Office of Diversity and Inclusion leader receives American Council on Education award

Congratulations are in order for GOHi partner, James L. Moore III, vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, executive director of the Bell National Resource Center, on receiving the American Council on Education Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award was established to honor the late Reginald Wilson, the founding director of the Office of Minority Concerns. This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership and commitment on a national level to the advancement of racial and ethnic minorities and other underrepresented populations in higher education. View Moore’s acceptance speech and words of wisdom.

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GOHi Highlights

Michael Bisesi wins Distinguished Faculty Service

During a surprise visit from Ohio State leadership during the College of Public Health’s faculty and staff meeting, Michael Bisesi, PhD, vice dean of academic affairs and academic administration and professor and interim chair of environmental health sciences, was honored with the President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service.

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Fellow spotlight:
Fasil Mengistu

Fasil Mengistu, DVM, MS, works for the Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI) in zoonoses diseases research.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Health Biotechnology at Addis Aaba University and his project is titled, "Genomic Diversity of Salmonellae in Human beings and Meats of Food Animals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia."

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GOHi Updates

Tigist Endashaw resigns

Tigist Endashaw resigned from her post as the regional officer program manager in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 31. Endashaw served in the role since 2016 and helped GOHi establish its Global One Health, LLC (GOH, LLC) office in Addis Ababa in 2017. She supported many Ohio State faculty, staff and students who traveled to Ethiopia and helped coordinate the Global One Health Summer Institute activities since 2012 (even before GOH, LLC was official opened).

Welcome, Amy Mihalakas

Amy Mihalakas joined the GOHi headquarters team at Ohio State on May 24 as the assistant director of strategic operations. Mihalakas has 15 years of experience in program management with a focus on planning, grant writing, organizational change and maximizing programmatic impact. She has a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from Capital University and a Master of Philosophy in HIV/AIDS and society from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Features

Global One Health perspectives: Anticipating the future

Lonnie King, DVM, MS, MPA, Diplomate ACVPM, Ohio State’s College of Veterinary Medicine dean emeritus and GOHi board member, details the increasing importance of the One Health approach in his piece, “Anticipating the future.”

“Traditional isolated and siloed processes and interventions need to be replaced by holistic, integrated and multidisciplinary approaches that focus more on preventing and addressing problems closer to their origins – often in animals and our ecosystems. This transformative approach is the essence of One Health.”

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Clinical specimen collection publication in BioMed Central Medical Education Journal

As part of GOHi’s ongoing Global Health Security Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the technical team and partners shared a recent publication, Standardizing clinical culture specimen collection in Ethiopia: A training-of-trainers. Proper specimen collection is central to improving the delivery of quality patient care by ensuring optimal yield of diagnostic tests, guiding appropriate management, and targeting treatment. This is especially critical for accurate and effective COVID-19 testing. The article describes the development and implementation of a training-of-trainers educational program designed to improve clinical culture specimen collection among healthcare personnel in Ethiopia.

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Reminder: monthly GOHi webinars

On the third Thursday of each month, faculty experts and industry thought leaders present on a One Health topic. Past webinars were recorded and are available to watch online.

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External News

April 30

View the main takeaways from the 4th Planetary Health Annual Meeting & Festival.

Recording

Global Health Day conference, "Decolonizing Global Health to Advance Health Equity."

The University of California hosted a virtual Global Health Day conference, "Decolonizing Global Health to Advance Health Equity." The recording is available online.