Transcript One Health Initiative: Global Clearinghouse for Activities

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
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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
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.”
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…
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
2. Enhancing public health efficacy
Examples:
• Collaboration between state, local & city
agencies, and between agencies at the local
level, will advance disease prevention &
control
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
4. Improving medical education
and clinical care
One Health Initiative.com
This website provides a
Global Clearinghouse for One Health Activities
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Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses
e.g. announcements & news of
meetings
projects
College One Heath clubs
etcetcetc
One Health Initiative.com
Join more than 500 prominent
scientists, physicians, veterinarians
& environmentalists
worldwide
who have endorsed
the initiative.
One Health Initiative.com
Endorsing Institutions
• AMA
• AMVMA
• ASTMH
• CDC
• USDA
• NEHA
www.onehealthinitiative.com
One Health implementation will help
protect and/or save untold millions
of lives in our generation and
for those to come