One Health News

ONE HEALTH CONFERENCE – Tickborne Diseases and Rabies Physician One Health Expert *Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP to be Keynote Speaker *Dr. Kahn is a co-founding member of the One Health Initiative team Thursday, April 5, 2012, Tulsa Convention Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) “The One Health Conference is an inaugural regional educational effort dedicated…

Exciting and Important One Health degree program…   MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN CONSERVATION MEDICINE DEGREE PROGRAM   Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Tufts%20MS%20in%20Conservation%20Medicine%20flier%20-currently%20used%20version.pdf   “Conservation medicine focuses on health relationships occurring at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment, and seeks to develop and apply health management practices, policies and programs that sustain biodiversity and protect…

Worth revisiting…   FREE One Health ‘MedMyst Magazine’ – An Important Unique Educational Publication to assist young people with their early education   Produced by Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, Houston, Texas (USA) in partnership with Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, Texas.   Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/MagDiseaseDiscovery.pdf   Also…

Important and unique One Health paper submitted to the One Health Initiative team/website February 25, 2012…   GIDEON and One Health   *Steven A. Berger, MD Director of Geographic Medicine and Clinical Microbiology Associate Professor of Medicine University of Tel-Aviv School of Medicine Tel-Aviv, Israel   As of 2012 humans are subject to 347 generic…

One Health Initiative website team’s Honorary Advisory Board Joined by New Member February 29, 2012—The One Health Initiative honorary Advisory Board was established on December 1, 2010. Today, we are pleased to announce that among the current outstanding One Health supporters/advocates and recognized leaders, Indu Mani, DVM, DSc, editor of Clinician’s Brief http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/, the official…

Important One Health Endorsement Statement provided to One Health Initiative team/website February 24, 2012   PRIMATOLOGY CAN PROVIDE CRITICAL LINKS FOR THE “ONE HEALTH INITIATIVE” *Joseph M. Erwin, PhD, and **Patrick R. Hof, MD Humans are primates, and detailed studies of the health and behavior of human and nonhuman primates across the life span, in…

First Worldwide One Health PhD Degree Program Announced (USA)   February 24, 2012 –- The first known PhD degree program in the world with a concentration in One Health was announced today by the department of environmental and global health, college of public health and health professions at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (USA). …

Important Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC.ca) Radio One Health News message … Please listen to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC.ca) radio’s recent podcast containing an excellent One Health News item.  Click on http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/twtw.xml and then where it says “The World this Weekend Sunday February 19, 2012” you will see: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 12:00:00 AM | podcasting@cbc.ca…

VERMONT VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (USA) proudly present ONE HEALTH SPEAKER   Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH, DACVPM   Thursday, June 21, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm The Essex, Essex VT (USA)   One Health: Where Humans, Animals and the Environment Overlap   Stories from the field: the critical role of preparedness in practice Emerging…

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…