One Health News

A message worth repeating...from November 22, 2012

 From The World Medical Association

One Health Initiative: World medical Association and World Veterinary Association

Please see https://www.wma.net/blog-post/one-health-initiative-wma-and-wva/

ONE HEALTH DAY 2018 STUDENT EVENT COMPETITION WINNERS -

ROSS U AND FEDERAL U of RIO de JANEIRO

One Health Day is celebrated internationally on the 3rd of November every year through  One Health educational events held around the world. The 2018 Third Annual global One Health Day generated over 119 events in over 30 countries. Officially launched in 2016 by three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team and the One Health Platform Foundation, this initiative has grown into a global platform for One Health advocates to educate about One Health and One Health topics. Anyone, from academic to private to corporate to governmental agencies can lead One Health Day events and are urged to register them to get on the One Health Day map. 

Students are especially encouraged to envision and implement One Health Day events, and, if desired, to enter them into an annual competition for cash prizes for the best student-led initiatives in each of four global regions. While One Health events happening anywhere and anytime of the year can be registered to celebrate One Health Day, in order to compete student-led events must take place between 1 September and November 30th. These student-led events  reflect not only how the One Health message is spreading across the world, but also how students are able to cross disciplinary boundaries and work together towards a common goal. 

Accordingly, it is with great excitement that the One Health Day Coordinating Team announces the winning student teams for 2018.  Awards of $2,000 each will go to the student teams at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM), St. Kitts, West Indies and the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brazil. The team from RUSVM organised a week-long series of workshops, lectures and special events focused on promoting the One Health concept. The team from Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro organised a well-attended University-wide event that encouraged professionals from distinct areas to adopt One Health approaches in their professional activities and in their research projects. Additionally, a Special Recognition Award of $500 will go to a team from the University of Rwanda whose ‘Rapid Response to Rift Valley Fever Outbreak’ Project promoted the use of vaccines and hygiene by taking a One Health Approach. Student teams wishing to compete are urged to closely follow competition instructions for their events to qualify.

About One Health Day

One Health Day answers the urgent need for a One Health trans-disciplinary approach towards solving today’s critical global health challenges. It is a timely initiative that gives scientists and advocates a powerful voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative/ translational medicine and many other problems, to a holistic default way of doing business.

About One Health

One Health is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations, in both research and applied sciences, between animal, environmental and human health arenas including chemical, engineering and social scientists, dentists, nurses, agriculturalists and food producers, wildlife and environmental health specialists and many other related disciplines. As early as 2010 the World Bank recognized and published documentary evidence supporting benefits of a One Health approach in disease prevention, public health and global security. Today, the One Health approach is being increasingly accepted by numerous major international organizations such as the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Veterinary Association (WVA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Chatham House and the Interaction Council. Many other supporting organizations can be found at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

4 April 2018     For Immediate Release

THIRD ANNUAL ONE HEALTH DAY INTRODUCES EXCITING UPDATES

2018 EDITION LAUNCHED TODAY BY THREE INTERNATIONAL ONE HEALTH GROUPS

3 November is the official observance date of the annual global One Health Day.  Launched in April 2016 by three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, and the One Health Platform Foundation, One Health Day raises awareness about the One Health approach to complex health problems involving people, animals and the environment. One Health Day has grown into a sustainable platform for One Health supporters around the world to educate about One Health and One Health issues in their locals.

Today, the three global partners launch promotions of the 2018 One Health Day campaign, calling upon individuals and groups from around the world to implement One Health educational projects and awareness events under its auspices. Anyone, from academia to government to corporate to private individuals can plan and implement a One Health Day Event which can be organized any time of the year and does not have to fall right on 3 November (unless participating in the student events competition).

The global One Health Day Events webpage and map provides an impressive account of registered One Health Day events. Online registration is free of charge and yields special benefits: promotion on the One Health Day website, free use of the One Health Day logo and other materials and –a new benefit in 2018 – the chance for a surprise visit by a renowned One Health leader at selected One Health Day events. These surprise visitors will bring energy and excitement to the selected events by adding the weight of their One Health personality and scientific renown. Event organizers are encouraged to register as early as possible for a chance to be selected.

To emphasize and encourage the next generation of One Health experts, multi-disciplinary student groups can again compete for cash prizes and global recognition. This year the criteria for competing student groups have been slightly relaxed. Student Teams are required to provide ‘student in good standing’ letters from their university, register their event 2 weeks prior to and submit a specified post-event summary. Four Student Competition awards of $2,000 will go to the top event in each of four global regions so students are encouraged to begin planning now!

Contact(s):
Cheryl Stroud, +1 984-500-8593 (USA), cstroud@onehealthcommission.org
Chris Vanlangendonck, +32 475 81 38 59 (Belgium), c.vanlangendonck@onehealthplatform.com

www.onehealthday.org

About One Health Day

One Health Day answers the urgent need for a One Health trans-disciplinary approach towards solving today’s critical global health challenges. It is a timely initiative that gives scientists and advocates a powerful voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative/ translational medicine and many other problems, to a holistic default way of doing business.

About One Health

 One Health is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations, in both research and applied sciences, between human and animal health arenas, chemical, engineering and social scientists, dentists, nurses, agriculturalists and food producers, wildlife and environmental health specialists and many other related disciplines, assembled under the One Health umbrella. As early as 2010 the World Bank recognized and published documentary evidence supporting benefits of a One Health approach in disease prevention, public health and global security and recently reiterated the criticality of making it the global default way of thinking and acting. Today, the One Health approach is being increasingly accepted by numerous major international organizations such as the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Veterinary Association (WVA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Many other supporting organizations can be found at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php

26 February 2018     

Contact(s):

Cheryl Stroud, +1 984-500-8593 (USA), cstroud@onehealthcommission.org

Chris Vanlangendonck, +32 475 81 38 59 (Belgium), c.vanlangendonck@onehealthplatform.com

STUDENT TEAMS FROM MAKERERE  AND IOWA STATE WIN THE 2017 ONE HEALTH DAY STUDENT EVENT COMPETITION

The second annual global One Health Day, held on 3 November 2017, generated over 110 events in over 28 countries. Officially launched in April 2016 by three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, and the One Health Platform Foundation, this initiative has grown into an annual, global platform for One Health advocates to educate about One Health and One Health challenges. While One Health events happening any time of the year can be registered to celebrate One Health Day, competing student led events must happen within a September 1 to November 30 window.

Today, the One Health Day Coordinating Team enthusiastically announces the winners of the 2017 One Health Day Student Events Competition. Competing groups had to meet a set of qualifying criteria and were required to submit a post-event summary. The One Health Day organizers were impressed with the work of the Student Event teams, and, based on an objective assessment, two teams are each being awarded a $2,000 prize. The winning 2017 One Health Day Student Event Competition teams are: the Makerere University One Health Student Innovation Club, which organized a Rabies Vaccination and Awareness Campaign in Uganda, and Iowa One Health for organizing the second Iowa One Health Conference.

Prizes will be officially awarded during a live event at the 5^th International One Health Congress, which will be held in Saskatoon, Canada, from 22 to 25 June 2018. The 2018 One Health Day Student competition will be launched in early April and will have a slightly different set of requirements.

A special word of thanks goes out to the One Health Day Student Event Judges for lending their names and expertise to this important endeavor:

• Prof. David Heymann, Chatham House, UK
• Prof. Linfa Wang, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
• Prof. Tammi Krecek, Texas University
• Prof. Daniel Lucey, Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)
• Prof. Peter Rabinowitz, Center for One Health Research, University of Washington

More information about One Health Day is available online at www.onehealthday.org

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About One Health Day

One Health Day answers the urgent need for a One Health trans-disciplinary approach towards solving today’s critical global health challenges. It is a timely initiative that gives scientists and advocates a powerful voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative/ translational medicine and many other problems, to a holistic default way of doing business.

About One Health

One Health is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations, in both research and applied sciences, between human and animal health arenas, chemical, engineering and social scientists, dentists, nurses, agriculturalists and food producers, wildlife and environmental health specialists and many other related disciplines, assembled under the One Health umbrella. As early as 2010 the World Bank recognized and published documentary evidence supporting benefits of a One Health approach in disease prevention, public health and global security. Today, the One Health approach is being increasingly accepted by numerous major international organizations such as the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Veterinary Association (WVA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Many other supporting organizations can be found at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Elimination of dog-transmitted Rabies by 2030 targeted -World Veterinary Association (WVA) and World Medical Association (WMA) Joint Press Release - September 27, 2017

“WVA [World Veterinary Association] President, Dr Johnson Chiang said: ‘Rabies control is a multidisciplinary and multidimensional activity. Participation and effective intersectoral cooperation among medical and veterinary professionals from government and academic institutions, civic and local bodies, national and international nongovernmental organizations, and animal welfare organizations is essential’.

WMA [World Medical Association] President, Dr Ketan Desai added: ‘If dog-transmitted rabies is to be eliminated, strengthening legislation concerning pet ownership, reducing the population of stray and unowned free-roaming dogs, broadly implementing dog vaccination programs, and provision of early rabies diagnostic facilities and adequate post-exposure health care are prerequisites. Dog-transmitted rabies elimination is an ideal opportunity to move the ‘One Health’ concept forward’.”

Please see: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/WVA%20WMA%20PR%20WRD%202017.pdf

A One Health viewpoint...

PHYSICIANS in the One Health Vanguard!

The international One Health movement (formerly called One Medicine) cannot flourish without medical doctors (i.e. physicians).  In reality, their leaders fostered it historically...in collaboration(s) with veterinary medical doctors (i.e. veterinarians) and other prominent health scientist-research professionals.

Notable 19^th and early 20^th century One Health physicians include:

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), “Father of Modern Medicine”, one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Among several early associations with veterinary medicine and veterinarians, in 1873, Osler, who had recently received his medical degree from McGill University, left Canada to study with physician Dr. Rudolf Virchow [1821-1902] in Berlin. Virchow impressed upon the young Osler the importance of the autopsy and scientific inquiry in the practice of medicine. Osler returned to Canada in 1874, where he established veterinary pathology as an academic discipline in a North American school of veterinary medicine.

Sir John McFadyean (1853-1941), “Founder Modern Veterinary Research”, a remarkable veterinarian and physician https://goo.gl/5qq8BB, founded the Journal of Comparative Pathology & Therapeutics, built bridges across human and veterinary medical fields in infectious diseases and comparative medicine.  In addition to his degree in veterinary medicine, McFadyean sought to learn the newest and best in science, which led him to enroll at the Faculties of Medicine and Science of Edinburgh University where he earned his human medical degree. Notable for challenging the celebrated German physician and pioneering microbiologist known as the founder of modern bacteriology who gave the first description of the tubercle bacillus in 1882 and surprisingly had stated that no precautions were needed to be taken against milk or flesh from cattle afflicted with tuberculosis because bovine TB differed from the infection found in humans.  McFadyean was subsequently proven right.

Theobald Smith, MD (1859-1934), widely considered to be America's first internationally significant medical research scientist, worked under Dr. Daniel E. Salmon, a veterinarian and Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry.  Smith also discovered the bacterial species which would eventually form the genus Salmonella.  With veterinarian Dr. Frederick L. Kilbourne, Smith discovered that the parasite causing cattle fever, Babesia bigemina, was spread by ticks. This was the first demonstration that a biting arthropod could spread disease, and set the stage for physician Walter Reed and his colleagues to prove a few years later that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever.

FYI, a partial list of modern day 20^th and 21^st century visionary “One Health physician” champions and leaders:

ALL PHYSICIANS ARE ENCOURAGED AND URGED TO ACTIVELY JOIN-PARTICIPATE!  Please help us educate/engage your physician colleagues and friends... “One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”

Bruce Kaplan, DVM

Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative Website

Co-Founder One Health Initiative team [Apr2006-Mar2007]/website [Oct2008]

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

https://goo.gl/DP3UY2  

3 April2017      For Immediate Release

Contact(s):        Peter Costa, +1 984 500 8593 (USA), pcosta@onehealthcommission.org

SECOND ANNUAL “ONE HEALTH DAY” PLANNED BY THREE INTERNATIONAL ONE HEALTH GROUPS

3 NOVEMBER 2017

2016 ONE HEALTH DAY STUDENT COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

The first edition of the global One Health Day, held on 3 November 2016, generated over 150 events in over 35 countries engaging approximately 17,000 participants. Officially launched in April 2016 by three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, and the One Health Platform Foundation, this initiative has grown into an annual, sustainable platform for One Health supporters around the world.

Today, the three leading global partners launch promotion of the 2017 annual One Health Day campaign, calling upon individuals and groups from around the world to implement One Health educational projects and awareness events under the auspices of One Health Day. Regional One Health Day Spokespersons in Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas will continue to liaise with project teams in their respective regions, while a network of One Health Day Country Ambassadors works within their countries to encourage creation of inspiring events. Anyone, from academia to government to corporate to private individuals can plan and implement a One Health Day Event. The events do not have to fall right on November 3. All events should be registered on the webpage to be promoted on the One Health Day website and represented on the global One Health Day Events map.  Student groups from all disciplines can compete for cash prizes and global recognition. Participating teams can have the One Health Day logo translated into a language of their choice. All promotional materials are freely downloadable from the One Health Day website.

The One Health Day organizing team was very pleased to have received numerous outstanding entries for the three 2016 Student Event Competition awards. Competing groups had to meet a set of criteria and were required to submit a post-event summary. The International Evaluation Committee was impressed with the work of the One Health Day Student teams, and the decision process has hence been challenging. Based on an objective assessment by these internationally recognized One Health leaders, three teams will each be awarded a $5,000 prize. The winning 2016 One Health Day Student Event teams are: University of California at Davis, Washington University at St Louis, Missouri and George Washington University in Washington D.C. Two additional $500 One Health Day Planning Team Special Recognition Awards will go to the teams from Makerere University, Uganda, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Student Event awards in 2017 will go to the top event in each of four global regions so students are encouraged to begin planning.

Additional information is available online at www.onehealthday.org

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About One Health Day

One Health Day answers the urgent need for a One Health trans-disciplinary approach towards solving today’s critical global health challenges. It is a timely initiative that gives scientists and advocates a powerful voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative/ translational medicine and many other problems, to a holistic default way of doing business.

About One Health

One Health is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations, in both research and applied sciences, between human and animal health arenas, chemical, engineering and social scientists, dentists, nurses, agriculturalists and food producers, wildlife and environmental health specialists and many other related disciplines, assembled under the One Health umbrella. As early as 2010 the World Bank recognized and published documentary evidence supporting benefits of a One Health approach in disease prevention, public health and global security. Today, the One Health approach is being increasingly accepted by numerous major international organizations such as the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Veterinary Association (WVA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Many other supporting organizations can be found at http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php

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“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 be.”      Rudolf Virchow, MD (the father of cellular pathology)

January 2017 Editorial Commentary

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

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In the prelude to World War II, Winston Churchill quoted Edwin James Milliken’s poem with the final line ‘Death is in charge of the clattering train!’, when he felt that the British parliament was not taking the prospect of a war against Adolph Hitler seriously enough.

“...Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak and the couplings strain,
and the pace is hot and the points are near,
and sleep hath deadened the driver's ear,
and the signals flash through the night in vain,
for death is in charge of the clattering train.”

A COGENT CASE FOR ‘ONE HEALTH’ IMPLEMENTATION...NOW January 2017!

The international community has begun to take the One Health approach seriously, especially during the early 21^st century http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/01%20Kahn%20et%20al%20%205-19%208Mar07.pdf; http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/45_1.htm; http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_3/377.pdf.  This clattering train has been on and off the rails for many decades.  Failure to recognize, accept and fully implement this concept worldwide continues to deter human, animal, and environmental health life protecting and lifesaving advances yet to be applied and/or discovered!  One glaring example of critical need is that of the existential antimicrobial resistance threat discussed by the World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/ and elaborated upon in a recently published book on the subject “One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance” https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/one-health-and-politics-antimicrobial-resistance. 

Over the decades and indeed centuries, there have been and continues to be a vocal significant number of altruistic visionary research minded health scientists and officials within and among the public health, global health, clinical health, i.e. comparative medicine and planetary environmental health communities as well as some international governmental and political leaders that have seen the light...and essentially adopted the One Health approach, e.g. see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php; “7 Prominent U.S. and international individual and organizational One Health Endorsements (multidisciplinary): Jan.- Dec. 2016 http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=7+Prominent+U.S.+and+international+individual+and+organizational+One+Health+Endorsements+%28multidisciplinary%29%3A+Jan.-+Dec.+2016+ and “34 Prominent U.S. and international individual and organizational One Health Endorsements (multidisciplinary) – June 2011 to December 2015” Endorsements (multidisciplinary) – June 2011 to December 2015”

http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One%20Health%20Endorsements%20June%202011%20to%20December%202015.pdf

“One Health” is the pivotal point of how human health, animal health and the environment are inextricably linked.  Moreover, it is a key insight into and methodology for advancing the well-being of humans, animals and all global health more expeditiously and efficaciously http://www.springerpub.com/global-population-health-and-well-being-in-the-21st-century-toward-new-paradigms-policy-and-practice.html.   Having the One Health approach and principles implemented worldwide is truly equivalent to saying the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.  An effort has begun to help “prepare society to create the world we need through ‘One Health education” http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/122 and http://onehealthkansas.k-state.edu/outreach/52/k-12-education-and-public-outreach-resources.   Aside from all the millions of words and esoterica published by scientific academicians and theoreticians worldwide during the past decade, there has emerged some irrefutable hardcore ‘real-world’ evidentiary proofs established for centuries and recently.

The documented tip of this One Health approach iceberg http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/ONE%20HEALTH%20a%20significant%20international%20public%20health%20comparative%20medicine%20OHI%20POSTING%20May%2013%202015.pdf:

“The One Health concept has been successfully applied to many clinical health and public health milieus during the 19^th, 20th and early 21^st centuries.  Some significant examples of clinical health advances through comparative medical/surgical endeavors occurred during the past centuries using the One Health approach, i.e. these include public health and comparative medicine issues such as Heart Disease, Cancer, Orthopedic Disease, Anesthesiology, Obesity, Parasitic Diseases, Tuberculosis, Global Infectious Disease, Influenza,  Human Hepatitis C virus, Tickborne Diseases, Food Safety, Hendra virus vaccine, Aspergillus felis, Immunizations (vaccinations), Lou Gehrig’s Disease,  Ebola, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Staphylococcus resistant infections, Environmental health Policymaking, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses, Renderpest, Emergency/Disaster preparedness and many others.”

Vaccines against diseases transmitted from animals to humans: A one health paradigm

“This review focuses on the immunization of animals as a means of preventing human diseases (zoonoses). …”In simple terms, the idea is to develop vaccines that protect domestic animals and wildlife thereby establishing effective barriers against human infections.  Developing animal vaccines are less expensive and are less strictly regulated than are those for humans.  Hopefully a common sense One Health approach can go forward.
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Thomas%20P.%20Monath,%20MD%20Sept%202013%20One%20Health%20Vaccine%20Article.pdf

Several available One Health textbooks in print http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/news.php?query=Four+Landmark+One+Health+Textbooks+of+the+early+21st+Century+ and http://www.springerpub.com/global-population-health-and-well-being-in-the-21st-century-toward-new-paradigms-policy-and-practice.html

Four current outstanding open-access One Health Journal options for publications http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/journals.php

MORE:

World Medical Journal – UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and One Health

 http://lab.arstubiedriba.lv/WMJ/vol62/december-2016/#page=44

SEE “One Health Umbrella” graphic http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/OneHealth2