One Health News

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…

“One Health” Air Force Veterinarian Receives U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fellowship   Major Thomas Doker (DVM, DACVPM, MPH, CPH), the public health flight chief for the 82nd Aerospace Medical Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base in Frederick, Oklahoma, was recently chosen for a fellowship with the…

Kentucky (USA) Veterinary Medical Association History Book contains One Health Feature   Please see PDF link http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One_Health_from100_Year_book.pdf to read complete One Health chapter…     “Celebrating 100 Years of Compassionate Care, 1911 – 2011, a new book released by the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association (KVMA), is now available for online purchase www.kvma.org.  Its 120 pages…

One Health Program Progress Report from the Netherlands   Reported by: Arno Vermeulen PhD, Managing Director, Immuno Valley ALTANT programme, Yalelaan 42, 3584 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands P: +31 30 253 1142 –  M: +31 6 46311342   Please see December 7, 2011 PRESS RELEASE – PDF link http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Press%20Release%20Immuno%20Valley%20ALTANT%2020111207%20(2).pdf   … ‘One Health’: animals and humans…

Historic One Health Resolution (USA)…   National League of Cities · Adopted at the 2011 Congress of Cities · November 12, 2011 (USA)  2012 Energy, Environment and Natural Resources  Pg.68 & 69   NLC RESOLUTION #2012-17 – ONE HEALTH INITIATIVE [Please see http://alturl.com/tz5gx and http://alturl.com/zh45j]   WHEREAS, cities depend on the health and vitality of their…

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology Journal – Citation: Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011, 1: 8293 – DOI: 10.3402/iee.v1i0.8293 CASE STUDY One health national programme across species on zoonoses: a call to the developing world Asokan G. V., Dr1*, Vanitha Asokan, Dr2 and Prathap Tharyan, Dr3 1College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain; 2American Mission Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain; 3South Asian Cochrane Network &…

One Health Initiative website team Honorary Advisory Board Joined by New Member   November 25, 2011—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, The Mayor of Moscow, Idaho (USA), Nancy Chaney, RN, BA,…

Major One Health News…   National League of Cities (USA) Adopts One Health Resolution   November 18, 2011 (USA)—The National League of Cities (NLC) http://nlc.org/ adopted an historic One Health Resolution at its annual business meeting in Phoenix, AZ (USA) on November 12, 2011, with approximately 700 voting members in attendance.    The resolution states…

One Health Publications   Courtesy of:  *Clinicians Brief Journal – November 2011 Issue:   ·         “Public Health Significance of Toxoplasma” – See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/CapsulesNov2011.pdf.   ·          Ask the expert…“Checklists: An Answer to Avoiding Mistakes” – See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/AsktheExpert_Checklists.pdf   See full November issue: http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal   *Clinician’s Brief, the official Journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC),…

One Health Approaches Serve to Mind the Gaps Olga Jonas, Economic Adviser, World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 (USA) www.worldbank.org/flu     Provided to One Health Initiative Website – November 9, 2011 The breaking of the levees in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the single most catastrophic failure of an engineered system…

A neglected zoonosis… Notes from the Field: Q Fever Outbreak Associated with Goat Farms — Washington and Montana, 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: October 14, 2011 / 60(40);1393: See PDF http://alturl.com/dvt7z On April 22, 2011, the Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii was detected in a goat…

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services – Food and Drug Administration (FDA) One Health Initiative: Fat Cat? By Ashley Steel, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA – November 2, 2011 “We drive through 7 am gridlock to survive the monotony of our 9-to-5 jobs all to find a way to pay for life’s expenses.…