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December 2022

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Happy holidays from GOHi

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) wishes its partners – faculty members, staff, students, and external stakeholders – happy holidays and a successful 2023. Thank you to everyone who engaged with GOHi virtually or in person.

GOHi Monthly Webinar: One Health Leadership

The December webinar featured Lonnie King, dean emeritus, Ohio State College of Veterinary Medicine, first director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Wondwossen Gebreyes, GOHi executive director, president of the Global One Health, LLC, and Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor, Molecular Epidemiology.

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Features

Faculty spotlight: Sally Miller

Sally A. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences in Plant Pathology. Miller’s research focuses on developing sustainable disease management strategies for conventional and organic vegetable crops in open field and protected production systems. As a GOHi executive committee member, Miller actively participates in One Health research, notably on food safety, antimicrobial resistance and food security.

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GOHi staff spotlight: Feven Tigistu-Sahle

Feven Tigistu-Sahle is a research scientist at the GOHi Eastern Africa office and a visiting researcher at the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Program of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Tigistu-Sahle’s specialization in lipidomics-based bioscience research focuses on identifying lipid biomarkers for communicable and non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tigistu-Sahle's background is in human physiology and health biotechnology.

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Baiocchi receives Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award

Robert Baiocchi, professor in the Division of Hematology at Ohio State, Executive Committee member of GOHi and member of the Leukemia Research Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – The James, will receive the Ohio Cancer Research 2022 Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award. Baiocchi’s research is dedicated to patients with aggressive lymphomas, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease and AIDS malignancies.

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Kariuki awarded Honorary Doctorate degree from LSTM

Longtime GOHi collaborator, MPI of the One Health Eastern Africa Research Training Program (OHEART) and Director-General of the Kenya Medical Research Institute, professor Sam Kariuki has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in recognition of his contribution to research in Tropical Medicine, especially in Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance.

Ohio State facilitates Curriculum Assessment Workshops

The Ohio State Veterinary Public Health (VPH) Program representatives facilitated Curriculum Assessment Workshops at three veterinary schools in Southeast Asia: Khon Kaen University (Thailand), Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia), and the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The workshops were part of the Assessment and Implementation of Day 1 Competencies (AID-1C) methodology, developed through the Veterinary Education Twinning Programme with the University of Gondar in Ethiopia and led by VPH Program Director, Armando Hoet.

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Gebreyes visits key partners in Kenya and Ethiopia

During a recent visit to Kenya, Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Executive Director Wondwossen Gebreyes attended strategic meetings with leaders of key partners. These meetings allowed Gebreyes to discuss opportunities for One Health collaborative research and capacity building to strengthen the relationships between GOHi and partners.

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GOHi Eastern Africa Office updates

Causality assessment of Adverse Events Following Immunizations

GOHi collaborated with the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA) to undertake a causality assessment of adverse events following immunizations (AEFI) that were reported to the national pharmacovigilance unit at EFDA. Members of the national pharmacovigilance advisory committee and pharmacovigilance experts and advisors from EFDA conducted the assessment.

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GOHi recognized by the Government of Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) recently recognized GOHi for its outstanding contributions towards strengthening Ethiopia's national Public Health Emergency Management and laboratory system. In a recent workshop, the EPHI reviewed the national COVID-19 response and discussed integrating COVID-19 response functions into the existing routine health system programs with national and regional stakeholders.

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Training on investigation and causality assessment

GOHi and the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA) collaborated to deliver training on investigation and causality assessments of AEFI for the regional-level AEFI investigation task force. The training aims to decentralize the national pharmacovigilance investigation and causality assessment capability to the sub-national level and create an efficient causality assessment process to generate evidence on vaccine safety quickly.

External news

Biden-⁠Harris administration announces global health security partnerships and releases annual report

As part of the administration's plan to prioritize global health security, it recently announced new and continuing partnerships with countries around the world. The administration also released its annual report, "Progress and Impact of U.S. Government Investments in Global Health Security."

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