Author: ibeange

  • OHCEA’s 1st One Health Conference

    Date: 22nd-25th September, 2013
    Location: Addis Ababa Ethiopia
    Organizer: OHCEA

    Summary: The conference will bring together re-known scholars, One Health practitioners and policy makers (national, regional and continental), development partners, students from faculties of different disciplines in institutions of higher learning such as public health, veterinary medicine, and environmental health, social anthropologists, economists to share knowledge and practical experiences.

    Disease surveillance, control and prevention, Building Health systems,Capacity Building in Developing nations, One Health policy, communication and advocacy, Women’s role in One Health initiatives, Engaging communities in One Health Initiatives

     

    More information is available from:  http://ohconference.ohcea.org/

  • Second International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface (ICOPHAI)

    One Health for Sustainable Development

     

     

     

    Date: 14th-17th Aug 2013
    Location: Summerville Resort Hotel, Porto De Galinhas, Brazil
    Organizer:

    Summary: 

    Congress Thematic Areas:

    1. One Health Meta-Leadership in Action
    2. Vector-borne Zoonoses and Impact on Public Health
    3. Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Role of Wildlife
    4. Drug Development and Antimicrobial Resistance
    5. Food-borne and Water-borne Diseases
    6. Genomics and Rapid Pathogen Detection Systems
    7. Parasitic Zoonoses and Environment
    8. Immunology and Vaccine Development

    Important Dates
    User registration and on-line abstract submission open on December 1, 2012.
    More information will  be available from:  http://icophai2013.org/

    In the meantime please see the 2011 conference page:  http://icophai2011.org/

  • 2nd GRF One Health Summit 2013

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    One Health – One Planet – One Future
    Risks and Opportunities

     

    Date: 17-20 Nov 2013
    Location: Davos, Switzerland

     

    Summary: 

    The 2nd GRF One Health Summit will further explore, advance and agree on the need for a global integrative risk management approach for One Health. Furthermore, the conference will identify ways to achieve added value by multi-sectorial and multi-stakeholder cooperation and promote enhanced public-private partnership models for risk-based financing tools. The findings of the conference shall be used to make recommendations on policy and organisational changes and stimulate a more efficient collaboration between stakeholders.

    Further details can be found on the meeting website:
    http://onehealth.grforum.org/pages_new.php/2nd-One-Health-Summit-2013/243/1/

  • Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

    The Department of Veterinary Public Health at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India (kvasu.ac.in)
    is soon to launch a Masters program in Public Health with a One Health focus.

    More details to follow soon.