One Health Global Network

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  • PREDICT

    PREDICT, a project of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats Program, is building a global early warning system to detect and reduce the impacts of emerging diseases that move between wildlife and people (zoonotic diseases). PREDICT has developed a SMART surveillance method (Strategic, Measurable, Adaptive, Responsive, and Targeted) that accounts for the fact that zoonotic pathogens, such as influenza and SARS, are responsible for the majority of emerging infectious diseases in people, and that more than three quarters of these emerging zoonoses are of wildlife origin.
    Find out more on the PREDICT website: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ohi/predict/index.cfm

  • SACIDS

    SACIDS is a ONE HEALTH consortium of southern African medical and veterinary, academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals in the DRC , Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania (progressively also plant health),In an innovative partnership with world-renowed centres of research in industrialised countries.

    Our mission is to harness innovation in science and technology in order to improve southern Africas capacity (including human, financial and physical) to detect, identify and monitor infectious diseases of humans, animals, plants and their interactions in order to better manage the risk posed by them.

    To find out more see the SACIDS website: http://www.sacids.org

  • Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness (SOS)

    The Stamp Out Sleeping sickness (SOS) campaign is a public private partnership launched in Kampala, Uganda in October 2006. This partnership was formed in response to an emergency situation arising in a number of districts in Northern Uganda where the two strains of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) – also known as “sleeping sickness”- threaten to converge.

    SOS partners have engaged in building a platform for sustainability through educating and teaching farmers and key stakeholders on sleeping sickness and the close links between animal health and human health and economic development. To further empower farmers and communities to “do it for themselves” additional initiatives have been put in place by the private sector partners, like mobile spray teams and the start-up of private veterinary practices and drug shops in previously unserved areas of the SOS districts, the so called “3 V Vet Initiative”.

    Find out more on the SOS website: http://www.stampoutsleepingsickness.com/

  • University of Edinburgh

    MSc/Dip/Cert by online distance learning

    One Health is an emerging approach that studies the complex relationships and
    interactions between animal health, human health and ecosystem health.

    The University of Edinburgh was the first UK University to address the need for
    One Health professional training. This MSc draws together Edinburgh’s multidisciplinary
    expertise with a proven track record to deliver first-class teaching in One Health.

    Targeted at students with a degree in veterinary and human medicine, agricultural
    science, biology, health, eco-health or related science or social science subjects
    and building on a solid foundation of biological, veterinary, medical, pathological
    and epidemiological principles, this programme will equip students with the skills
    needed to identify, control and manage human and animal diseases in complex
    ecosystems and to mitigate risk. The programme will enable students to advance
    “One Health” beyond the theoretical to the practical, and bring much-needed
    attention to the policy and operational issues that ultimately will be key
    determinants for success. Due to the online delivery method, courses can be
    studied over 1, 2 or 3 years to Certificate, Diploma or Masters level.

    For more details download the flyer or see www.ed.ac.uk/vet/one-health