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U.S. One Health Commission (OHC) Sponsors Important One Health Webinar – Wednesdays, July 6, 2016 and July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) – Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP presenting http://goo.gl/ooytGQ https://www.onehealthcommission.org/index.cfm/37526/78597/webinar_one_health_and_the_politics_of_antibiotic_resistance_part_1_of_2 07/06/2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT Title One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) Overview:  The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria has created a crisis in medicine and veterinary medicine. The use of antibiotics as growth promoting agents in livestock has been a highly political issue. Europe approved avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic, in the 1970’s. Its widespread use led to the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). In contrast, the US has requested that its livestock producers voluntarily stop using antibiotic growth promoting agents. Using a One Health approach by integrating the perspectives of medicine/public health and veterinary medicine/agriculture, this presentation briefly compares and contrasts the EU versus the US experience regarding antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and livestock production.  Learning Objectives:  1. Understand the history behind low dose antibiotic use in agriculture.  2. Understand how the rise of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) drove public policy in Europe.  3. Understand the different policy approaches in Europe and the U.S. regarding avoparcin, a growth-promoting antibiotic used extensively in pork production, and how they impacted VRE epidemiology.  4. Understand how genomics can play a crucial role in antimicrobial resistance surveillance.  Speaker:  Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP  Research Scholar  Program on Science and Global Security  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs  Princeton University  Co-Founder, One Health Initiative, http://www.onehealthinitiative.com   Columnist, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org    Part 2 of this webinar series, Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment, will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11am EDT. Click here for more information and to register.   Webinar: One Health and the Politics of Antibiotic Resistance (Part 1 of 2) Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP https://goo.gl/ak4f6T http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/events.php?query=Webinar+One+Health+and+the+Politics+of+Antibiotic+Resistance+Part+1+of+2

Pandemic Proofing the World An epidemiologist in Nairobi on the next Zika virus “I’m a veterinary epidemiologist working on global “One Health” issues at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), located in East Africa. ILRI’s headquarters lie on the outskirts of the city of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and home to the highly fatal Nairobi sheep disease. Nairobi was also the origin of several tick fevers and the Kenya tick typhus, which caused skin lesions in people and sometimes death. The country itself is located at the edge of the spectacular Rift Valley, home to Rift Valley fever, the cause of abortions in sheep and hemorrhagic fevers that can kill people. To our east is the beautiful Kenyan coast, breeder of East Coast fever, a cancer-like disease that kills calves as well as adult cattle within three weeks of parasitic infection. Immediately to our west is Uganda, where the Zika virus was first detected in the lush Zika forest. First found in a captive rhesus monkey, caged and placed in the forest to detect yellow fever, the virus is the cause of the globally spreading birth defect known as Zika, or microencephalopathy. Still farther west flows the dark Ebola River, which gave its name to the Ebola virus, the cause of Ebola hemorrhagic fevers that recently killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. ...”                                                     By Delia Grace, MVB, MSc, PhD Please read complete article https://howwegettonext.com/pandemic-proofing-the-world-98222a38782#.qc53tzvtt

 A One Health opinion... One Health, Physicians (medical doctors), and more – June 28, 2016 National & International Status Bruce Kaplan, DVM Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative website Co-Founder One Health Initiative team/website www.onehealthinitiative.com

PLOS One Journal A One Health Message about Bats Increases Intentions to Follow Public Health Guidance on Bat Rabies Lu H, McComas KA, Buttke DE, Roh S, Wild MA (2016) A One Health Message about Bats Increases Intentions to Follow Public Health Guidance on Bat Rabies. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156205. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156205 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371journal.pone.0156205 Abstract Since 1960, bat rabies variants have become the greatest source of human rabies deaths in the United States. Improving rabies awareness and preventing human exposure to rabid bats remains a national public health priority today. Concurrently, conservation of bats and the ecosystem benefits they provide is of increasing importance due to declining populations of many bat species. This study used a visitor-intercept experiment (N = 521) in two U.S. national parks where human and bat interactions occur on an occasional basis to examine the relative persuasiveness of four messages differing in the provision of benefit and uncertainty information on intentions to adopt a rabies exposure prevention behavior. We found that acknowledging benefits of bats in a risk message led to greater intentions to adopt the recommended rabies exposure prevention behavior without unnecessarily stigmatizing bats. These results signify the importance of communicating benefits of bats in bat rabies prevention messages to benefit both human and wildlife health.

New Publications in the One Health Journal Veterinary Sciences — Basel, Switzerland The new online Open Access journal Veterinary Sciences, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci) published two new issues.

Important One Health Leadership Position Notice: Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine A unique opportunity to lead a dynamic Center dedicated to One Health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking a veterinarian with proven leadership experience and a strong commitment to protecting and improving public health to lead the agency’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, (CVM)  a senior leadership position within the Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program. ... See attached CVM Director Search Flyer and Statement of Duties http://goo.gl/tgijNg.

The Brown Journal of World Affairs Another important documented economic validation for utilizing the One Health approach for sustainable Global Public Health… “...given the zoonotic nature of most emerging infectious disease threats, a “One Health” approach that builds cooperation and coordination between animal and human public health systems is essential. Robust veterinary systems that meet OIE standards are needed to provide early warning, curb antibiotic and other drug resistance in microbes, and control emerging animal diseases in a cost-effective manner before they threaten humans. ...” Volume XXI Issue 2 Spring–Summer 2015 Global Health   International Cooperative Responses to Pandemic Threats: A Critical Analysis Milan Brahmbhatt and Olga Jonas In this paper, we argue that the world appears to be seriously underinvesting in international cooperation for the prevention and control of pandemics—for reasons that range from outdated models of the pandemic threat to challenges in the provision of global public goods, in tackling catastrophic risks, and in the political economy of public choice. Nevertheless, these challenges can be met. The economic returns on investments to prevent and better control pandemics are extremely large. The last 15 years provide valuable lessons from both suc- cesses and setbacks, suggesting four principles for a plan of action to revitalize international cooperative responses to pandemic threats. Milan Brahmbhatt is Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and a member of the project team for the New Climate Economy Initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, where he leads the work of the Country Transitions workstream. Before joining the New Climate Economy, Milan worked at the World Bank as Senior Adviser to the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, dealing with a wide range of macroeconomic and structural policy is- sues, including the economics of climate change, sustainable growth, and infectious diseases. Olga Jonas is an Economic Adviser at the World Bank. She has coordinated responses to avian flu and other pandemics since 2006. Her prior duties include advising on replenishments of the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries, leading economic work of the global task force on small states, and coordinating responses to the extractive industries review and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She also led macroeconomic operations in francophone African countries for over a decade. She joined the World Bank in 1983 after working at the Bank for International Settlements and the OECD. She holds degrees from Williams College and Princeton University.  https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/journal-world-affairs/212-springsummer-2015/international-cooperative-responses-pandemic-threats-critical-analysis

Reminder: One Health Inter-Regional European Conference Date: September 22, 23, and 24, 2016 Location Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania For details see: www.onehealth.ro ·                                  General presentation ·                                  Dates and Venue ·                                  Fees, Deadlines and Papers ·                                  Conference Program ·                                  Organizing committee ·                                  Scientific committee ·                                  Contact General presentation General presentation of the conference Organising this One Health Inter-Regional European Conference comes as a natural consequence of the momentum that the One Health concept has gathered for the last couple of years. Romania is truly honoured to be part of the One Health movement and firmly believes that due to its half of century experience in comparative medicine and not only, will have a positive impact on the One Health trajectory. We invite all professions linked to One Health to attend this Conference, because One Health is best defined with the phrase “It’s all connected!” The conference will be organised under the auspices of the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) by close collaboration of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences and the One Health New Medical Concept Association in Romania.

Erratum to: Bartonella spp. - a chance to establish One Health concepts in veterinary and human medicine Regier Y, O’Rourke F, Kempf V Parasites & Vectors 2016, 9 :330 (10 June 2016) Abstract | Full Text | PDF | PubMed http://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1546-x

MEDICINA (Buenos Aires) 2016; 76: 159-165 - Journal Online: www.jnsci.org (Open-Access) ZOONOTIC TUBERCULOSIS. A COMPREHENSIVE ONE HEALTH APPROACH *CHARLES O. THOEN1, BRUCE KAPLAN2, TYLER C. THOEN3, MICHAEL J. GILSDORF4, JACK A. SHERE5 Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2One Health Initiative, Sarasota, Fla, 3Board Certification Internal Medicine, McFarland Clinic, Ames, IA, 4Former Director of the National Center for Animal Health Programs, United States Department of Agriculture, 5Deputy Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. USA Abstract: The objective of this report is to provide information on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infections in animals and in humans. Included is information on the susceptibility of different species as well as information on etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and control of this disease. The term One Health has been adopted to describe the unified human medical and veterinary interdisciplinary/mul­tidisciplinary collaborative approach to zoonoses and will be critical for future endeavors in the control of the global TB epidemic. This unified paradigm is ideally suited for control of bovine TB and many other international public health and clinical health issues. Sharing resources and increasing interaction between public health and veterinary medical scientists can raise awareness of ‘shared risk’ of bovine TB between humans and animals and, in resource-limited situations, can maximize use of existing infrastructure and reduce unnecessary duplication of effort in disease control programs. http://www.medicinabuenosaires.com/PMID/27295705.pdf *Dr. Charles O. Thoen [DVM, PhD], an internationally recognized Tuberculosis expert, is the principal Co-editor of the One Health textbook, Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474295,subjectCd-LS50.html - 3rd Edition (2014) and immediate past president of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES).  Dr. Thoen is also a longstanding One Health leader and supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

US Biologic One Health Solutions to Prevent Global Disease, Spring, 2016 An updated presentation – Please see attached PDF. Note: US Biologic is a major U.S. Company that has strongly endorsed One Health http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=Major+U.S.+Company+US+Biologic+Strongly+Endorses+One+Health Provided June 13, 2016 by: Chris Przybyszewski, Executive Vice President, 901-490-5857  

Dear  Doctor/Scientist, ​The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the International Research Scholars Program which aims to support up to 50 outstanding early career scientists/physicians worldwide. The programs aim is to help develop scientific talent worldwide. Awardees will receive a total of $650,000 over five years, and they can do research in their own countries.  Investigators from around the world can apply, but please review eligibility criteria. We are wondering if you would be willing to refer your fellows or junior investigators or past fellows to this program. The details can be perused on  Trialect  https://app.trialect.com/ at:  Worldwide Scientific Talent Grant https://app.trialect.com/3873/display. ​  Regards, Trialect Support ​+1.805.850.6002 (only for technical questions) Support@trialect.com Please add Support@trialect.com to your contact list, so our activation email is directed to your inbox

The Commonwealth Health Hub Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education! Posted June 10, 2016 Please see: https://www.thecommonwealth-healthhub.net/preparing-society-create-world-need-one-health-education/

June 9, 2016    For Immediate Release Contacts for Media, Interested Project Planning Participants, Individuals and/or Organizations:   George Lueddeke, PhD, Chair, One Health Education Task Force  glueddeke@aol.com     Tel: (+44) 023 8042 8966 Mob.: (+44) 7538 162191  Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director, One Health Commission cstroud@onehealthcommission.org Tel: (+1) 984-500-8593   _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education! Two leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission and the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team are partnering to help create and promote a comprehensive global education revolution that supports curriculum innovation on the unifying interconnected health of humans, animals, and the environment that sustains all life on earth.  A Concept paper titled ‘Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education has been released calling for interested parties to step forward to help with planning. The One Health concept encompasses a wide range of global public health and comparative medicine endeavors. Dr. George Lueddeke, one of the “One Health” educational project leaders and author of a new One Health oriented book on global population health and well-being, said that, “In keeping with the UN 2030 global Agenda for Sustainability, there is an urgent need for collective action by policy-makers, public / private educators, and health professionals to provide global ONE HEALTH learning opportunities across the education spectrum.”   We must give younger generations in both low and high income nations “a better deal” for helping to shape a sustainable world, one that is being tested severely by a threatened environment, conflicts, inequities, poverty, ideological extremes, and consumerism. Time is running short. As one example, data from the Living Planet Index (2014) should “make us stop and think”: “in less than two human generations, population sizes of vertebrate species have dropped by half. These are the living forms that constitute the fabric of the ecosystems which sustain life on earth and the barometer of what we are doing to our planet, our only home.” “It is becoming increasingly clear that realigning our relationship with the planet and ourselves  rests not with individuals or groups who follow their own narrow self- interests - corporate, political, ideological - but with people who value collaborative approaches to these challenges and who embrace a bolder, broader more hopeful scope of human existence within a sustainable world”, Lueddeke said. The two groups will work closely with global partners (social, economic, environmental) and support One Health projects led by teachers who want to make a difference.  Adequate funding is being sought and would be made available for innovative curriculum development and implementation beginning in primary/secondary schools and extending through graduate and professional education. A small pre-project proposal conference is being organized with a goal of achieving consensus on a strong plan to fund the envisioned global learning program. The longer term aim is to establish a multi-dimensional coordinating mechanism to define project parameters, encourage project proposals, prioritize and allocate funding for One Health themed curriculum development projects at local, national and regional levels and evaluate outcomes worldwide. #### About the initiators:   The One Health Commission is a globally focused 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting improved health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants and the environment. Committed to creating unifying interactions and opportunities between animal health, human health and planetary health, it is a gateway for the active exchange of One Health-related knowledge, sharing of resources and collaborative projects that reach beyond disciplinary boundaries. Working to train the next generation of One Health leaders, the Commission seeks to ‘Connect’ One Health Advocates, to ‘Create’ networks and teams that work together across disciplines to ‘Educate’ about One Health and One Health issues. It does this by leading and facilitating active One Health education initiatives around the world. It is the parent organization for the One Health Education Task Force.   www.onehealthcommission.org The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team was originally established in 2006-2007.  The One Health Initiative website, originated October 2008, has been called the international clearing house for significant One Health information and by some the New York Times of One Health.” Its world-wide circulation has been strengthened by its up-to-date One Health News, Publications and Upcoming Events postings relative to animal, human and environmental health.  It is currently estimated to be accessed monthly by roughly 20,000 individual visitors from over 150 countries.  The OHI website is known to have had at least 119 reciprocal links worldwide.  Among the leading high profile search engines the One Health Initiative website is listed first or among the first when either “One Health Initiative” or “One Health” are searched. www.onehealthinitiative.com  

One Health EcoHealth 2016 December 3-7, 2016, Melbourne, Australia The 4th International One Health Congress & 6th Biennial Congress of the International Congress for Ecology and Health Please see important Abstract Submissions Notice: http://oheh2016.org/abstract-submission/

South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education George R. Lueddeke, Gretchen E. Kaufmann, Laura H. Kahn, Rosina C. Krecek, A. Lee Willingham, Cheryl M. Stroud, Johann M. Lindenmayer, Bruce Kaplan, Lisa A. Conti, Thomas P. Monath, John Woodall Lueddeke G, Kaufmann G, Kahn L, Krecek R, Willingham A, Stroud C, Lindenmayer J, Kaplan B, Conti L, Monath T, Woodall J. Preparing society to create the world we need through ‘One Health’ education. SEEJPH 2016, Vol. 6. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-122 Abstract Growing concerns about a threatened environment, conflicts, inequities, poverty, ideological extremes, and consumerism  are all indicative of a pressing need to reflect on the global status quo and to find constructive and long-term, sustainable strategies for planet and people. The need to give the younger generation “a better deal” for helping to shape a sustainable world has been embraced by the global One Health Commission (OHC) in association with the One Health Initiative (OHI). Envisioning a program that provides funding for national and global One Health-themed educational projects, One Health leaders - in collaboration with partners - call for collective action by legislators, public / private educators, and public health professionals to support the development and implementation of progressive and comprehensive global One Health learning opportunities. One Health (and well-being) projects led by teachers who want to make a difference could begin in primary/secondary schools and extend through graduate and professional education. The overall intent of the concept paper is to raise awareness about the urgent need for the development  and to explore the concept further through a small pre-project proposal conference  (possibly off and/or on-line) with a view to fleshing out a strong plan to fund the envisioned global learning program. ... Acknowledgement: This commentary was first published in the South Eastern Journal of Public Health, Volume VI, 2016 Permission granted to re-publish in other journals by the exec editor: Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH Section of International Public Health (S-IPH) Faculty of Health Sciences University of Bielefeld POB 10 01 31 D-33501 Bielefeld E-mail: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de; laaseru@gmail.com Website: https://branded.me/ulrich-laaser/ SEEJPH: www.seejph.com On Facebook: www.facebook.com/ulrich.laaser.9 On Twitter: @laaseru On Skype: laaseru http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/122

BioMed Central – Open Access: June 3, 2016 Teaching disease ecology to expose the medical professionals of the future to One Health Krisztian Magori [PhD] explains how he used a disease ecology capstone class to expose the medical professionals of the future to the concepts and topics of disease ecology and One Health including relevant student research projects. … Krisztian Magori Editor at BugBitten Read more at http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2016/06/03/teaching-disease-ecology-expose-medical-professionals-future-one-health/

 “ANIMAL TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES” THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE  5-22 September, 2016  Application Requirements Aimed to public veterinarians involved in administration, control and eradicating of infectious diseases, export and import of animals and products of animal origin, farm animal and poultry practitioners and laboratory specialists involved in diagnosis of contagious animal diseases. Course participants must have a relevant academic degree and at least three years of practical work experience. A very good command of the English language is essential.  Application forms Application forms and other information may be obtained at the nearest Israeli mission and at Israels Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: http://mashav.mfa.gov.il (in Contact Us → Information and Registration). Completed application forms, including the medical form should be sent to the Israeli mission in your area and also faxed or e-mailed to the CINADCO Training Center in Israel: Fax no: +972 3 9485771 / e-mail: sigalp@moag.gov.il by or before July 18th, 2016.  Provided by : Sébastien FAYE Chargé du Développement Durable & Affaires Culturelles Ambassade d’Isra§×l, Dakar - Senegal (+221) 33 8233561/65 http://mashav.mfa.gov.il

Watch for A Momentous One Health Book to be published in August 2016...  -Johns Hopkins University Press- One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance By *Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP Zoonoses—infectious diseases, such as SARS and mad cow, that originate in animals and spread to humans—reveal how intimately animal and human health are linked. Complicating this relationship further, when livestock are given antibiotics to increase growth, it can lead to resistant bacteria. Unfortunately, there are few formal channels for practitioners of human medicine and veterinary medicine to communicate about threats to public health. To address this problem, Dr. Laura H. Kahn and her colleagues are promoting the One Health concept, which seeks to increase communication and collaboration between professionals in human, animal, and environmental health. … SEE MORE at https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/one-health-and-politics-antimicrobial-resistance *Dr. Kahn, a physician http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/LauraKahnBiographyFeb2015.pdf, is also a co-founder of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team [Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH] and One Health Initiative website www.onehealthinitiative.com.

A significant One Health approach... Preparing Society to Create the World We Need through One Health Education Concept Paper – Please see attached PDF http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/25.05.16OneHealthConceptPaper.pdf or http://goo.gl/bx7Ti5 This proposed One Health education initiative focuses on the development and implementation of progressive and comprehensive global One Health learning opportunities beginning in K-12 and extending through graduate and professional education.  To this end, the One Health Commission www.onehealthcommission.org in association with the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team www.onehealthinitiative.com has jointly established a One Health Education Task Force with two main aims:  to develop a scoping and concept paper to underpin a proposed education project (please see attached/ ref #9); to identify organizations which might be interested in helping to clarify project aims, objectives and strategies in order to shape the project proposal at a future proposal development conference.