One Health Publications
UTMB One Health Newsletter – Issue 25, March 2024
March 1, 2024
Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment
View PublicationAvian Influenza Virus Is Adapting to Spread to Marine Mammals | UC Davis
February 28, 2024
“The concept of One Health honors the interconnectivity among humans, domestic animals, wildlife and the environment. Interspecies disease outbreaks are unsettling examples of such connections and require global collaboration among public, wildlife, agricultural, health and other sectors.”
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One Health Happenings – Volume 11, No. 2, February 21, 2024
February 22, 2024
Volume 11, No. 2, February 21, 2024
Sharing news from mid-January to mid-February 2024
View PublicationSocial science in health: A neglected approach to tackling infectious diseases and anti-microbial resistance in Africa (openaccessgovernment.org)
February 21, 2024
“… A One Health social science approach utilizing anthropological theory and methods can contribute to a broader understanding of human-human, animal-human and human-environment interactions [10]. For example, this approach can show how individuals interact with and respond to the environment around them and how these interactions affect society and the environment as a whole. …”
View PublicationMulti-agency report highlights importance of reducing antibiotic use | EFSA (europa.eu)
February 21, 2024
“Taking a One Health approach, which recognises the connection between the health of people and animals, the report presents data primarily collected between 2019 and 2021 on antibiotic consumption and AMR in Europe. …”
View PublicationGroundbreaking Method to Track Typhoid Fever Cases (medriva.com)
February 16, 2024
“… The One Health Approach: An Integrated Strategy
Beyond typhoid, the One Health approach can be instrumental in managing other health threats. Recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, it emphasizes addressing antibiotic resistance as a problem that extends beyond humans to the environment and livestock wildlife. The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment, facilitated by the transfer of genetic material between bacteria, underscores the importance of integrating the One Health approach into the public health system. …”
View PublicationWHO updates list of medically important antibiotics for use in human medicine | CIDRAP (umn.edu)
February 13, 2024
“Because AMR develops and transfers within and among all sectors, minimizing the risk of emergence and transmission of AMR calls for a One Health approach.”
View PublicationLessons From Ecuador: A One Health Perspective
February 12, 2024
IN A NUTSHELL Editor’s note
By One Health critical lens of examination, this extremely documented masterful article turns the spotlight on the challenges and threats to health currently being perceived in the Ecuadorian areas of Amazon rainforest and Galapagos islands. At a time when consensus has gained traction that humans, animals, plants, and the whole ecosystems are intimately enmeshed and mutually dependent as for individual and global health, this article strongly recommends that a One Health vision shaping the human policies, strategies and practices should be embraced by all policy leaders and decision makers. As a matter of fact, closer collaboration under One Health umbrella would definitely add strength towards global health security and ecosystems integrity achievements.
By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP
Co-Founder, One Health Initiative
Fungicide resistance: A threat to the health of humans, animals and plants (phys.org)
February 10, 2024
“… One Health: Everything is connected
Skaar leads the project NavAzole which aims to map and understand the development of azole resistance in Norway. This knowledge is needed to make wise decisions to keep the resistance level as low as possible. This requires cooperation between different sectors.
“Azole resistance concerns several sectors. We must therefore keep the One Health perspective in mind when working with it. This means that we must acknowledge the important connection between human health, animal health, and the surrounding environment. We need to consider all the application areas of azoles, and investigate hotspots for resistance development, and how resistance is spread further,” the senior researcher elaborates. …”
View PublicationOne Health in Worldwide Educational Curricula Paradigm Shift – All levels
February 2, 2024
Journal of Global, Public and One Health (www.jgpoh.com)
January 31, 2024, Article
Kahn L. One Health in Worldwide 2024-01-31 Publications – jgpoh.com (https://jgpoh.com/publications)
Kahn LH, Kaplan B, Monath TP, Yuill TM, Chapman HJ, Carter CN, Barrentine B, Seifman R. One health in worldwide educational curricula paradigm shift – all levels. JGPOH 2024, posted: 31-01-2024. DOI: 10.61034/JGPOH-2024-6
January 25, 2024, Also see: JGPOH website’s https://jgpoh.com/announcements … http://jgpoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JGPOH-Announcement.pdf,.
Additional useful information … Provided by Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission:
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/resources__services/one_health_education_resources/primary_secondary_k12_oh_education_resources/
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/programs/one_health_education__us_initiative/
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/resources__services/oh_opportunities_bulletin_board/
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/resources__services/oh_resources_for_public_health_educators/
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/resources__services/whos_who_in_one_health/academic_organizations/
- https://www.onehealthcommission.org/en/why_one_health/one_health_core_competencies/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25650827/
UTMB One Health Newsletter – Issue 24, February 2024
February 1, 2024
Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment
View Publication“One Health” Creates A Healthier And More Hopeful Future For All (forbes.com)
January 29, 2024
“… One Health as a framework looks to better understand and to educate us on the intricate and overlapping web that links the health of people, animals, and our surroundings. It is the holistic, interdisciplinary, and multisectoral approach to wellness based on the knowledge that all living things are interconnected, and their long-term sustainability, prosperity, and survival are maximized by attention to this interconnectedness. …”
“… The One Health framework, which pulls together knowledge from human and animal and environmental science sectors, touches on broader topics as well. One Health leaders, for instance, are seeking to optimize food safety and security and to keep this in balance with land use and regenerative ranching and agriculture, and even livestock farming practices. From a built environment standpoint, One Health experts are examining how human population growth and urbanization impact habitat fragmentation, clean and safe food and water sources, and biodiversity. …”
“… Closing
One Health requires thinking holistically, bringing down barriers of siloed thinking, and calling upon shared knowledge and heightened collaboration among human, veterinarian, and environmental science specialties. It requires expansive knowledge sharing and asking researchers, scientists, and operators to step out of their comfort zones and work collaboratively across specialties.
One Health is a well demonstrated movement that enables us to better understand our most pressing health challenges today and to prepare for those of tomorrow. It will help us find more sustainable and long-term solutions that are good for us and good for the entire planet. We are all interconnected. And the health of each one of us is inextricably linked to the health of our environment and the rich biodiversity of nature that surrounds us. We – each one of us – are One Health stewards.”
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Genetic Knowledge from Past Diseases: How It Could Help Address Present Health Issues – Impakter
January 25, 2024
“… The promise of ancient genetic research in the future
The results would enrich our understanding of the genetic consequences of human-animal coexistence, and the risks of zoonotic disease emergence. We should not forget the insights gained from the One Health approach that pulls together humans, animals and the environment into an organic whole.
Whether using new research tools to better grapple with the most common afflictions of today, or to gain insight into the 6,000 rare diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people, many of whom are children, there is every reason to believe we are on the verge of having better health for all.”
View Publication80-year mystery solved: Mosquitoes spread flesh-eating Buruli ulcer | Doherty Website
January 24, 2024
“… The Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Dr Katherine Gibney, an infectious diseases and public health physician and one of the study leads at the Doherty Institute, stressed the importance of ongoing wildlife and mosquito population monitoring – a One Health approach. …”
View PublicationQuick Links
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Please see MONOGRAPH in Veterinaria Italiana
“One Health – One Medicine”: linking human, animal and environmental health
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History of the One Health Initiative team and website (April 2006 through September 2015) and the One Health Initiative website since October 1, 2008 … revised to June 2020 and again to date February 2021
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Vaccines for zoonoses: a One Health paradigm
SciTech Europa Quarterly (March 2018) – Issue 26
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Pan European Networks SciTech Europa Quarterly
SciTech Europa Vaccines for zoonoses: a one Health paradigm – Pages 227-229 (Read PDF) “One of the One Health Initiative team’s co-founders and leaders is an internationally-recognized eminent physician…
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