Professorial Lecturer, Milken Institute…

Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP Please LISTEN TO Dr. Kahn’s Leadership Podcast: http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/leadership-during-epidemics-bioterror-attacks-and-other-public-health World leaders have been tested in their ability to protect their citizens against Covid-19, which has upended nearly every facet of society. Stable leadership is needed now more than ever. In this episode, Dr. Laura Kahn shares her take on the skills necessary…

The COVID-19 global pandemic has punctuated the need for taking an integrated One Health approach to fostering and protecting human health and wellbeing. ...

One Health is an approach to understanding the interconnectivity of humans, animals, and the environment, and achieving the best health results for all. One Health initiatives are being supported by global organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and more.

Karl M. Johnson, MD Past Director, Middle America Research Unit National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH Founding Chief, Special Pathogens Branch, CDC (retired) 10 Calle Final Placitas, NM 87043 November 15, 2008 – Eminent virologists, Drs. Karl Johnson (physician) and Fred Murphy (veterinarian) worked at CDC as co-equal investigators, together discovering the etiologic…

The One-Health approach is gaining traction as it enables the collaboration needed across different sectors and disciplines, working at the local, regional, national, and global levels...

Leading past One Medicine/One Health physicians—“Giants”:   Rudolf Virchow, MD (the father of cellular pathology and coined the term “zoonosis”) “Between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines–nor should there be.  The object is different but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine.”  Vichow’s Contributions to Veterinary Medicine: Celebrated Then, Forgotten…

“... Supporting agrobiodiversity and adopting integrated ecosystem-based and One Health approaches provide valuable opportunities to enhance the sustainability of food production systems and are instrumental to the effective management of potential health risks, such as food safety and infectious diseases outbreaks. ...”

“The Biotechnology Innovation Organization and the Council of State Bioscience Associations wrote to the U.S. House and Senate leadership this week to urge support for the Advancing Emergency Preparedness Through One Health Act ... "

Repeat posting of … ProMED Outbreak Reports ProMED Publications https://onehealthinitiative.com/promed-publications/ CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 UPDATE (227): ANIMALS, CAT, DOG, RESEARCH, EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION 1 June 2020 June 2, 2020 VIEW PUBLICATION “Abstract The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has reached nearly every country in the world with extraordinary person-to-person transmission. The most likely original source of the virus…

June 2, 2020 Editor’s note: This article, Part 1 of 2, summarizes oral and poster presentations from the three-day event meeting of the One Health European Joint Program

"The American people and the international community needs to listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci about the Coronavirus Pandemic and his endorsement of utilizing the One Health concept/approach ..."

SEE: https://www.nhpr.org/post/can-stronger-partnerships-between-human-animal-health-experts-prevent-next-covid-19#stream/0 “ … Dutton has become involved in  One Health Initiative, a global effort to integrate human and veterinary medicine. Among its goals:  thwarting zoonotic outbreaks. “There are a variety of international and national organizations that are collaborating on so many levels with the understanding that there is a whole ecosystem of animal health that links…

Peter G. Anderson, DVM, PhD  Gary Roubin, BVSc (equiv. DVM), MB (equiv. MD), PhD Saving lives through “One Health” concept/approach, interdisciplinary scientific research …   Please see https://onehealthinitiative.com/renowned-physician-interventional-cardiologist-endorses-one-health-concept/ posted on current One Health Initiative website and reprinted below:  “ONE HEALTH in Action” – First Flexible Coil Balloon Expandable Intracoronary Stent Development for Humans – Posted…

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Laura H Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP – View bio Bruce Kaplan, DVM – View bio Thomas P. Monath, MD – View bio Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH – View bio Thomas M. Yuill, PhD – View bio Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD – View bio Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD – View bio Becky…

Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises (Praeger Security International) 2nd Edition

... GOF or chimeric research, is also advancing the One Health Initiative that seeks to produce a cross-species vaccine for both human and animals.