One Health News

Acting U.S. Assistant Defense Secretary and One Health Leader Recognized with the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Headed Cane Award (USA)   Donald L. Noah, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, a veterinarian and noted animal disease diagnostician was presented with the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Headed Cane Award at the American Veterinary Medical Association…

Notable American Physician-Veterinarian One Health Endorsement Message   [Received from *Dr. George F. Henning by the One Health Initiative team August 3, 2012]     “I would be honored to be considered as a supporter of the One Health Initiative. To be associated with such a noble and worthwhile organization is truly inspiring as well as…

One Health Newsletter  Summer Issue 2012, Volume 5 Issue 3 Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/SummerOHNL2012.pdf

Master of Health Science (MHS) with One Health Concentration Degree Program Now offered at University of Florida (USA)     Gainesville, Florida (USA) — Dr. Gregory C. Gray, prominent physician One Health leader announced July 24, 2012 …   “I am pleased to report that we are now receiving applications for our new MHS (One…

One Health related Blog…   New Campaign, “Meat without Drugs” could be inhumane!   As a public health veterinarian, I am concerned that a campaign such as “Meat without Drugs” could result in “Animals without Health”. A new report from Consumer Reports1 provides some public opinion data that are not surprising. Given the constant drumbeat…

Call to Arms…   One Health more than a name…it represents efficacious, economical approach to protecting and saving lives!   The tip of the iceberg of truth and proof in favor of One Health implementation has been documented in the One Health Initiative website and from many other sources during the first decade of the…

North American Veterinary Conference’s *Clinicians Brief Journal (USA) Features One Health Initiative Capsules   July 2012 issue – Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/CBJuly2012OneHealthCapsules.pdf     *Clinician’s Brief, the official Journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and…

Tracks: Nurses and the Tracking Network This podcast highlights the utility of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network for nurses in a variety of work settings. It features commentary from the American Nurses Association and includes stories from a public health nurse in Massachusetts. Created: 6/6/2012 by National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Division of…

One Health Commentary: Human Bartonellosis significance and diagnosis A short popular media news article, published in the Raleigh News and Observer on June 25, 2012 http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/06/25/2151203/sharper-infection-detection.html#storylink=misearch, brought public attention to the significance of Bartonella infection in humans and development of an enhanced diagnostic procedure.  Bartonellosis is an emerging zoonotic disease recently recognized to be prominent…

Book Review by Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH.  Dr. Conti is a member of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team.  One World – the Health and Survival of the Species in the 21st Century “In the Introductory Statement of the book, One World – the Health and Survival of the Species in the…

Important economic justification for worldwide One Health implementation…   PEOPLE, PATHOGENS AND OUR PLANET – The Economics of One Health     “The report has two target audiences: (a) project planners, who will benefit from the information of the costs of setting up surveillance and control systems to be used as benchmarks when planning preparedness…

American Academy of Pediatrics’ Official News Magazine Encourages One Health Support   “To promote better awareness of zoonotic infections, identify animal-related allergies, understand the health benefits of human-animal relationships and recognize animals as sentinels in environmental risk exposures, the Academy is supporting a collaborative effort of human and veterinary medical organizations called the One Health…

  Is it One Health…or “Zoobiquity”?   Numerous queries to this effect have been coming into the One Health Initiative website since a recent New York Times (USA) “zoobiquity” piece was published June 9, 2012 and later the Diane Rehm National Public Radio (USA) show featured interviews with the co-authors of a new book on…

Two Outstanding One Health Programs: Schools of Veterinary Medicine (USA) – see links   (Second of a continuing series)     Ohio State: http://vet.osu.edu/cvm/one-health-college-veterinary-medicine   University of Pennsylvania: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/PennVet/AboutUs/tabid/247/Default.aspx

One Health Endorsed by American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) President-elect     Provided exclusively to the One Health Initiative website June 18, 2012   “The scientific basis for seeing the biological world through the lens of One Health is clear to us as veterinarians, although not always as obvious to physicians, other human health  and…

Outstanding One Health Program Established at Massey University – New Zealand Statement provided June 14, 2012 exclusively to the One Health Initiative website by*Dr. Joanna McKenzie   Recognising the importance of increased co-operation between animal and human health communities to meet future public health challenges, Massey University has embraced One Health collaborative approaches in multiple…

North American Veterinary Conference’s *Clinicians Brief Journal (USA) Features One Health Initiative Capsules   June 2012 issue – Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/CBJune2012OneHealthCapsules.pdf   *Clinician’s Brief, the official Journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding…

Two Outstanding-Visionary One Health Programs: Schools/Colleges of Veterinary Medicine (USA) – see links   June 10, 2012   (First of a series to be posted on the One Health Initiative website www.onehealthinitiative.com)   University of California-Davis (USA): http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/links.cfm; http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/clubs/scavma/dognjog.html    University of Missouri (USA): http://cvm.missouri.edu/news/onehealthinitiative.htm; http://www.columc.missouri.edu/

One Health Leader Named President of National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (USA)   June 5, 2012—TALLAHASSEE, FL (USA) – Florida Department of Health’s (DOH), Dr. Carina Blackmore, was recently appointed as the incoming president of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (SPHVs). The association is made up of state public health…

Practicing “One Health” for the Human Health Clinician   (Physicians, Osteopaths, Physician Associates, Nurse Practitioners, Other Human Health Care Providers) For distribution:  http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/PracticingOneHealthHumanHealthCareProvidersApril2012.pdf     Practicing “One Health” for the Human Health Clinician  Produced April 2012 by One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas…