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In progress… One Health Summit Davos, Switzerland  19-22 February 2012  Please see: http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/v?e=133EC6&c=A1E4&l=291E368&email=iTrabEs%2FrmEUMY3%2BW1fpIgi72yrq%2BZfs&relid=C6EC15A

Updated Biographies (January 2012) for One Health Initiative autonomous pro bono team   Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP – http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Laura%20Kahn%20Biography%20Jan2012.pdf   Bruce Kaplan, DVM – http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Bruce%20Kaplan%20Biography%20Jan2012.pdf   Thomas P. Monath, MD – http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Tom%20Monath%20Biography%20Jan2012.pdf   Jack Woodall, PhD – http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Jack%20Woodall%20Biography%20Jan2012.pdf   Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH – http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Lisa%20Conti%20Biography%202012.pdf

Important Public Notice from Canada…   Topic: IDEA Seminar Series – Prioritization of Zoonotic Diseases: Insights from Conjoint Analysis Date: Friday, February 17, 2012 Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Meeting Number: 625 640 396 Meeting Password: idea To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) 1. Go to https://qtmedia.webex.com/qtmedia/j.php?ED=192511967&UID=1328167247&PW=NYjRkMjhiYzlh&RT=NCMxMQ%3D%3D 2.…

A One Health model…prepared for the One Health Initiative website Feb 7, 2012 Canine Models of Human Diseases By *Thomas P. Monath, MD, FACP, FASTMH A recent paper by Grall et al. published in Nature Genetics (2012;44:140-9) and highlighted in Science (2012;335:271), reminds us of the value of spontaneous diseases of animals, particularly dogs, to…

Final Reminder: Don’t miss! – One Health Summit Davos, Switzerland  19-22 February 2012   Important Message from – Dr. Walter J. Ammann, President GRF Davos   Please see: http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/v?e=133EC6&c=A1E4&l=291E368&email=iTrabEsrmEUMY3W1fpIgi72yrqZfs&relid=C6EC15A

Important One Health in ACTION program…   University of California Global Health Institute (USA) One Health: Water, Animals, Food and Society Please see: http://ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu/coes/one-health/index.aspx

Indian Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Research and One Health Initiative Team Establish Website Links   Following a longstanding One Health liaison and mutual appreciation, the Indian Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Research has established a reciprocal website link http://www.iaavr.org/ with the One Health Initiative team/website www.onehealthinitiative.com today.  Please see Reciprocal Links page…

Prominent One Health Advocate-Speaker-Author & Public Health Expert Joins One Health Initiative Team   January 26, 2012—The One Health Initiative team of Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD and Jack Woodall, PhD proudly announces that Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH has officially joined with our autonomous pro bono…

Unique North Carolina (USA) Collaborative Group Sponsors “One Health” Discussion Series   “The North Carolina (USA) One Health Collaborative sponsors the One Health Intellectual Exchange Group discussion series. These interdisciplinary sessions are designed to provide a forum for direct communications / collaborations between physicians, veterinarians, environmental, plant and wildlife researchers, public health and other local/global…

“One Health: Information in an Interdependent World”   Plan now to attend the Medical Library Association 2013 Conference in Boston & meet your International Colleagues   The Medical Library Association annual meeting for 2013 (MLA ’13), will take place on May 3–8, 2013, in Boston, and will incorporate the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship…

Visionary One Health Training Programs Planned for University of Florida (USA)   Please see video at http://youtu.be/InYc6qB-pKk     “While many organizations call for a cross-disciplinary One Health approach, there are no US degree programs that teach students to lead these complex collaborations.  Comprised of sixteen different health science, engineering, and agriculture colleges, the University of…

A relevant One Health Issue…   The National Link Coalition: Multi-disciplinary Human-Animal Partnerships to Prevent Family and Community Violence   Provided to One Health Initiative website/team January 12, 2012:   By PHIL ARKOW Coordinator, National Link Coalition 37 Hillside Road, Stratford, NJ 08084 856-627-5118 arkowpets@snip.net   –   www.nationallinkcoalition.org   Please view original submission at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One%20Health%20-%20description%20of%20NLC2.pdf  …

Important One Health Endorsement …   SOCIETY OF JUNIOR DOCTORS   SITE: MENALOU 5, MAROUSSI, ATHENS, GREECE ESTABLISHED: 2009, EMAIL: info@sni.gr One World, One Medicine: SJD is on board!   In a rapidly changing world, the only initiatives which make sense and could actually make a difference are the ones promoting a multidisciplinary approach. The…

One Health Summit Feb 19-22, 2012 – Davos, Switzerland Programme Released! The international One Health Summit 2012, organized by the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos, features an integrative health risk management approach acknowledging the systemic interconnections between human-, animal-, and environmental health in close relation with food safety and security. The conference will contribute to…

Important One Health issues…   National Foundation for Infectious Diseases – 15th Annual Conference for Vaccine Research    Monday, May 7, 2012 – Wednesday, May 9, 2012   Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor Hotel300 Light StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21202410-528-1234 The Annual Conference on Vaccine Research http://www.cvent.com/d/scqjyd?refid=ohi provides high-quality, current reports of scientific progress featured in both invited…

Pig flu in humans more common than we think?  Prepared for publication on the One Health Initiative website and submitted January 3, 2011 by:   John Friary, MPH, MS Global Pathogens Laboratory http://gpl.phhp.ufl.edu Emerging Pathogens Institute Department of Environmental and Global Health College of Public Health and Health Profession University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA)…

World Veterinary Association (WVA) One Health Section Now Available on Home Page Tab   January 3, 2012—The One Health Initiative team is proud to announce that through our longstanding liaison with the World Veterinary Association’s Contents Manager Jim Edwards, ONZM, BVSc, MRCVS, Dip.Bus.Studs http://www.worldveterinaryconsultants.com/?Directors:Jim_Edwards and a past President of WVA, we have added a Tab to…

An important unique example of One Health in ACTION…   International Laboratory on Vector Borne Diseases Established in West Africa     “The LAMIVECT (Laboratoire mixte international sur les maladies à vecteurs”, or international laboratory on vector-borne diseases) Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) was born in May 2011. It gathers the main actors on research, training and…

Book Review Requested by One Health Initiative Website Team: Animals, Diseases, and Human Health: Shaping Our Lives Now and in the Future Reviewed by Lisa Ann Conti, DVM, MPH, Diplomate ACVPM, CEHP, CPM, AVES (Hon) Animals, Diseases, and Human Health: Shaping Our Lives Now and in the Future presents some of the more common dilemmas…

One Health “AHEAD” – Wildlife Conservation Society & Partners   What is AHEAD? –  www.wcs-ahead.org“Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) was launched at the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa.  By assembling a dream team of veterinarians, ecologists, biologists, social and economic scientists, agriculturists, wildlife managers, public health…