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One Health Initiative: Global Clearinghouse for Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses

One Health Initiative: Global Clearinghouse for Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses. Jack Woodall PhD & the OHI Team Bruce Kaplan DVM Laura Kahn MD Tom Monath MD. Rabies : Perfect Example of how One Health is needed. Physicians to vaccinate & treat victims

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One Health Initiative: Global Clearinghouse for Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses

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  1. One Health Initiative:Global Clearinghouse for Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses Jack Woodall PhD & the OHI Team Bruce Kaplan DVM Laura Kahn MD Tom Monath MD

  2. Rabies: PerfectExampleofhowOneHealthis needed • Physiciansto vaccinate & treatvictims • Veterinariansto vaccinate & sterilizedogs & cats • Wildlifeexpertsto adviseon oral vaccination • Ecologiststo tellresponsibleauthoritieswhy sterilization is betterthanculling • Sanitarians to eliminategarbagethatfeedsstrays • Educatorsto teachpeople to vaccinatetheir pets • Mediato informaboutrisks & prevention, e.g. bats

  3. A Definition “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.”

  4. Benefit - Synergism The One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment. The synergism achieved will advance health care for the 21st century and beyond by…

  5. 1. Accelerating biomedical research discoveries Examples: • Multidisciplinary teams of veterinarians, physicians, virologists, wildlife ecologists were responsible for: • Development of cell culture and oral-bait wildlife rabies vaccines • Discovery of Lyassavirus family of rabies-related viruses • Developing PCR methods for detection of rabies • Human monoclonal antibodies for postexposure treatment

  6. 2. Enhancing public health efficacy Examples: • Collaborationbetweenstate, local & city agencies, andbetween agencies atthe local level, willadvancediseaseprevention & control

  7. 3. Expeditiously expanding the scientific knowledge base 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

  8. 4. Improving medical education and clinical care

  9. OneHealth Initiative.com This website provides a Global Clearinghouse for One Health Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses e.g. announcements & news of • meetings • projects • CollegeOneHeathclubs • etcetcetc

  10. OneHealth Initiative.com Joinmore than 500 prominent scientists, physicians, veterinarians & environmentalists worldwide who have endorsed the initiative.

  11. OneHealth Initiative.com Endorsing Institutions • AMA • AMVMA • ASTMH • CDC • USDA • NEHA

  12. www.onehealthinitiative.com 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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