G20 Summit: Make One Health a Reality
This is the summer of Italy on the World Stage--And recognition of One Health as a global concern: What happens in the Fall when the G20 meets? Will the G20 follow up on the recognition given to One Health by
One Health Needs Global Recognition: A Call for Superstars to Come Forward
We live in times of near-universal connectivity. As a result, almost every major public health issue of global concern has followed the well-worn path of widespread expert endorsement based on the best available evidence + a high-powered advocacy spokesperson, all
G7 Summit Results Disappointing: More about China than COVID or Climate Change
Update 14 June, 8:30 pm: Just out, the communiqué from the NATO meeting in Brussels attended by President Biden. At the urging of the American President, the language is stronger than the one used by the G7 leaders that had
Seismic Shift by G7 in Recognizing One Health as Critical to Everyone’s Health
Momentous events are occurring in global health, with perhaps the most significant, at least the rhetorical recognition that the interface between animal-human-environmental health is at the crux of our future health. In short, One Health is now recognized by the
Behavioral Change – At The Bottom and The Top
We are only beginning to take the full measure of the impact of human-animal-environmental relationships and what it means for our behavior and our future. The current pandemic, given the likelihood that the virus has an animal origin although a
How Anti-science and Anti-vaxxers Cause Avoidable COVID Deaths
If we do not learn from the past and seize new opportunities and scientific breakthroughs, we are doomed to incur far worse disasters than might have been. Adopting an anti-science position and following the anti-vaxxer movement leads to many COVID
One Health for One Planet: How to Address 21st Century Education Challenges
We have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in over a century and it has brought the world economy to its knees. Now we need to map out the path to recovery, and in doing so, we have become aware
Post-COVID: Let’s Prevent the Nipah Virus Becoming Another Infectious Disease Nightmare
Our attention has been fixed on the COVID-19 pandemic as it ravishes our health and economies and destroys the fabric of societies. That our focus has been singular on COVID-19 has been right and proper, but we should not lose
Virus Mapping, Pandemics Preparedness and One Health: We Need Them All
COVID-19 is neither the first nor the last of major epidemics and pandemics. The impact of this infectious outbreak has led to huge ratcheting up of research and funding for therapeutics and vaccines to get a handle on this coronavirus.
COVID-19 Vaccines: Science and Scientists are Out to “Getcha”!
There is widespread concern about how fast the current COVID-19 vaccines were produced compared to other past conventional vaccines such as polio, measles, and other contagious diseases - and this has nothing to do with being “health illiterate”. The concern
Health Illiteracy – Why a Silent Epidemic Needs a “One Health” Approach
Health illiteracy haunts the COVID-19 response in most of the Western democracies. Health illiteracy is defined as the inability to comprehend and use medical information that can affect access to and use of the health-care system. Conversely, health literacy refers
COVID-19: Why More Than Vaccines Are Needed – One Health Approach
To control the COVID-19 pandemic, will a vaccine be enough? This article makes the case that more than a vaccine (or several vaccines) is needed and that bringing together the two major existing health systems that are now separate, one