One Health Publications

Sharing News gathered in October 2021 and Celebrating One Health Day 2021

 The next generation of health professionals demand immediate change to prevent future pandemics!

[One Health approach needed!!]

G20 Health and Finance Ministers announced the establishment of a Joint Finance-Health Task Force in line with One Health principles 

by *Richard Seifman – Board Member, United Nations Association-National Capital Area

October 31, 2021

in  Health, Politics & Foreign Affairs

*Member One Health Initiative team Advisory Board

“The goal of the One Health Day is to build the cultural will necessary for a change in how planetary health challenges are assessed and addressed and how professionals exchange information across disciplines.

Initiated in 2016 by the One Health Commission, the One Health Platform, and the One Health Initiative Team, the International One Health Day is officially celebrated around the world every year on November 3.

Since 2017 the International One Health Day celebration has been used to increase awareness among policymakers and strongly advocate for the adoption of the One Health approach. …”

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See One Health Day Press Release: https://conta.cc/3ohAuZO

Abstract

Background: Nipah virus (NiV) first emerged in 1998 in Malaysia, causing an outbreak of respiratory illness and encephalitis in pigs. Pig-to-human transmission of NiV associated with severe febrile encephalitis was described, and it was thought to occur through close contact with infected animals. The first outbreak was reported in India in Siliguri, West Bengal in 2001 followed by Nadia, West Bengal and adjoining areas of Bangladesh in 2007, where an intermediate animal host was not identified, suggesting bat-to-human and human-to-human transmissions. Although it is extremely difficult to document the spillover event and ascertain crossing of trans-natural boundaries by bats and bringing new viruses in an unexposed population, efforts for source identification are important to understand the epidemiology of disease. As the disease transcends beyond one species and has shown to infect humans, it therefore requires the ‘One Health approach’ in which multiple sectors coordinate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.  …  Findings & Conclusion: The evidence of NiV in humans and bats, with samples collected from the outbreak sites, was laboratory confirmed. The multidisciplinary response mechanisms during the 2018 outbreak helped in further understanding the importance of the One Health approach for systemic and streamlined response utilizing existing surveillance systems. This was of utmost help in the subsequent outbreak of the disease that occurred during 2019, wherein there was no documented spread of disease from the index case and no mortality was observed. This success reiterates the need for institutionalizing the involvement and cooperation of various departments and organizations during public health emergencies, especially of Zoonotic diseases, using the One Health approach.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General, World Health Organization:

First, we need to recognise that global health security begins with strong primary healthcare as the foundation of universal health coverage. That means a well-paid and well-trained health workforce, with adequate protective equipment and supplies, and facilities for hand hygiene.

It means a health system that has earned the trust of the communities it serves, including in disadvantaged urban and rural areas.

Second, we need better financing for national and global preparedness and response. That includes a substantial increase in domestic investment, as well as in international financing to support low- and lower-middle-income countries, so that they can provide surveillance, laboratory, risk communication and contact tracing capacity, and preparedness systems using a One Health approach.

Third, we need better global governance. The existing global health security architecture is complex and fragmented, and voluntary mechanisms have not worked. …”

“ … Building forward better means strengthening primary health systems at the community level and achieving universal health coverage, so people can receive a range of services — no matter who they are or where they live. It means embracing a “One Health” approach to integrate human, animal and environmental health to protect people and our planet, while preventing future health emergencies. …”

How the concept of One Health draws a path towards a more sustainable world – Excerpt from George Lueddeke’s latest book SURVIVAL

By Dr. Michael W. Fox*

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller.

“ . . . ONE HEALTH AND THE RECOVERY OF OUR SANITY AND EARTH

The recovery of our sanity and humanity to make informed, science and ethics-based decisions for the greater good and the good of the Commons will help heal us, the planet and all our relations. This One Health initiative must be the primary agenda of civil society which I pray every nation state and community will embrace and include under the rule of law.( For details visit https://www.onehealthinitiative.com) . Nature is not something that is separate from us: We are part of Nature. When we poison the environment is it no surprise to find poisons in mothers’ wombs and milk?

. . .  would be a good beginning toward living in harmony with all life, the spiritual root of One Health and the antidote to our pathogenic anthropocentrism. Indeed, Global Sustainability via a One Health approach as a moral compass is critical to our planet’s survival and thereby ourselves.”

*The author is a veterinarian with doctoral degrees in ethology/animal behavior and medical science from the University of London, England. He is a member of the British Veterinary Association, Honor Roll member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and writes the U.S. syndicated newspaper column Animal Doctor. He acknowledges the helpful comments by Dr. Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Dipl. AVES (Hon.), CDC/EIS63 Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative Website, Co-Founder One Health Initiative team/website in the completion of this article.

SEE https://drfoxonehealth.com/post/a-reflection-on-animals-nature-and-the-human-condition/ via https://drfoxonehealth.com/tags/public-health/

Medicines

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OHNL 2021 – VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2

The event leads to G20 recommendations in the pursuit of operationalising One Health: an increase in the numbers of animal health workforce as well as providing effective training and upskilling; access to a reliable supply of safe and effective medicines to treat animals, as well as vaccines to prevent zoonotic, and non-zoonotic disease; work with animal owners to support a global early warning surveillance system that proactively identifies risk; development, implementation and resourcing of national one health plans that encourage the pooling of resources between human health, animal health and environmental health. Side event promoted by Action for Animal Health coalition.

BY *Dr. George R. Lueddeke [Ph.D., MEd, Dipl. AVES (Hon.)] is an education advisor in higher, medical and One Health education and leads the international One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE) in association with national and global organisations.

*Member One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board

Will decision-makers have the political will and leadership capacity to make the world more sustainable or will self-interest prevail?  – Excerpt from George Lueddeke’s Latest Book SURVIVAL

The One Health Initiative team has been notified that the most recent First Edition of “One Health” journals, the “Journal of One Health and Implementation Research”, Volume 1, Issue 1, an Open-Access” journal has been published and can be read at https://ohirjournal.com/journal/archives.

There are six articles in the first issue of the journal. You may refer to detailed individual article information in https://onehealthinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/One-Health-Implementation-Research-volume-1-issue-1.docx.

Provided October 8, 2021 by:

Hanlie Su, Editor of the journal One Health & Implementation Research, with the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jorg Heukelbach

GLOBAL HEALTH

By Vince Chadwick, Jenny Lei Ravelo // 16 September 2021

“… Martin McKee, chair of the commission’s scientific advisory board, told reporters that the most important recommendation is to embed the concept of “one health” — recognizing the importance of addressing threats to human health but also plants, animals, and the environment — at all levels.

This will require better coordination and collaboration among international agencies, such as WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Organisation for Animal Health, also known as OIE. But the commission stopped short of recommending a merger of some of these institutions, as had been advocated by some members. …

… “But ultimately each of these organisations has responsibilities beyond those that intersect and has its own policy and knowledge community to work with and bring to the One Health table — and a full merger could make it harder rather than easier to bring all these domains together,” he wrote. …”

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