FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                           

February 1, 2010                                                                     

   847-838-2966   

Contact: Teres Lambert

tlambert@animalagriculture.org

One Health’s ‘What,’ ‘So What’ to Animal Agriculture
Focus of NIAA’s 2010 Annual Meeting

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—“One Health” is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans and animals. Opening General Session speakers at the 2010 annual meeting of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, March 15-17, in Kansas City, Mo., will zero in on the “What?” and “So What?” of the One Health concept as these two questions relate to animal agriculture.

“NIAA’s Opening General Session speakers will look at how the One Health initiative and strategies shift the focus from surveillance to intervention and prevention and how challenges need to be faced collectively rather than in individual silos and disciplines,” states Dr. Tony Forshey, co-chair of NIAA’s Annual Meeting Planning Committee. “When individuals leave the Tuesday morning Opening General Session, they will be up to speed about One Health and its implications for animal agriculture.”

NIAA’s lineup of Opening General Session topics and speakers include:

·       “One World, One Health: The Global Food Basket,” Dr. Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

·       “The Genesis of One Health: What It’s All About,” Dr. Roger Mahr, DVM, CEO, One Health Commission

·       "Past, Present and Future Veterinary Service's Roles in One Health," Dr. Joseph Annelli, One Health Coordinator, USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services

·       “Environmental Health: How Does One Health Fit In?”, Jay Ellenberger, Deputy  Director, Environmental Protection Agency

·       “How Will One Health Impact Livestock Producers?”, Dr. Harry Snelson, DVM, American Association of Swine Veterinarians

·       “One Health in the Real World,” Dr. Billy Clay, DVM, MS, DABVT, AVMA Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine, Vetta Consulting LLC

At the conclusion of the six Opening General Session presentations, the speakers will partake in a panel discussion and address questions from annual meeting attendees.

“We’re excited to have these highly qualified individuals talk about One Health so those of us involved in animal agriculture know as much as possible about this concept that has the attention of major medical organizations and health agencies and the endorsement of more than 400 prominent scientists, physicians and veterinarians worldwide,” Dr. Forshey states. “One Health is underway and gaining momentum. As such, we can either become knowledgeable and involved now or we can react to its impact on animal agriculture.”

Dr. Forshey adds that species-specific discussions surrounding One Health will take place during NIAA’s species-based committee meetings on Tuesday afternoon, March 16, and Wednesday, March 17. Species-based committees include Cattle, Swine, Poultry, Equine, and Sheep & Goat. Each committee meeting will have its own line-up of nationally recognized speakers and species-specific topics.

NIAA’s issue-based committee meetings on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday will address Animal Care, Animal Health Emergency Management, Animal Health and International Trade, Animal Production Food Safety and Security, Emerging Diseases, and Animal Identification and Information Systems.  

NIAA’s species committee meetings and issue-based committee meetings are open to NIAA members and non-members.

NIAA’s annual meeting will take place at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., with a block of rooms reserved at a special nightly rate of $130/room, single or double occupancy. To receive this special rate, rooms must be reserved by Friday, Feb. 12, by calling 816-474-4400 and specifying that you are with the National Institute for Animal Agriculture.

A schedule of events for NIAA’s 2010 annual meeting, meeting registration, list of NIAA committees and hotel information are available at the NIAA website: www.animalagriculture.org.   Individuals are also welcome to call NIAA at (719) 538-8843.

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) is a non-profit, membership-driven organization that unites and advances animal agriculture—the beef, dairy, equine, goat, poultry, sheep and swine industries. NIAA is dedicated to programs that work towards the eradication of diseases that pose risk to the health of animals, wildlife and humans; promote a safe and wholesome food supply for our national and abroad; and promote best practices in environmental stewardship, animal health and well-being.  NIAA members represent producers, veterinarians, scientists, state and federal officials, and business executives.

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8^th Annual Scientific Conference of Chittagong Veterinary

 and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)

Date of Conference: 16-18 March, 2010

“Networking for promoting change towards One World One Health”

It is a New Year and change is on the way. After an enormously successful 2009 conference, the Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is pleased to announce that the 2010 Annual Scientific Conference of CVASU will take place at Hotel Agrabad in Chittagong again. As in the past the CVASU is also excited to partner with the National Coordination Committee of 'One World, One Health: Bangladesh Initiative' (One Health Bangladesh). With our exciting 2010 conference theme "Networking for promoting change towards One World One Health", we encourage all professionals and scholars to submit their articles according to a specified timeline. This year the conference will highlight the practical importance of cross-professional communication in relation to the concept of ‘one health’, which many prominent veterinary, human and ecosystem health scientists have recently endorsed as a sound basis for addressing human diseases, animal diseases, and environmental degradation worldwide.

The two day long program will include invited presentations from scholars, researchers, development practitioners and policy makers from home and abroad. In addition research results of academicians, researchers and development practitioners will be presented. The meeting is expected to be a stimulating and lively event bringing together a congregation of professionals from multiple disciplines and backgrounds, thereby offering ample networking opportunities.

Stay tuned for more information on the conference at the website www.cvasu.ac.bd/ASC8. The conference organizing committee and CVASU very much look forward to welcoming you. Wishing you all a successful New Year.

Nitish C. Debnath, DVM, PhD, Vice Chancellor

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

& Chairman, Conference Organizing Committee

Introduction to the Theme

Networking for promoting change towards One World One Health

With the close interrelationship between humans and animals, many health concerns are becoming increasingly similar. Several important harmonization and globalization efforts are currently underway within modern day research on health sciences. These are intended to facilitate interactions not only between human and veterinary medicine but also among the diverse areas of specialization including the field of environmental science and ecology. Today's rapidly changing world necessitates the integration of the multifaceted activities associated with human, animal and ecological health. The complexity of issues arising in human and veterinary medicine and ecological imbalance necessitate improved communication between disciplines. The 'One Health' initiative is intended to help overcome many of the obstacles impeding effective inter-disciplinary communication. The mission of the 'One Health' is to provide a forum for communication between member organizations via different means of interactions. This innovative effort is the first international multidisciplinary initiative to unite human and animal health scientists as well as individuals from all areas of expertise, thereby fostering a better understanding of the challenges encountered within each specialty and providing unique perspectives on issues to assist in creative problem solving.

Knowledge and communication are two of the keys to successful research and development of the 'One Health' approach towards a safe planet for all its present and future inhabitants. In the past, we have witnessed the lack of accessible communication networks, failure to share information perceived as being proprietary, and a lack of outlets for the dissemination of knowledge. In this year’s  conference we shall be discussing how  networking, with the purpose to facilitate communications and interactions, exchange of information, ideas and pedagogical resources could be established; how  cooperation and collaboration between national, regional and international partners/scientific community in the animal-human-ecosystem interface could be promoted in order to prevent, control and mitigate the emerging, re-emerging and zoonotic diseases, along with  issues like climate changes. It also will review current efforts in each of these areas, highlighting the advantages of such activities, the depth and breadth of similar opportunities and formulate recommendations for future directions toward a common goal. We hope to help create a space in which human health, veterinary, environmental and social scientists and all participants may learn from one another, collaborate in research, and cooperate towards effective implementation of One Health agenda for a safer and better planet.

Objective of the Conference

1. Highlight the “Global One Health Network” approach for effective response to human, animal and ecosystem health

2. Address the networking gaps at local, national, regional and international levels of technical expertise with a view to establish collaborative relationships that improve the national and international capacity building

3. Discuss the significance of cross-professional collaboration/networking in Bangladesh and its implementation for strategies in research, education and development as a concerted effort

4. Identify the avenues to share useful information/resources among professionals of animal, human health and other related organizations towards a safer and healthier planet

5. Discuss the strategies to overcome barriers of successful communication between animal, human and environmental health

6. Sharing national and international experience and expertise on wildlife and marine life health and their relationship with climate change and environmental degradation.

Who should attend?

Physicians, veterinarians, animal scientists, agriculturists, environmentalists, marine and fisheries scientists, wildlife specialists, zoologists, biologists, social scientists, policy makers, development partners, development practitioners, and public health experts.

Important Dates

Deadline for Registration: 28 February, 2010

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 28 February, 2010

Date of Conference: 16-18 March, 2010

Conference Secretariat

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)

Khulsi, Chittagong- 4202, Bangladesh

Tel: 0088-031-659093, 659294, Fax: 0088-031 659620

Email: cvasusec@gmail.com  

Expecting international participants

Wildlife Trust, USA

Royal Veterinary College (RVC), UK

University of Copenhagen through DANIDA (Denmark)

Indian Institute of Science, Ecological Centre

Madras Veterinary College (MVC), India

Conference sponsors

CVASU

RFLDC (PRTC) / DANIDA

British Council/DFID through DelPHE

NOTICE (February 5, 2010):

 The One Health Initiative Website Welcomes …

 Worldwide One Health Submissions for Posting on:

·                         One Health News page

·                         Publications page

·                         Upcoming Events page

Comments and suggestions also appreciated...

 Please send to kkm@onehealthinitiative.com

 Symposium to examine emerging MRSA threat - Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine - March 20, 2010

Columbus, OH - On Saturday, March 20, 2010 experts in infectious diseases and on MRSA in animals will convene a day-long symposium to explore the human and animal health threats posed by this emerging health problem. Health workers are aware that Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be transferred from person to person; they may be less aware of the risks posed to animals by human transmission, and may not know that animals can transfer the pathogen to humans.

Experts at the symposium will present a description of this pathogen and of other Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci, as well as offer a summary of their epidemiology and their impact on humans and animals. The symposium is targeted to both human health professionals and animal health professionals. This "One Health, One Medicine" approach to studying this pathogens offers a broader understanding of the impact of the diseases in the human health setting as well as veterinary setting.

The two featured keynote speakers are Dr. Scott Weese, recognized internationally for his work on MRSA in animals, and Dr. Paul Morley, an infectious diseases control expert. Dr. Weese will provide a worldwide MRSA update; Dr. Morley will describe handling MRSA cases to decrease the risk of diseases transmission in veterinary settings.

Registration for the symposium is available at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine Office of Veterinary Continuing Education. On-line registration requires establishing a log-in name and password. Cost for the full day meeting is $60 ($35 for students). Registration can also be mailed or faxed. A downloadable PDF of a brochure is also available. For more information and links to both methods of registration, please visit the Office of Veterinary Continuing Education web site.

About the College of Veterinary Medicine

The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked fifth in the nation among veterinary schools according to the 2008 U.S. News and World Report's "Best Graduate Schools." The college includes more than 1,000 faculty, staff and students in the Departments of Veterinary Biosciences, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, and Veterinary Preventive Medicine. The Veterinary Hospital is a comprehensive specialty referral center for veterinary practitioners and is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world, with more than 30,000 large and small animal patients each year. In addition, the college operates a nationally-recognized large animal ambulatory practice and teaching unit in Marysville, OH and a Food Animal Health Research Program in Wooster at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. More information about the College of Veterinary Medicine.

EnviroVet –Summer Institute 2010

Terrestrial & Aquatic Wildife & Ecosystem Health

An intensive Course providing Knowledge, Skills, Mentors & Opportunities for Veterinary Careers that enable recovery of Free-Ranging Wildlife Populations and Protection of Public Health

Sessions One & Two: June 16 to July 19, 2010:  Issues & Techniques for the Developed World with Outreach to Developing Countries at White Oak Conservation Center, St. Catherines Island, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.

Session Three: July 20 to August 10, 2010:   Issues & Techniques for the Developing World at Tanzania National Parks, Sokoine University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zanzibar.

Application Deadline is March 1, 2010  See http://vetmed.illinois.edu/envirovet/

Course Fee for 2010 is $7,500.  Includes food, lodging and ground transport at all study sites, plus airfare to the developing country location.   Students are responsible for transportation to and from Florida.

Executive Director: Dr. Val Beasley, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, E-mail val@illinois.edu, phone: 217-333-9360.

Director Envirovet Terrestrial: Dr. Kirsten Gilardi, Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, E-mail kvgilardi@ucdavis.edu, phone: 520-752-4896.

Information provided by:

Robin Royer

Program Associate

Program in Wildlife and Ecosystem Health

Department of Veterinary Biosciences

College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2001 S. Lincoln Ave.

Urbana, IL 61802

217.333.2672

FAX:  217.244.1652

rroyer@illinois.edu  

http://vetmed.illinois.edu/envirovet/

New Year's Resolution: "One Health" Recognition and Implementation without delay. Protect and save human and animal life today and tomorrow!

UC DAVIS – School of Veterinary Medicine

One Health Project

'Frontiers in One Health Series'

MARCH 2010
Alonso Aguirre DVM MS PhD
Vice President Conservation Medicine Program Wildlife Trust
Wrote the book: Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
The role epidemiology and the MPVM play in One Health

The American Physiological Society Announces:

2010 APS Intersociety Meeting: Global Change and Global Science:
Comparative Physiology in a Changing World
August 4-7, 2010  -   Westin Westminster Hotel
Westminster, Colorado 

More Conference Information Coming Soon…

To be posted at http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/comparative/index.htm.

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

http://www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine10/

Bethesda North Marriott & Conference Center
Bethesda, Maryland
April 26 - 28, 2010

The International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses

3-5 February 2010
Amelia Island, Florida, USA

With the 2009 emergence of the novel H1N1 virus, we are acutely aware that pigs and man can exchange influenza viruses and that the effects in both species can be extensive. Perhaps not as well recognized are the historical, observational, and experimental data suggesting that equine influenza viruses may also infect man and thus have the potential for generation of pandemic viruses. The International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses will examine a considerable body of swine and equine influenza data, and also consider what riles, if any, canine influenza and marine mammal influenza might play in new epidemics and epizootics.

Registration is not open yet. Please check back to register.

 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

• To bring together international scientists whose work focuses on swine, equine, canine, and other nonhuman mammalian influenza viruses

• To explore what is known about these viruses through virologic studies, surveillance, epidemiology, prevention, and control, and their implications for policy

• To promote interaction among scientists interested in nonhuman/nonavian influenza viruses whose work may not regularly receive international attention

 TARGET AUDIENCES

• Veterinarians
• Public health professionals
• Virologists
• Epidemiologists
• Historians
• Agriculture experts
• Animal disease control professionals
• Marine biologists
• Economists
• Physicians 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA
Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Professor of Epidemiology and International Programs
University of Iowa College of Public Health
Iowa City, Iowa, USA

John Wood, PhD
Principal Scientist, Division of Virology
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, UK

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Thomas M. Chambers, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Science
Gluck Equine Research Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Cynda Crawford, DVM, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Shelter Medicine
Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Ann A. Cullinane, MVB, PhD, MRCVS
Head of Virology
Irish Equine Centre
University of Limerick
Johnstown, Ireland

Debra Elton, PhD
Head of Virology
Animal Health Trust
Lanwades Park
Kentford, UK

Paul Gibbs, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS
Professor of Virology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Marie Gramer, DVM, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Peter D. Kirkland, BVSc, PhD
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
Officer in Charge, Virology Laboratory
Elizabeth Macarthur Agriculture Institute
Menangle NSW, Australia

Juergen A. Richt, DVM, PhD
Regents Distinguished Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Teri Rowles, DVM, PhD
Head of Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Program
National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Protected Resources
Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division,
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Kristien Van Reeth DVM, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Laboratory of Virology
Ghent University
Merelbeke Belgium

Richard J. Webby, PhD
Department of Infectious Diseases
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

59^th Wildlife Disease Association Annual Meeting

May 30 – June 4, 2010

Iquazu, Argentina

http://sites.google.com/site/wda2010argentina/

The 60^{th Annual James H. Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man}

^{To All Interested Parties: A Call For PapersThe James H. Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man (DIN) is convening its annual conference in Austin, Texas June 9-11, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Austin Hotel on Town Lake.}

^{The annual conference focuses on zoonotic disease topics of interest to health professionals. On behalf of the planning committee, we invite you to submit an abstract for either an oral or poster presentation at the conference. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31, 2010. Session topics this year include Bacterial Zoonoses, Parasitic Zoonoses, Arboviral Diseases, Rabies, Other Viral Zoonoses, Zoonoses of Captive Animals and Wildlife, Food and Waterborne Diseases, and Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness. Presentations on other zoonotic disease topics will also be considered.}

^{Attendees include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, veterinarians, veterinary technicians, epidemiologists, microbiologists, virologists, parasitologists, entomologists, academic researchers, sanitarians, public health professionals, wildlife biologists, animal control officers, and other professionals involved in the diagnosis, investigation, control, and prevention of infectious zoonotic diseases.}

^{This conference serves as a forum for presentations of research, epidemiological data, and other aspects of emerging and current zoonoses, with the goal of increasing knowledge and awareness of zoonoses within the medical and public health communities. Papers may include reviews of selected zoonotic diseases, individual case studies, outbreak investigations, basic and applied research projects, and surveillance program reports. There will be opportunity for discussion of the various topics that are presented.}

^{If you wish to submit an abstract, you will find instructions and a sample submission form on the DIN Conference website. Please complete and email the abstract to Jim.Schuermann@dshs.state.tx.us.}

^Sincerely,

^{Eric Fonken, State Conference Co-Coordinator}

^{Jim Schuermann, State Conference Co-Coordinator}

^{Jim Schuermann, Staff Epidemiologist for Vectorborne and Zoonotic Diseases
Zoonosis Control Branch
Texas Department of State Health Services}

^{512-458-7111 ext. 2890
512-458-7454 Fax}

^{PO Box 149347}

^{Austin, TX 78714-9347}

^{Visit the Zoonosis Branch website at: http://www.texaszoonosis.org}

Information Provided by:

 Merel Langelaar, DVM, PhD 

  Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology (LZO) 

  National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

  Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands

  P.O. Box 1 (postbak 63)

  3720 BA Bilthoven

  The Netherlands

1st International One Health Congress

 Human Health, Animal Health, the Environment and Global Survival

Melbourne Convention Centre

Victoria, Australia

February 14 -16, 2011

 See Website for More information

http://www.onehealth2011.com/

For the last few years, the One Health concept has brought together experts working in the areas of animal and human disease. One Health has provided a new synthesis for veterinary and public health communities, particularly in the United States of America, Europe and Australia.

However, there is an urgent need and a growing interest to broaden the agenda to incorporate a truly global perspective and to consider environmental issues.

This 1st International One Health Congress will achieve these goals by focusing clearly on the risks and challenges brought about by the interactions between animal and human health and the environment.  It will consider these in the general context of the science and research being undertaken, but critically it will focus on the outcomes that need to be achieved to effectively manage the growing risks to global health.

The Congress aims to make recommendations on policy and organisational changes using the underlying science to inform and drive the process.  For the first time, it is envisaged that a global consideration of interrelated issues of animal and human health and the relationship with the environment can take the science to the policy maker and thus drive real and profound change. We see this as setting a pathway that in 10 -15 years will result in a seamless approach to infectious disease management  with both the  resources and those with the skills and knowledge intimately linked with the focus clearly on delivering outcomes in a fully united way.