Global One Health News

Gebreyes meets with partners in Ethiopia

Wondwossen Gebreyes, Global One Health initiative (GOHi) executive director, visited Ethiopia in December to visit key partners, including the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ministry of Education and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ethiopia Office. Gebreyes also met with the GOHi Eastern Africa Office regarding various projects in Ethiopia, current impact and future direction.

GOHi co-hosts conference in Bangalore, India

The India Gateway, GOHi and Foundation for Neglected Disease Research (FNDR) hosted an International Conference on Recent Advancement on TB and HIV Research in Bangalore, India on January 11. Shu-Hua Wang, infectious disease division and GOHi director of implementation science and research, and three faculty members from the Ohio State College of Medicine and Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity – Namal Liyanage, Murugesan Rajaram and Purnima Dubey – presented at the conference. The conference helped to establish a collaborative network for future research and initiatives.

GOHi members co-author paper on staph infection-induced kidney disease

Shu-Hua Wang, GOHi director of implementation science and research, and Joan Miquel Balada-Llasat, GOHi collaborator, recently worked with a team of Ohio State researchers to publish a genomic study in Kidney International Reports. Researchers aiming to predict which staph-infection patients might develop a related kidney disease have found a high frequency of gene mutations in the infecting bacteria of affected patients, which suggests these variants may play a role in the body’s initiation of the renal damage.