“Second International Workshop on One Health Research: Improving Food Security and Resilience.”

Galveston, Texas — April 15-17, 2026

SEE: https://www.utmb.edu/one-health/news-events/OH-symposium/welcome

“The Importance of Vaccines

October 1, 2025 By Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

The goal of public health is to prevent disease. In 1800, over 46 percent of children in the U.S. did not survive past age 5 years. By 2020, the percentage plummeted to single digits. The graphics are stunning. Along with improvements in sanitation and hygiene, vaccines have been essential for this achievement.

Gone are the days in which parents lived in fear that their children would die from childhood diseases such as diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus (lockjaw), and polio.

Every summer during the mid-20th century, polio would appear raising so much terror that many parents would flee town with their children, hoping to protect them from permanent disability or death.

The parents of the 21st century have been spared these terrors. Cases and deaths from tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis have plummeted along with other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Polio cases and deaths have largely vanished except for a few cases in Pakistan, Angola, and Nigeria, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

Tragically, measles is experiencing a resurgence because of a flawed paper that falsely linked the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. Subsequent misinformation campaigns have resulted in parents refusing to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine.

What led to this fiasco?  …”

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

“America’s Retreat from reliance on public health science hurts us all.”

by One Health Initiative:   September 26, 2025 in Health

Health  24th September 2025

Also see:

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule can be found here.

Helmholtz Institute for One Health celebrates laying of foundation stone in Greifswald

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS

“The psychological bond between humans and animals and the psychological effect of spending time outdoors and in contact with nature appears to have important health consequences. Research has indicated that pet ownership can be associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic health problems. Contact with nature such as walking in a park or hiking in the wilderness also appears to have positive health effects.

The strength of the human-animal bond can be seen in people who refuse to leave pets behind when being evacuated during a natural disaster and in people facing homelessness who decide to keep their pets with them at all times.

Better understanding of the human-animal bond can help facilitate efforts to improve the health of people and animals.  …”