Transcript One Health Initiative: Global Clearinghouse for Activities

One Health Initiative
Global Clearinghouse for Action involving
Rabies and Other Zoonoses
the pro bono OHI Team
Laura Kahn MD
Bruce Kaplan DVM
Tom Monath MD
Jack Woodall PhD
Definition
“One Health is the
collaborative efforts of multiple
disciplines working locally,
nationally, and globally to attain
optimal health for
People & other animals,
plants and our environment.”
Rabies: Perfect Example
of how One Health is essential
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Physicians to vaccinate & treat victims
Veterinarians to vaccinate & sterilize dogs & cats
Wildlife experts to advise on oral vaccination
Ecologists to tell responsible authorities why
sterilization is better than culling
• Sanitarians to eliminate garbage that feeds strays
• Educators to teach people to vaccinate their pets
• Media to inform about risks & prevention, e.g. bats
Benefit - Synergism
The One Health concept is a worldwide
strategy for expanding
• interdisciplinary collaboration &
communication
• in all aspects of health care for
• humans, animals and the environment.
The synergism achieved will advance
health care for the 21st century & beyond by…
1. Accelerating biomedical
research discoveries
Multidisciplinary teams of veterinarians,
physicians, virologists & wildlife ecologists
were responsible for:
• Development of cell culture and oral-bait wildlife
rabies vaccines
• Discovery of the Lyassavirus family of rabies-related
viruses
• Developing PCR methods for detection of rabies
• Human monoclonal antibodies for post-exposure
treatment for rabies
Accelerating biomedical research
discoveries (cont.)
More examples:
• Cancer (human & animal)
– breast, ovaries, liver, skin melanoma vaccines
• Orthopedic diseases/devices (human & animal)
– treat human osteoarthritis, develop prostheses,
artificial joints
• Heart disease (human)
– treat and prevent heart attacks with intracoronary arterial “stents”, new drugs
2. Enhancing public health efficacy
Examples:
• Multidisciplinary collaborations of physicians,
veterinarians, nurses, microbiologists,
engineers, sanitarians, dentists, statisticians,
entomologists, ecologists and others
• Collaborations between local, state, and
national agencies
– (including local
local & state
state) –
to facilitate and advance disease prevention &
control
3. Expeditiously expanding the
scientific knowledge base
Historic examples:
• Discovery and naming Ebola virus
– K.M. Johnson MD, F. A. Murphy DVM
& others at CDC (USA), 1976.
• Nobel prize for physiology or medicine
– collaborative research by immunologists R. M.
Zinkernagel MD & P.C. Doherty DVM uncovers
basic science of how body distinguishes normal
from virus-infected cells, 1996.
Expeditiously expanding the
scientific knowledge base (cont.)
Current examples:
• Surveillance for bat Lyssaviruses and disease
• Quantitating rabies exposure health risks
• Defining transmission dynamics and molecular
epidemiology of rabies strains
• Improving rabies vaccination techniques,
e.g. intradermal inoculation
4. Improving medical education
and clinical care
• Significant, improved patient education
if physicians and veterinarians advise
patients/clients collaboratively about zoonotic
risks from pets and wildlife.
• Knowledge sharing (comparative medicine)
at schools of medicine and veterinary
medicine – learning how animal and human
health impact each other.
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Global Clearinghouse for One Health Action
• News items - current & upcoming events
– WORLD RABIES DAY, College One Health clubs,
national and international One Health meetings
• Publications – relevant to One Health studies
– One Health Newsletter quarterly (Florida Dept. of Health)
• ProMED-mail.org One Health outbreak reports
• Twitter – One Health items
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• 23 Endorsing Institutions, including:
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
• American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
(ASTMH)
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• U.S. National Environmental Health Association
(NEHA)
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Overseas Institutions, including:
• Colombia: Corporación Red SPVet
• Croatia: Society for Infectious Diseases
• India: Veterinary Public Health Association
• Italy: Society of Preventive Medicine
• Netherlands: Immuno Valley Consortium
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Join more than 500 prominent
scientists, physicians, veterinarians
& environmentalists
worldwide
who have endorsed
the initiative
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One Health implementation will help
protect and/or save untold millions
of lives in our generation and
for those to come
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