One Health News

Prominent Pennsylvania (USA) Veterinary Medical School Dean Joins One Health Initiative Team’s Honorary Advisory Board   The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. Joan C. Hendricks http://www.vet.upenn.edu/people/faculty-clinician-search/JOANHENDRICKS, a veterinarian, has graciously accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on June 23, 2014.  The OHI…

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology (IEE)—A Significant One Health Journal—by One Health Sweden Infection Ecology & Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal aiming to be a truly international forum for the free exchange of original, cross-disciplinary, high quality papers from researchers in multiple medical and ecological disciplines engaged in describing the complexity of zoonotic infections…

Ravenswood Media Newsletter Publishes One Health Article The June 2014 – Issue #16 of the Ravenswood Media Newsletter has published a One Health article.  Please see http://www.ravenswoodmedia.com/a/newsletter/newsletter2014/rmnewsletter.html or http://www.ravenswoodmedia.com/a/newsletter/newsletter2014/rmnewsletter.html#onehealth. Provided by: David McGowan Ravenswood Media, Inc. (312)356-9099 410 S. Michigan Ave., #934 Chicago, IL  60604

One Health Undergraduate Certificate Program Launched at Fontbonne University, St Louis, Missouri (USA)   Fontbonne University, in partnership with the Institute for Conservation Medicine at the St. Louis Zoological Park, is launching an undergraduate certificate program in One Health.  The interdisciplinary approach that One Health takes toward the increasingly complex problems facing all health is…

Kansas State Medical Society Adopts One Health Resolution – 4th in the nation (USA) June 3, 2014—The Kansas State Medical Society became the 4th state in the United States to adopt a One Health resolution according to Dr. Ralph Richardson, Dean of the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Larry R. Anderson,…

One Health Post Graduate Diploma and Post Graduate Certificate Courses Offered at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India   “Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University now offers a Post Graduate Diploma in One health through technology enabled distance learning programmes in One Health. Notification for the course is available at the KVASU website www.kvasu.ac.in.…

“The business case for One Health”   Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 81(2), 6 pages – Open Access   Abstract   This article outlines a pathway to develop the business case for One Health. It describes the origin and development of One Health and then identifies five potential areas where One Health can add value…

American Society of Microbiology (ASM) [One Health] NEWS – Pages 173, 174, 175   Please read complete NEWS item at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/MicrobewithOH.pdf (See pages 173, 174, & 175)   Microbe—Volume 9, Number 4, 2014 See Pages 173, 174 & 175: Permission to post on One Health Initiative website graciously granted by Patrick Lacey, Managing Editor. Branches:…

Important One Health oriented interview with an Outstanding University of Pennsylvania Dean… Q&A with Joan Hendricks, VMD, PhD [USA] Dr. Hendricks http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g293/p20944, a veterinarian, is a prominent longstanding One Health supporter/advocate/leader http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php. By Heather A. Davis – May 8, 2014   Penn Current, Office of University of Pennsylvania Office of University Communications, 200 Sansom Place…

A significant One Health translational medicine research approach…Regrowth of injured muscles in mice and humans has been demonstrated by a multidisciplinary research team.   “An Acellular Biologic Scaffold Promotes Skeletal Muscle Formation in Mice and Humans with Volumetric Muscle Loss”   Citation: B. M. Sicari, J. P. Rubin, C. L. Dearth, M. T. Wolf, F.…

  A new Promotional published in The Lancet…in need of revision! Entitled “From public to planetary health: a manifesto” http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)60710-8.pdf   http://preview.smartfocusdigital.com/go.asp?/.2014.digitalmarketing.planetaryhealth.homepage/bELA001&utm_source=blank&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=               *  *  *  *  * In respectful opposition, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team, Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪…

Physician Editor of Missouri Medical Association Journal (USA) Joins One Health Initiative Team’s Honorary Advisory Board   The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. John C. Hagan http://www.discovervision.com/kansas-city/john-c-hagan-m-d.htm, a physician editor and ophthalmologist, has graciously accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on May 5,…

Visionary Joint One Health Endorsement Message by Physician and Veterinarian from India   “The fascinating history of human and animal medicine shows how concepts have developed over time. Each generation builds on the knowledge of the previous one. There have been antecedents to the concept of One Health from the days of Rudolf Virchow [physician],…

A One Health issue, Food Safety—   Food Safety in USA: Irradiation of Food, an essential tool neglected for decades…   a disgrace!     http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/FoodSafetyIrraditiontoolOHIwebsitePostingApril30,2014.pdf   “Michael T. Osterholm [PhD, MPH], director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, blames an *“anti-science movement” for the public resistance.…

Prominent Indian One Health Physician/Scientist Encourages Establishment of Unique Post Graduate Diploma in Zoonoses at Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS)   “I am a physician/scientist and a supporter of your “One Health” initiative.  A few years back I had requested the faculty at Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (http://www.tanuvas.ac.in/) to start a…

One Health model at University of Saskatchewan (Canada) trains future public health leaders   At the University of Saskatchewan (http://www.usask.ca/) in Western Canada, the One Health model is transforming the way health science disciplines are taught.  Students from across the health, environmental and policy sciences are now studying and working together to address problems in…

One Health Commission (USA) Communications Committee Chairman explains his One Health Insights   April 10, 2014—“I first became interested in One Health by my long standing interest and belief in One Medicine. In that endeavor I brought together at the Division of Surgery in the Harvard Center for Comparative Medicine physicians, veterinarians, nurses, applied science…

Prominent Public Health Physician Joins One Health Initiative Team’s Honorary Advisory Board The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. Virginia Dato, a physician, has graciously accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on April 10, 2014.  The One Health Initiative Honorary Advisory Board was established…

Missouri State Medical Association Adopts One Health Resolution – 3rd in the nation (USA)   April 6, 2014—The Missouri State Medical Association became the 3rd state in the United States to adopt a One Health resolution with Florida being the first and Massachusetts the second.  This was reported to the One Health Initiative website by…

World Veterinary Association (WVA) Adopts Position on One Health Concept   On March 20, 2014 the World Veterinary Association Council adopted a position paper on the One Health concept. Please see: http://www.worldvet.org/uploads/docs/wva_position_paper_on_one__health_concept.pdf.   Provided April 4, 2014 to One Health Initiative website by: Dr. Zeev Noga Veterinary Policy Officer World Veterinary Association (WVA) B-1040 Brussels…