One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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In recent years One Health has gathered momentum. The One Health Initiative ( 4), founded in 2006, is doing an outstanding job of promoting One Health through education and advocacy in the United States and internationally. The organization was co-founded by a physician and a veterinarian and its Board has approximately equal numbers of physicians and veterinarians. It is supported by prominent veterinary and medical organizations and by hundreds of individuals worldwide. The goal of this initiative is to promote application of a cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary approach to mitigate existing or potential risks to health that arise from the interactions of humans, animals and the environment. They are achieving their purpose through “education of international multidisciplinary scientific communities, political and governmental leaders, the general public, and news media about the One Health concept and helping to promote the One Health concept’s expeditious implementation worldwide.” This initiative promotes many activities including the One Health Newsletter published by the University of Florida, which seeks to encourage communication and collaboration among veterinarians, physicians, public health professionals and environmental scientists and to find multi-disciplinary solutions to these shared challenges. Veterinarians continue to play a leading role in support of One Health and a veterinarian was recently appointed as Head of the CDC One Health Office. Star Susan Leigh, Griesemer James. Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–39. Social Studies of Science. 1989; 19(3):387–420. Are you a bibliophile? Or you are the person who collects PDFs only to never open them again in their entire life? Well, I’m the latter.

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So what happened to initiate this change and the more widespread uptake of OH? Adopting OH as a single term had advantages for both OM and OWOH advocates: it was less cumbersome, significantly broadened the scope of their shared agenda, and decentered disciplines. The idea of “health” reaches far beyond infectious disease or clinical research and encompasses a much broader range of issues, practices, and policies than “medicine” can. Many advocates have embraced the flexibility of this expanded version of OH, adopting the “umbrella” metaphor as a way of articulating the inclusive nature of the agenda ( One Health Sweden 2014). This shift was also driven by more pragmatic concerns: in 2008 the Wildlife Conservation Society registered the OWOH slogan as a trademark with the U.S. Patent Office, preventing its usage by other organizations. Since 2010, a biennial international conference series and journal have been founded and activities have been sponsored by research funding bodies, philanthropic foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Moving out from its origins in the United States and Switzerland, OH meetings and associations have become increasingly international, appearing across Europe (e.g., Netherlands, Sweden), Southeast Asia (e.g., South Korea, Malaysia), Australia, and Africa (e.g., Ethiopia, Uganda). The ideas and terminology of OH have increasingly been used to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation in policy making and government ( CDC 2013; Department of Health 2013; Leung et al. 2012). In the United Kingdom at least, several universities have merged their veterinary, medical, and biological sciences schools, referencing OH as part of the reason for these moves and launching new training programs ( Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [RCVS] 2014; University of Surrey 2012). Dasgupta R, Tomley F, Alders R, Barbuddhe SB, Kotwani A. Dasgupta R, et al. Indian J Med Res. 2021 Mar;153(3):281-286. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_537_21. Indian J Med Res. 2021. PMID: 33906990 Free PMC article. Review.

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As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, Funny, fascinating and beautifully written. More than that it is moving and awe inspiring… I can’t think of a more important topic for everyone on the planet to engage with right now' World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization (WHO and FAO). Geneva: World Health Organization; 1951. Joint “WHO/FAO Expert Committee on Zoonoses” WHO Technical Report Series No. 40.Figure 1.. Schematic outline diagram indicating the relationship and differences between the concepts of One… Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One Health. 2013. Last modified October 18, 2013. http://www ​.cdc.gov/ONEHEALTH/. Find out how you can get involved, see how you can support us in a professional capacity or join the Humanimal Hub, our online forum providing a platform for collaboration amongst human and veterinary medical professionals.