Towards One Health: Increasing Awareness of Animal Health Among Public Health Stakeholders

Authors

  • Fernanda C. Dórea Swedish Zoonoses Centre, National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Céline Dupuy French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), Lyon Laboratory, Epidemiology Unit, Lyon, France.
  • Judy E. Akkina United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, Fort Collins, CO, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5184

Abstract

The recent focus on the 'One Medicine' concept has resulted in an increased awareness that the control of diseases in animal populations, whether zoonotic or not, can be of great public health importance. However, awareness of the activities developed in the field of animal health is still low among public health workers. In this roundtable the facilitators will encourage discussion regarding what can public and animal health learn from each other, focusing particularly on how this cooperation can be promoted.

Author Biographies

Fernanda C. Dórea, Swedish Zoonoses Centre, National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden.

Fernanda C. Dórea Fernanda graduated from veterinary school in Brazil. Her experience with animal health includes  work in four countries: as a federal veterinary inspector in Brazil tasked with various animal disease control programs; as a masters student in the USA (Georgia) working closely with the poultry industry in order to improve biosecurity measures; as a PhD student in Canada developing an early disease warning system for the province of Ontario; and currently she is involved in early disease warning and risk-based surveillance in the National Veterinary Institute in Sweden. Her current work in Sweden's National Zoonosis Centre, and previous published works on foodborne diseases control and risk assessments of human exposure to avian influenza document her experience in bridging animal and public health.

Céline Dupuy, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), Lyon Laboratory, Epidemiology Unit, Lyon, France.

Céline Dupuy graduated as a veterinarian in 2004 from the national veterinary school of Lyon, France. During a 5 year period as chief of the animal health service of the French Guiana veterinary services, she collaborated closely with human health epidemiologists for rabies case management. She then earned a Masters degree in biostatistics and public health in 2010. Since 2011 Céline is working for the Epidemiology unit of the French Agency for Food Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety and completing a PhD on the use of cattle meat inspection data for syndromic surveillance. She was responsible for the animal health part of the Triple S European project which included a specific topic on synergy between human and animal health in syndromic surveillance.

Judy E. Akkina, United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Judy E. Akkina received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1983 and her Ph.D degree in environmental epidemiology from Colorado State University (CSU) in 2000.  Judy has worked at the Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health since 1995 and is currently an epidemiologist with the National Surveillance Unit.  Judy's current work focuses on design and implementation of syndromic surveillance systems to provide early detection of endemic, zoonotic, transboundary, environmental and newly emerging animal diseases and to identify animal health trends.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Dórea, F. C., Dupuy, C., & Akkina, J. E. (2014). Towards One Health: Increasing Awareness of Animal Health Among Public Health Stakeholders. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5184

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Roundtables