The University of Minnesota and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention present
Global "One Health" Leadership: Embracing the interdependence of animals, humans and the environment
May 13 – 14, 2008 – Minneapolis, Minnesota
RFP Funding Recipients:
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1. Swine Health Rapid Response Partnership
- David H. Baum (Newsham Choice Genetics)
- Matt Ackerman (Private swine practitioner)
- Scott Dee (University of Minnesota)
- Lisa Becton (Director of Swine Health Information and Research, National Pork Board)
- Robert Glock (University of Arizona)
- Tom Burkgren (American Association of Swine Veterinarians)
- Bill Brown (Newsham Choice Genetics)
- Paul Ruen (private DVM)
Description:
"Downtime," a term familiar to those within swine production, is the period of time before a human can enter a swine-producing environment and can refer to the time needed between the cleaning of a barn or other facility and placement of new animals in that facility. With regard to humans, a farm's requirement can be 48-96 hours of 'pig-free downtime' prior to entry into its facilities.
Downtime is an essential disease control measure for both swine and humans. The process, however, can actually limit rapid response to disease outbreaks as swine influenza because the farm's attending veterinarian may not have had sufficient pig-free downtime prior to the need for his visit.
This proposal seeks to investigate downtime recommendations with the goal of establishing objective criteria for new recommendations that result in higher productivity and better disease prevention and response.
2. Long-term Ecological Monitoring Plots as Sentinel Sites for Emerging Infectious Disease
- Katharine Pelican (University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine)
- Peter Daszak (Consortium for Conservation Medicine)
- Robert Wirtz (Entomology Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Stuart Davies (Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory Network)
- Jeff Bender (Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, University of Minnesota)
- Daniel Brooks (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto)
- Kimberly Lindblade (CDC Emerging Infectious Disease Program in Central America and Panama)
- Jonathan Epstein (Consortium for Conservation Medicine)
Description:
From deer to insects to fowl, wild animals contribute significantly to the more than 75% of zoonotic diseases that transfer from animals to humans. Recent research suggests that tropical forest ecosystems are 'hotspots' for disease emergence from wildlife into humans and livestock. Better understanding of disease host and pathogen interactions in tropical forest ecosystems is needed to prevent the emergence of new diseases as has happened with SARS, HIV, Ebola and Nipah virus in recent years.
Due to time and economic costs involved in establishing discrete wildlife studies that pair these two elements, this proposal seeks instead to tie wildlife and vector disease work into 22 existing long-term ecological research sites at the Smithsonian Institution. Federal agencies, non-profits and academic partners will meet to identify key sites across the globe and develop strategies and partnerships integral to monitoring environmental change, pathogen evolution and disease emergence.
3. Training One Health Scientists: Developing a New Paradigm
- Julia Ponder (University of Minnesota)
- Katharine Pelican (University of Minnesota)
- Michelle Willette (The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota)
- Jonathan H. Epstein (The Consortium for Conservation Medicine)
- Suzan Murray (Smithsonian National Zoological Park)
- Carol Rubin (National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Gretchen Kaufman (Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine)
Description:
Protecting human and animal health requires a better understanding of the linkages between wildlife, domestic animals, humans and the environment. In this “one health” approach, the demonstration of ecosystem health is key. This field integrates human and veterinary medicine, conservation biology, public health, basic science, agriculture and economics.
This proposal seeks to increase the number of working professionals skilled in ecosystem health to ensure greater management of dilemmas within the disease convergence. Strategies for the development and dissemination of ecosystem health education will be conceived by partners from public, private and non-governmental partners seeking to establish criteria and proficiencies necessary for educational programs and professionals in this field.
4. One Health: Integrating Wildlife Health - Strategic Planning Workshop
- Michelle Willette (The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota)
- Katey Pelican (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota)
- Joni Scheftel (State Public Health Veterinarian, Minnesota Department of Health)
- Laura H. Kahn (Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University)
- Craig Stephen (President/Director of Centre for Coastal Health)
- F. Joshua Dein (NBII Wildlife Disease Information Node, USGS National Wildlife HealthCenter)
- Philip M. Jenni (Executive Director, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center)
Description:
Tracking the potential impact of wildlife populations and diseases upon the human population requires having samples from sick birds, deer and other woodland creatures. Also needed is sufficient health data that describes sick animals that may be encountered by wildlife clinics.
Seeking to meet both of these challenges, this proposal will develop a centralized and computerized data recording and retrieval system for the collection of wildlife health data. Linked to partners in conservation medicine, wildlife veterinary medicine, zoology, public health, epidemiology and biostatistics, the long-term goal of the project is to unite these disciplines in creating a national or international network of professionally staffed wildlife clinics that track wild animal health data that will eventually better enable the protection of animals and humans.