One Health News

Prominent Israeli Physician Accepts Country Ambassador Role in Global ‘One Health Day’ Plans   Prof. Itamar Grotto, MD, MPH, PhD, https://apha.confex.com/apha/141am/webprogram/Person276636.html, a physician and recently appointed associate Director General of the State of Israel’s Ministry of Health www.health.gov.il accepted serving as Israel’s “One Health Day” Country Ambassador on October 16, 2016.  A longstanding One Health…

In light of the previous October 12, 2016 One Health Initiative NEWS item regarding an Important One Health Publication…International Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination “Reservoir-Targeted Vaccines as a One Health Path to Prevent Zoonotic Disease”, the One Health Initiative team is reposting a pertinent “One Health” NEWS item from 2013: see below and links http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=Important+Reminder%3A+Posted+Wednesday%2C+October+09%2C+2013+on+One+Health+Initiative+website%3A+A+potential+large+scale+%93One+Health+in+Action%94+…+another+dynamic+case+for+implementing+One+Health%21…

Important One Health Publication… International Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination “Reservoir-Targeted Vaccines as a One Health Path to Prevent Zoonotic Disease” Permission to post on One Health Initiative website October 12, 2016 granted by:   Steve Zatechka, PhD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, US Biologic, Inc, 20 Dudley, Suite 900, Memphis, TN 38103, USA, Tel: 901-755-6868 E-mail…

REMINDER: PLANNED ‘ONE HEALTH DAY’ EVENTS WORLDWIDE – November 3, 2016 Inaugural One Health Day …  “The goal of One Health Day is to bring attention around the world to the need for One Health interactions and for the world to ‘see them in action’. The One Health Day campaign is designed to engage as…

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.”          —John  Greenleaf Whittier   Worldwide adoption of a ‘One Health’ approach for Global Human Health care now and in future can certainly help avoid the above commentary… See some previous examples https://goo.gl/CBsqMr   Note: Many international and national…

  Portrait of a Dedicated U.S. One Health Leader   Steven Webster Atwood, VMD, MD, MPH, direct descendant of the American orator and statesman Daniel Webster, is the founder of Animal Health Care Associates, Ltd., a mixed-animal general practice located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.   Dr. Atwood graduated from the University of Wyoming in…

“One Health” Display at University of Pennsylvania’s Atwood Library (Philadelphia, PA – USA): Four Outstanding One Health textbooks and the One Health Umbrella graphic http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/OneHealth2.  By Head Librarian Margy Lindem Provided by: Steven W. Atwood, VMD, MD, MPH Dr. Atwood is a longstanding One Health Supporter and One Health Initiative Advisory Board member http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php. 

World Veterinary Association (WVA) and World Medical Association (WMA) Joint Press release: Eradicating rabies is a public health necessity Please see: http://www.worldvet.org/uploads/news/docs/wva_wma_pr_for_wrd_2016.pdf The WVA and the WMA have joined forces to mark World Rabies Day by calling for human rabies transmitted from unvaccinated dogs infected with rabies to be totally eradicated by 2030 The World…

One Health – The Interdependence of Humans, Animals, and Ecosystems Participating Faculty: Simon Duffy, Zohar Lederman (Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS) Schedule: September 21 – October 1, 2016 SEE: https://cipe.yale-nus.edu.sg/co-curricular-programs/week-7/week-7-2016/one-health-the-interdependence-of-humans-animals-and-ecosystems/  Provided by: Zohar Lederman, MD PhD candidate, Centre for Biomedical Ethics National University of Singapore

Reminder: Animal Biotech Summit – September 21-23, 2016 in Bethesda, Maryland http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Animal%20Biotech%20Summit%202016.pdf SEE: http://www.biotech-now.org/food-and-agriculture/2016/08/what-is-the-one-health-paradigm-all-about-in-a-nutshell-and-more   Reminder: One Health Inter-Regional European Conference Date:  22nd – 23rd – 24th of September, 2016 Location Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania For complete information see: http://www.onehealth.ro/en/

REMINDER: International Association of Risk Management in Medicine (IARMM)- 5th World Congress of Clinical Safety – Posted One Health Initiative website September 21-23 2016, Boston, USA – Friday, April 15, 2016   5th World Congress of Clinical Safety Theme: Smart Hospitals and Healthcare: Health Care Management & Leadership, Risk, Quality, and Productivity.   Date: 21(Wed)…

Internationally known “One Health” U.S. Physician Discusses Antimicrobial Resistance and the Critical role for a One Health Approach on National Public Radio (NPR)’s Broadcast ‘Science Friday’ Broadcast 09/16/2016 “This past August, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidelines for treating gonorrhea with antibiotics. It warned that the standard drugs used to treat the STD…

Global “One Health Day” Events listing page – to date…for November 5, 2016 (as of Sept 15, 2016) Please see: https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/eventscalendar/one_health_day/events_listing_2016/  Note: Dont be shy world, let us hear from you!

“The End of Antibiotics?” – today Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 6pm FREE EVENT The New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, NY (USA) Speakers include Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP Physician and research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.…

One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance – September 13, 2016 (Tomorrow) – Washington, DC American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) – http://www.aaas.org/   “Dr. Laura H. Kahn [MD, MPH, MPP] will discuss her recently published book, “One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance”, in which she analyzes the surprising outcomes of…

One Health Inter-Regional European Conference See: http://www.onehealth.ro/en/inter-regional-european-conference/ Date:  22nd – 23rd – 24th of September, 2016 Location Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania For complete information see: http://www.onehealth.ro/en/

One Health Commission (USA) partners with the Global Alliance for Rabies Controls ‘End Rabies Now’ campaign “Rabies is 100% preventable. In the U.S. and many European countries, a dog bite rarely leads to death. But in many countries, even a superficial dog bite or scratch can lead to a disease that is nearly 100% fatal once symptoms manifest. …

2nd GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ONE HEALTH – Finalized Program – Held in Japan, November 2016 See: http://www.worldvet.org/news.php?item=296 The World Veterinary Association, World Medical Association, Japan Medical Association and Japan Veterinary Medical Association are inviting you to the 2nd GCOH to strengthen the links and communications and to achieve closer collaboration between Physicians, Veterinarians and all…

Reminder: Global Annual “One Health Day”—November 3, 2016—needs YOUR participation now! One Health Day https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/eventscalendar/one_health_day/ is an international campaign co-coordinated by the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team and the One Health Platform Foundation. The goal of One Health Day is to bring attention around the world to the need…

A must view comprehensive One Health talk… One Health Expert Addresses Library of Congress SEE: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7365 TITLE: One Health SPEAKER: Bernadette Dunham, DVM, PhD EVENT DATE: 2016/05/18 RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window) DESCRIPTION: “Dr. Bernadette Dunham discussed interconnections of human and animal health with environmental health.…