One Health News

A Book Review Opinion: “ONE HEALTH From AIDS to Zika” A product of Jones & Bartlett Learning, 5 Wall Street, Burlington, MA 01803, 978-443-5000, info@jblearning.com and www.jblearning.com: SEE http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284136746/ and https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Aids-Richard-Riegelman/dp/1284136744.     By Richard Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD and Brenda Kirkwood, MPH, DrPH Dr. Riegelman, a physician, is Professor and Founding Dean of the Milken…

  Outstanding-Extraordinary U.S. One Health Leader Making Significant One Health Contributions   Cheryl M. Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, U.S. One Health Commission is also the Immediate Past Chair, North Carolina One Health Collaborative (NC OHC), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Immediate Past American…

One Health Lecture: Physicians, Farmers, and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance Iowa State University – College of Veterinary Medicine – Ames, Iowa (USA) March 21, 2017 One Health Lecture In honor of veterinarian Dr. Roger Mahr [DVM] Physicians, Farmers, and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance Presented by physician Dr. Laura H. Kahn [MD, MPH, MPP]…

An Outstanding Editorial One Health perspective…    One What? Why GI [Gastrointestinal] Researchers Should Know and Care About the One Health Initiative” By Rebecca G. Wells, MD [a physician] http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20000220/p26645 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Please read complete article at: http://www.cmghjournal.org/article/S2352-345X(16)30109-6/fulltext Open Access DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmgh.2016.09.008 “The One Health Initiative is an…

An excellent brief One Health presentation… One Health Linking Human, Animal, and Ecosystem Health Ravenswood Media Published on Mar 6, 2017 One Health links human, animal, and ecosystem health into a model for solving today’s health problems. SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pyLm2j3jxI&feature=youtu.be

International One Health Community Notice: The One Health Day Planning Committee is pleased to have received numerous outstanding entries for the 2016 Student Competition award. The decision process has been challenging and therefore judging will be extended through March 2017 with an expected winner announcement date of April 1, 2017. For additional information, please contact:…

  Notable One Health Commission/One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team Joint CollaborationsMch 1, 2017   March 1, 2017 – One Health Happenings! – See complete coverage at http://conta.cc/2mSSozf   Breaking News!!! ·        Executive Report of the November 18 online One Health Education Conference now available. The One Health Commission (OHC) established the One Health Education…

“This report [see below] underscores the implications of the One Health worldview.  Only human strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been isolated from Asian elephants.  These strains have been traced to their origin in the Far East (primarily India and Thailand), and the domestication of Asian elephants.  TB disease of elephants has been shown to be…

  “…it is a great way to explain to MD [physician] colleagues why medical students need to know about One Health!…”.      Open Access Incorporating one health into medical education Please see: http://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-017-0883-6?platform=hootsuite Published: 23 February 2017 *Peter M. Rabinowitz1Email author, Barbara J. Natterson-Horowitz2, Laura H. Kahn3, Richard Kock4 and Marguerite Pappaioanou5 Abstract “One Health is an emerging concept that stresses the linkages between…

*Another Excellent International Open-Access “One Health” Journal Available Journal of Animal Genetics, Transgenesis and Zoonoses Free Publication in 2017 Please see complete notice at: http://www.obm-pc.com/journals/jagtz Journal of Animal Genetics, Transgenesis and Zoonoses (JAGTZ) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal that publishes novel studies, opinions and reviews to advance the science of animal genetics, transgenesis, zoonoses…

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team joins One Health Commission Council of Advisors Council Of Advisors [One Health Commission www.onehealthcommission.org] “The Commission’s founders saw a need to involve many minds in leading its One Health work and thus created a non-voting Council of Advisors (COA). These One Health leaders are called on from time…

An Update on the Comparative Medical Aspects of Bartonella, Including Vector Transmission and Treatment Challenges February 19, 2017 “CONCLUSION: A One Health approach to this emerging infectious disease is clearly needed to define disease manifestations, to establish the comparative infectious disease pathogenesis of this stealth pathogen, to validate effective treatment regimens and to prevent zoonotic…

The first International Conference “Babies and Animals: pediatrician meets vets” Turin, Italy on April 21-22, 2017 https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/177921/405574/

South Texas Tropical Medicine and Vector Borne Disease Conference Happening now: February 15-17, 2017 to the Hilton Garden Inn at South Padre Island, Texas     The Texas Department of State Health Services, Cameron County Department of Health & Human Services, and City of South Padre Island would like to invite you on February 15-17, 2017…

Call for Papers Special Issue of Monash Bioethics Review on ‘One Health Ethics’ Guest Co-Edited by *Zohar Lederman (Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore) and Chris Degeling (Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine (VELIM); University of Sydney) Rationale and Description: One Health (OH) and related approaches such as EcoHealth and Planetary…

One health economics for healthy people, agriculture and environment World Bank Blogs Man in field with cattle. Pakistan. Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank Disease Outbreaks: A Constant Threat The World Health Organization called for … Flag as irrelevant SEE: https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/one-health-economics-healthy-people-agriculture-and-environment

Baylisascaris larva migrans Circular Available (A One Health Zoonotic disease issue…)   “We are pleased to announce the availability of a recently published monograph on Baylisascaris larva migrans, written by *Dr. Kevin Kazacos (Professor Emeritus, Purdue University) as Circular 1412 of the U.S. Geological Survey series on zoonotic diseases. This circular encompasses several decades of…

Two notable public health (USA) ‘One Health’ advocate organizations:   American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) http://www.aaphp.org/OneHealth and…   American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) http://www.avesociety.org/

Subject: 2017 NIAA Annual Conference Focuses on World Food Production [A One Health issue…]   For Immediate Release Contact:  Katie Ambrose                                                         katie.ambrose@animalagriculture.org January 31, 2017                                                                                                           719-538-8843, ext. 14    Globalization of Food Production: A Win-Win Future Environment with Obstacles and Opportunities – NIAA 2017 Annual Conference Announces April 3-6 Agenda NIAA News Release,…

One Health concept highlights collaboration as key to preventing and fighting disease http://www.health.mil/News/Articles/2017/01/24/One-Health-concept-highlights-collaboration-as-key-to-preventing-and-fighting-disease From: U.S. Department of Defense Health Agency – http://www.health.mil/dha   The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated Combat Support Agency that enables the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force…