Are you Planning Your Event for the 8th Annual Global ONE HEALTH DAY?
Officially celebrated globally on November 3, 2022, One Health Day gives advocates and practitioners around the world a powerful voice for moving beyond provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative medicine, translational research and many other problems, to a holistic, One Health, way of thinking, acting and living for the benefit of all living creatures.
Anyone, from academia, government, corporate industry to private individuals, can plan and implement one or more One Health Day events each year. These events do not have to fall right on 3 November but can occur any time of the year. More information about One Health Day is available at www.onehealthday.org
News Brief on MIEH 407/607 –
One Health: Food Safety and Security
UMD and Cairo University collaboration under the Global Classroom Initiative
Global Classrooms are an innovative way for students to gain international experience virtually while engaging and collaborating across diverse, multi-cultural environments.
Six years ago, a global class was launched between Cairo University in Egypt and UMD to study Risk Based Food Safety and Security, including the role of the One-Health platform in food safety and security. Over 150 Egyptian graduate students and 60 UMD graduate students participated in this training course, collaborating on six scientific projects. Several students were US Public Health Service Officers, contributing this unique perspective to the groupwork. As a result of the program's enormous success, an undergraduate course was formed two years ago.
Student Participation and discussion by students on One Health challenge in capacity building
On this year’s (Summer 2023) project, students collaborated to examine the application of One Health principles to food safety and security in Egypt. They gathered and analyzed food safety data and discussed how One Health can help with capacity building and address the following challenges:
- The global food production system's complexity and interconnectedness
- Food Production, Processing, Distribution, and Purchasing Practices Changes
- Food Spillage
- Extensive Use of Antimicrobials and Drugs in Food Animal
- Intensive Agricultural Farming is a type of farming that is very intensive.
- Mass Livestock Production
- Widespread Pesticide Use
- Water Purification Technologies
- Bacterial, viral, and parasitic Food Safety Issues
- Food tampering (bio/chemical terrorism) ten.
By the end of the project, students had experience investigation how to create a sustainable food system that prioritizes food safety as an integral component and recommending steps to reduce excess food waste, redistributing excess food to those in need, improving food storage and distribution processes, and dehydrating appropriate food waste that can be used as water treatment due to its cellular content.
Students co-developed a report of recommendations as a result of their analysis.
Speakers from a variety of academic institutions, international organizations, and the private sector
This class was taught by twelve international experts in one-health, epidemiology, toxicology, microbiology, and global health from the federal, state, private sector, and academia. The speakers came from the United States, Egypt, Taiwan, and Bangladesh.
Project Leadership Teams and the roles of group leaders in project report delivery
Project participation was carried out through the nomination of Project Leaders from both UMD and Cairo University. Five teams were created based on food security and safety challenges and given the task to create individual group reports. The project leads collected these reports and finalized a summary report as the final product of this student effort.
Significance of project-based learning and its impact on policy and programs
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that focuses on involving students in real-world projects and activities to help them develop their knowledge, skills, and competencies. Students work on complex, real-world problems or challenges that necessitate critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. PBL helped both groups of students to collaborate, use critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and analyze assessments performed.
Future events under US-Middle East One Health Network
Because of the significance of this collaborative project's findings. Students made the decision to prepare a manuscript and submit it to a peer-reviewed scientific journal to share their findings with the scientific community.
One Health Day
November 3, 2022
One Health Day answers the urgent need for a One Health approach towards solving today’s critical global health challenges. It is a timely initiative that occurs annually on November 3rd.
It gives scientists and advocates a powerful voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, and many other problems, to a holistic default way of doing business.
Memorandum of Understanding between FAO, WOAH, WHO, and UNEP
March 17, 2022
Four international agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for One Health collaboration. This agreement aims to strengthen cooperation to optimize the health of humans, animals, and the environment globally.
Managing Diseases in Animals to Prevent Health Crisis in Humans
February 15, 2022
FAO Egypt office, through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), has been active in preventing and combating diseases that emerge from animals and spillover to humans through fostering multisectoral collaboration. Watch this short documentary on ECTAD’s role in improving animal health and summarizing its main achievements in Egypt.
Past Events
NOAA One Health Summit
On August 15-16, 2023, The NOAA One Health Team hosted the first NOAA One Health Summit. The NOAA One Health Summit brought together scientists, practitioners, and leadership across the agency to connect and highlight NOAA’s work on health and related issues, and with the health sector, that support the One Health approach.
RTI/EMPHNET Hosts its 32nd Webinar in the EMPHNET WEBi Series
Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and Eastern Mediterreanean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) held a webinar titled “Sustaining Meaningful Multisectoral Collaboration for One Health: Conditions for Success” as part of its WEBi series on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The 90-minute session featured three subject matter experts namely: Deputy Program Manager of Antimicrobial Resistance, Viral hepatitis, Diarrheal Diseases Control for the Government of Bangladesh, Dr. Aninda Rahman, Head of Communicable Diseases Control Programs, Health Protection & Communicable Diseases Division, Ministry of Public Health, Qatar, Dr. Elmoubasher Farag, and One Health Steering committee Chairperson, Director of Veterinary Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia, Dr. Sisay Getachew. The session was moderated by Senior Epidemiologist for Global Health Security, RTI International, Dr. Donal Bisanzio. View the recording here.