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• It is expected that climate change will adversely affect Nepalese biodiversity, human well-being, and economy, from a retreat of glaciers, agricultural losses, and impacts on tourism.
• The spread of infectious diseases can also be fueled by rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns.
• “Given the simultaneous exposure of animal and human populations to climate change impacts such as floods and landslides, proactively preparing for and combating ensuing issues like epidemics are best tackled using an integrated One Health approach,” a new op-ed argues.
• This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily Mongabay.

“… Next steps are needed

This July 2023 CBSS Declaration, coupled with the German Government commitment of 100 million Euros to begin the process, reflects high-level attention and interest in transiting from rhetoric to concrete action.

For too long now, the Baltic Sea and all the people around it have been waiting for the removal of such dangers to human, animal, and environmental health – the very essence of the issues the One Health approach addresses. And, commercial activities, in particular shipping, will finally be made safer. 

The CBSS Declaration contains promising statements, but it is in the follow-up and implementation that is the true test.

Given that funding has been made available by Germany, there is reason to believe that concrete steps will be taken to remove this very real threat.  Let us hope so.”

Conclusions

This article proposes to foster an academic community for One Health action, which is expected to incorporate the experience of a diverse variety of experts and stakeholders, who will be organized under the structure of SCC and SSC. Overarching research agenda followed by specific workplans and activities has been elaborated in this article, based on the exchanges and consensus of SSC. Multifaceted approach, that involves systematic thinking, evidence-based activities, transparent mechanisms, education, and communication, should be adapted profoundly in building up the community.

With the tasks of promoting wider and deeper collaboration in research and practice, the community will contribute to producing novel scientific evidence, facilitating dialogues among different stakeholders, and advising for national and international policy, in its efforts to tackle global public health security at the human-animal-environment interface.

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

Provided by:

Brianna Kreditor, MPH

Research Associate II, Internal Med-Infectious Diseases

UTMB One Health Laboratory

Department of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

The University of Texas Medical Branch

301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0435

E brkredit@utmb.edu

UTMB One Health

Abstract

“AVOHS Goal Statement: The goal of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to celebrate and honor accomplished leaders in the disciplines of public health, animal health, plant health, environmental health, and all related fields falling under the discipline of One Health.”

Formerly, American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (avesociety.org)
www.facebook.com/embracingOneHealthsince1964

Please join me in congratulating our new Gold Headed Cane recipients and our new Honorary Diplomates inducted on Monday 17 July 2023 at the AVMA Conference in Denver, CO (USA):

Gold Headed Cane awardees:

Dr. John Kaneene

Dr. Jonna Mazet

Honorary Diplomates:

Dr. John de Jong

Dr. Conrad Estrada

Dr. Katherine Flynn

Dr. Nancy Frank

Dr. Alice Green

Ms. Barbara Martin

Dr. Stephanie Mont

Dr. Ade Ojeniyi

Dr. Steven Osofsky

Dr. Ron Warner

The other exciting news is that the AVES membership has voted to change our organization’s name from AVES to the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) to better reflect our vision, mission, and goals.

Dr. John Poppe, AVOHS (formerly AVES) Executive Director said, “The reasoning behind the change was to: Better reflect the AVES mission and vision – our focus and our awards reflect many disciplines that go well beyond veterinary epidemiology.  AVES was the earliest “One Health” organization – well before the term became so prevalent and broadly accepted.  We think [our founder] James Steele would support this change.”  Indeed, Dr. Steele played an iconic passionate intellectual role in the evolutionary history of the One Health movement.

Incoming (and first) AVOHS Board President-Elect, Dr. Karen Becker, having been a close friend to and mentored by Dr. Steele said, “The change from the American Epidemiology Society to the American Veterinary One Health Society reflects consensus among Board Members that One Health encompasses far more than Epidemiology as is demonstrated by the breadth and depth of experts being recognized by and contributing to our mission.  Jim Steele would have fully approved of the name change as a progressive and visionary leader who loved change, especially when it was wholly justified.”

Mission, Vision, and Goal Statements – Adopted July 9, 2023

AVOHS Vision Statement: The vision of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to achieve optimal health of animals, people, plants, and the environment through science-based One Health principles.

AVOHS Mission Statement: The mission of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to promote and advance the health of animals, people, plants, and the environment using a One Health approach.

AVOHS Goal Statement: The goal of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to celebrate and honor accomplished leaders in the disciplines of public health, animal health, plant health, environmental health, and all related fields falling under the discipline of One Health.

This new brand image, by definition, recognizes the wide spectrum, all inclusive One Health umbrella of disciplines required for more expeditious and efficacious advancement of global public health and clinical health care research issues.

John Poppe, DVM, MPH, MA
AVOHS Executive Director
aves.exec@outlook.com
210-749-0714
American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (avesociety.org)
www.facebook.com/embracingOneHealthsince1964

American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS)  

Formerly, American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (avesociety.org)
www.facebook.com/embracingOneHealthsince1964

Denver, Colorado (USA) July 17, 2023: The American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES), founded by 20^th and early 21^st century apex global public health leader Dr. James H. Steele in 1964, has formally unveiled its name [American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS)] and logo change at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association Convention in order to clarify its overall longstanding underlying expanded mission as being the promotion of the national and international One Health concept/approach.

 Dr. John Poppe, AVOHS (formerly AVES) Executive Director said, “The reasoning behind the change was to: Better reflect the AVES mission and vision – our focus and our awards reflect many disciplines that go well beyond veterinary epidemiology.  AVES was the earliest “One Health” organization – well before the term became so prevalent and broadly accepted.  We think [our founder] James Steele would support this change.”  Indeed, Dr. Steele played an iconic passionate intellectual role in the evolutionary history of the One Health movement.

Incoming (and first) AVOHS Board President-Elect, Dr. Karen Becker, having been a close friend to and mentored by Dr. Steele said, “The change from the American Epidemiology Society to the American Veterinary One Health Society reflects consensus among Board Members that One Health encompasses far more than Epidemiology as is demonstrated by the breadth and depth of experts being recognized by and contributing to our mission.  Jim Steele would have fully approved of the name change as a progressive and visionary leader who loved change, especially when it was wholly justified.”

Mission, Vision, and Goal Statements

Adopted July 9, 2023

AVOHS Vision Statement: The vision of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to achieve optimal health of animals, people, plants, and the environment through science-based One Health principles.

AVOHS Mission Statement: The mission of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to promote and advance the health of animals, people, plants, and the environment using a One Health approach.

 AVOHS Goal Statement: The goal of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS) is to celebrate and honor accomplished leaders in the disciplines of public health, animal health, plant health, environmental health, and all related fields falling under the discipline of One Health.

This new brand image, by definition, recognizes the wide spectrum, all inclusive One Health umbrella of disciplines required for more expeditious and efficacious advancement of global public health and clinical health care research issues:

Notably, on April 22, 2007, Dr. D. A. Henderson, legendary leader of the worldwide smallpox eradication program addressed the One Health Initiative Team

 D.A. Henderson, MD, MPH saying …

I thank you for your email and congratulate you and your colleagues in promoting the “One Medicine” concept [now called “One Health”]. 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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* In 1947, Dr. Steele founded the Veterinary Public Health Division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  One Health was instituted at CDC in 2009 by prominent AVOHS Board member Lonnie King, DVM, MS, MPA.  Dr. King, then director of CDC’s National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne, and Enteric Diseases, proposed the One Health Office. The office was created as a point of contact for external animal health organizations and to maximize external funding opportunities. Since that time, the role of the One Health Office has expanded to include supporting public health research that furthers the One Health concept, facilitating the exchange of data and information among researchers across disciplines and sectors.

For more information, contact …

AVOHS Executive Director, Dr. (BG) John Poppe, 206 Springwood Lane, San Antonio, TX 78216; Phone: 210-749-0714; Email: aves.exec@outlook.com

Editor’s Note: The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team strongly supports and collaborates closely with the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS)

“Discussions around ensuring safe and sustainable wild species trade took the limelight during the COVID pandemic and the CITES and CBD COPs, so now we must keep up the momentum, and the world must take this prime opportunity to combine multi-convention targets through a One Health Approach.”

As we approach the midpoint to deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, TRAFFIC flags that biodiversity is still not sufficiently integrated into the implementation of the SDGs.

“ … The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW)’s guiding principles outlined at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic supported practical and scientifically informed responses in a time of crisis.

Resource mobilisation is urgently needed for transformative change. A powerful step in the right direction comes from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approving plans for a ‘game-changing’ global biodiversity fund.

But more must be done on a national level to support implementations throughout the monitoring of supply chains. At the ground level, the private sector must step up and play a pivotal role in supporting multi-disciplinary collaborations (as exemplified by the One Health Quadripartite) through financial support and guide implementation through strong leadership. …”

“A goal to improve lives around the world by integrating aspects of human medicine and veterinary and environmental sciences drew research scientists and other experts from dozens of countries to a symposium held this week at Oklahoma State University.

The Institute for Translational and Emerging Research in Advanced Comparative Therapy’s symposium, hosted by OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, featured more than 40 speakers from around the globe and drew attendees from no fewer than 23 nations.

The symposium’s focus was on a “One Health, One Medicine” approach. A goal of attendees, organizers said, has been to speed implementation of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches used to address chronic diseases in human and veterinary medicine.  …”

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | July 13, 2023

SEE: Official Journal of The World Medical Association, Inc. Nr. 2, June 2023, Vol. 69

‘One Medicine−One Health’: An Historic Perspective by One Health Initiative team, Pages 18 -27.

“… From a young age, I developed a deep fascination with the impact of infectious diseases on society, which led me to pursue a degree in microbiology at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where I graduated with First Class Honours in 2018. Throughout my academic journey, I engaged in diverse internships in medical diagnostics and animal health, gaining valuable insights into global infectious disease threats spanning environmental health, food safety, zoonosis, and antimicrobial resistance. These experiences ignited my passion for advocating the One Health approach, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between environmental, animal, and human health sectors to effectively address these pressing issues. …”

Abstract

Aim: A global Train-the-Trainer Program, focused on improving the communication techniques of One Health advocates, is assessed and evaluated in this study.

Methods: Between November 2020 and November 2022, a Train-the-Trainer Program engaged 1.583 trainees from 98 countries between the ages of 18 and 74. Trainees practiced public speaking by teaching a lesson about One Health in mostly underserved primary school classrooms. Two surveys of trainees (n = 222 and 203) assessed the impact of the Program’s orientation session on their confidence in science communication to a novice audience. The classroom teacher survey (n = 184 teachers, representing 4.109 students) measured the trainee’s impact at the community level during and following the lesson.

Results: The Program significantly improved the trainee’s confidence in communicating science (0.1 scale points) and teaching novice audiences (0.3 scale points) about One Health. Trainees cultivated student interest in One Health [median = 9 (7.3, 10)] and 90.8% of responding classroom teachers reported a desire to continue teaching about One Health after the trainee’s lesson, 99.1% noted a post-lesson increase in student interest in science, and 97.4% recommended this lesson to their colleagues.

Conclusion: This study was the first to evaluate an extensive One Health-focused communication program finding the model effective for trainees and communities alike. The trainees, through public speaking, active teaching and engaging mostly primary school students, mainstreamed One Health and inspired action in communities. The classroom teachers benefited by learning about One Health and gained a desire to share this new knowledge with others in their community.

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