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Global One Health News

February 2022

GOHi hosts CARES Act annual review meeting

The Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) is an implementing partner for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a five-year multi-partner program funded by the U.S. CDC to strengthen Ethiopia’s core International Health Regulation (IHR) capabilities. GOHi facilitated the annual meeting to review program achievements and implementation challenges during year one.

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GOHi highlights

New GOHi Publications page

Check out the new GOHi-affiliated Publications page on our website! GOHi has a long history of impact highlighted through its extensive publication record that we are excited to share. Full access is available by clicking the title. If you have a new GOHi-affiliated publication or see one missing from our list, please send it to Barbara Patton at patton.471@osu.edu as a PDF.

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Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program is now accepting applications. This program hosts fellows in six African countries to conduct research, teach and mentor graduate students and co-develop curriculum. Fellows must be African born, currently live in the United States or Canada and work at a higher education institution. The deadline to apply is February 28.

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GOHi facilitates specimen referral system training

Ohio State Global One Health, LLC, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), conducted a training workshop for Ethiopian Postal Service employees who transport influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) samples as part of the CDC funded IHR cooperative agreement. The two-day training workshop in Addis Ababa hosted 20 participants from nine regions.

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Workshop to strengthen Ethiopia’s IHR capabilities

Since March 2021, Ohio State Global One Health, LLC, the EPHI and other in-country partners have been exerting a tremendous effort towards strengthening the influenza surveillance system as part of the CARES Act. To enhance surveillance officers' theoretical and practical knowledge and skill on ILI and SARI, Ohio State Global One Health, LLC, held workshops from January 12-14, 2022, in Sululta, Ethiopia.

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Global One Health Day Commemoration event in Ethiopia

GOHi participated in the 2021 Global One Health Day Ethiopia Commemoration event on January 18 at the EPHI. The event included keynote speeches, panel discussions and exhibitions. The Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment Protection Authority, Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority and development partners reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening One Health in Ethiopia by signing a joint letter of commitment. Desalegne Mengesha, GOHi Eastern Africa Office administrative director, and Ashagrie Kibret, rabies coordinator, represented GOHi at the event.

OHEARP fellows highlight

One Health Ethics and Regulatory Procedures (OHEARP) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) supplemental award to support the parental D43 (One Health Eastern Africa Research Training) program. OHEARP researches ethical issues and addresses bioethical concerns in One Health research, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. OHEARP has two postdoctoral fellows in eastern Africa:

Joseph Mwanzia Nguta is a veterinary surgeon by training and veterinary pharmacologist and toxicologist by specialization based in Kenya. He is a senior lecturer at the Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology and a faculty member of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nairobi.

Kuastros Mekonnen is a veterinarian with a master's degree in Epidemiology from Addis Ababa University and a PhD in infectious diseases and preventive medicine, specializing in molecular epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from Seoul National University, South Korea. He is based in Ethiopia and currently working at the National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Center, a national reference laboratory, as a researcher and AMR focal person and a team leader for the epidemiology unit.

Additions to the GOHi team

Kayleigh Gallagher

In January 2022, Kayleigh Gallagher re-joined the GOHi team in a new capacity and is now serving as a project manager for a portfolio of NIH, CDC and CDC-funded grants. Most recently, she worked with the Consortium of Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Education, a nationwide organization of 20 colleges and universities led by Ohio State. She has a bachelor’s in international studies and French with minors in public health and agricultural, environmental and development economics (AEDE) from Ohio State and is a graduate student in the AEDE master’s program.

Amanda Harvey

In January 2022, Amanda Harvey joined GOHi as a project manager supporting CDC-funded grants. She spent the last year and a half working as a project coordinator for an Ohio State NIH R01 funded longitudinal research study. Prior to her position at Ohio State, she spent the last six years working in various locations in Guatemala as a program manager for Semilla Nueva. Harvey has a Master of Public Health from Ohio State and a bachelor’s in business, marketing and economics from Miami University. She is currently enrolled in Ohio State’s MBA program with a specialization in data analytics.

Upcoming events

May 26-28

International Conference on Quality of Education

Addis Ababa University hosts "Education in Emergencies in East Africa: Implications for Sustainable Development" conference.

June 1-2

Quantitative Methodology Center 2022 (QMC22) Conference

The College of Education and Human Ecology will host "Why Quantitative Research Matters: An Interdisciplinary Approach Toward Equity and Capacity Building from Local to International Reach."

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