One Health Publications

‘One Medicine-One Health’: an historic perspective

August 13, 2024

D.A.Henderson, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Resident Scholar, Center for Biosecurity, U. of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor. Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pier IV Building, Suite 210, Baltimore, Maryland

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April 22, 2007 Dr. D. A. Henderson, [late] legendary leader of the worldwide smallpox eradication program. [email message to One Health Initiative team]

I thank you for your email and congratulate you and your colleagues in promoting the “One Medicine” concept. It is an initiative that is long overdue but, at the same time, I don’t personally identify dramatic solutions that are apt to change the landscape in the short term. I would note that when one has had the good fortune to have enjoyed the tutelage of Jim Steele during my tenure at CDC and periodically ever since, as a friend, the one medicine concept becomes well engrained. Indeed, when I came to Hopkins as Dean in 1977, I cast about to determine how we might link up with a veterinary school for research and educational purposes. Unfortunately, geography was simply too great a hurdle to overcome.

Bottom line: I would be more than happy to do whatever I could in support of your efforts.

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Other supporters and a historic milestone:

Present & Former Surgeon General Supporters of “One Health”

General Gale S. Pollock
Acting Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS
USPHS Surgeon General 2002-2006

C. Everette Koop, MD, ScD
USPHS Surgeon General 1981-1989

Photo by Joseph L. Murphy, MD

Important “One Health” 21st-century History:

June 2007- American Medical Association Meeting during “One Health” resolution
testimony.  Historic resolution subsequently adopted. (see publication link)

Left to right: Ronald M. Davis, MD, President AMA, Roger K. Mahr, DVM, President, American Veterinary Medical Association and Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP of Princeton University.

The AMA “One Health” resolution was originally drafted by Dr. Kahn under Dr. Davis’s guidance. Thomas P. Monath, MD and Bruce Kaplan, DVM assisted.  The historic “One Health” liaison between AVMA and AMA [in effect today] was fostered by collaboration between Drs. Mahr and Davis.

SEE: Endorsements – One Health Initiative

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‘It is a when, not an if’: Preparing leaders for the next pandemic – Guelph News (guelphtoday.com)

August 12, 2024

“…Collaboration, co-leadership at the forefront

Using One Health, an approach that looks at human, animal and ecosystem health more holistically, the new COHTPEZ project is a vision of a connected community of leaders across academic, public and private sectors. It will build a highly skilled workforce that will learn from one another and see complex problems through a systems-level lens.  …”

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pH-independent effects of acid suppressants in dogs and cats: a One Health perspective and case for further investigation in: American Journal of Veterinary Research – Ahead of print (avma.org)

August 10, 2024

Conclusions

Acid-suppressant drugs are commonly prescribed, but their pH-independent effects are poorly understood.1,2,120 Further exploration into these pH-independent effects would allow clinicians to tailor ASD treatment for disease processes and to monitor for and detect possible adverse effects. While the body of human medical evidence on these issues is more robust, many of these studies focus on healthy or artificially induced models of disease. Therefore, both human and veterinary medicine could benefit from a One Health approach to investigation of these pH-independent effects of ASDs in naturally occurring diseases in veterinary companion animals.

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Andhra Pradesh Social Workers Association (APSA) offers tech support to State govt – The Hans India

August 4, 2024

The Hans India

… action plan for the ‘One Health‘ approach, an initiative

 

HIGHLIGHTS The Andhra Pradesh Social Workers Association (APSA) offered technical support to the State government in formulating an appropriate action plan for the ‘One Health’ approach, an initiative highlighted by the World Health Organisation and the Union government.

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The Story of the Rift Valley Fever Virus Vaccine – “A One Health in action”

August 4, 2024

At a glance

By collaborating effectively with individuals from many fields, public health professionals can prevent outbreaks of RVF and better protect the health of people. When professionals from different disciplines work together to protect the health of people and animals, this is One Health in action.

Background

In late 1997, a disease outbreak began in East Africa. In three months, 90,000 people became sick and almost 500 people died. Many animals in the region also died, causing economic difficulties for the people who relied on these animals for milk, meat, and as a trading commodity. The loss of human lives and animals was devastating for the communities. The cause of this outbreak was the Rift Valley fever virus.

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What is the One Health approach?

August 3, 2024

The health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems is closely interconnected. Any change in relations among them can increase the risk of new human and animal diseases developing and spreading. One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of persons, animals, and ecosystems. Find out more about the One Health approach in this video produced by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Italian health authority and research organization in the fields of animal health, food safety and zoonoses.

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UTMB One Health Newsletter – Issue 29, August 2024

August 1, 2024

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

 

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OHI team Editor Comments: Please see UTMB One Health Collaborators, an excellent all inclusive interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary example of how current and future medical schools  may consider institutionalizing the ideal One Health concept/approach.  The objective being

One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.

One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.

 

Between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines–nor should there beThe object is different but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine.”

 —Rudolf Virchow, MD (the father of cellular pathology)–

Notably among One-Medicine-One-Health-An-Historic-Perspective-REVISED-SEPT1-2022-from-FEB1-2021.pdf (onehealthinitiative.com) is …

Gray, Gregory, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Gregory Gray, MD, MPH

Another remarkable trailblazer physician One Health contributor has been and is Dr. Gregory Gray. Among many extraordinary One Health accomplishments including a Newsletter at Duke University (USA), prior thereto Dr. Gray established the first PhD degree with a concentration in One Health, while directing the University of Florida’s One Health program.  Prof. Gray left Duke and launched an extraordinary One Health Program at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, TX (USA).

 

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