One Health Newsletter
Micro-Editorial
One Health Day and One Health Research
Authors
Ellyn Mulcahy, Paige Adams, Helena Chapman, and J.P. Gonzalez.
One Health Day, more important now than ever? This year has seen great strides and great losses in our global public health and One Health systems. We have seen advances in research and technologies, combined with increasing COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates globally. One Health Day, an international annual event held on Nov. 3, serves to remind us that we have a lot of work remaining in One Health. One Health Day was initiated in 2016 by the One Health Commission, the One Health Platform, and the One Health Initiative Team. The goals of this event are as vital now as it was in 2016, to build awareness and engage our global community on One Health education and science.
This One Health Newsletter (OHNL) is a part in this global undertaking to enhance One Health education and provide a platform for budding and experienced One Health scholars. As its name indicates, the OHNL is at the forefront of the immense field of public health in the broadest sense. The previous edition focused on the emergence of the current pandemic with its multiple implications, whether scientific, social, economic, or political, which amply demonstrated the importance of and need for a One Health approach.
In this current edition, we learn from experts and students around the world about what One Health means. J.P. Gonzalez reviews a World Health Atlas publication, “Healthcare facing its challenges: Healthcare Access, Healthcare System Crisis, Anticipating Pandemics” where the authors, Gérard Salem and Florence Fournet present a variety of geographical representation of diseases showing how Health Geography uses transdisciplinary approaches for understanding and forecasting the risk of disease expansion. Rebecca Laes-Kushner describes the challenges of “Zoonoses in Ethiopia” including the economic impact of tuberculosis in cattle. Sejal Shah and Praveen Varanasi describe concerns of poverty, zoonotic disease, wildlife trafficking, and industrialized farm practices in their article, “A Pandemic Urges a Place for Animal Welfarism in the Public Health Sphere.” In “Sickle Cell Disease: a One Health Solution to a Neglected Genetic Disease,” Léon Tshilolo and J.P. Gonzalez explain the important links between sickle cell disease, a genetic autosomal recessive disorder, and the environment. Lastly, Del'Sha Roberts, Yu shin Wang, Sara Jessica Ochoa, and Cheyenne Brunkow, four students from Kansas State University, provide us with their perceptions of One Health with a summary of the Kansas City One Health Day Conference (https://bionexuskc.org/event/one-health-day/). This edition will conclude the strange and terrible year of the 2020 pandemic, where we, the editors, hope to see more One Health initiatives applied to public health challenges for the good of all.
One Health Newsletter
The One Health Newsletter is a collaborative effort by a diverse group of scientists and health professionals committed to promoting One Health. This newsletter was created to lend support to the One Health Initiative and is dedicated to enhancing the integration of animal, human, and environmental health for the benefit of all by demonstrating One Health in practice.
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