Gebreyes elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Wondwossen Gebreyes, executive director of the Global One Health initiative, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Gebreyes was recognized by the academy for his leadership in molecular epidemiology and global health and for providing fundamental insight into how animal agricultural and environmental systems influence public health, community development and livelihood worldwide.

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Join GOHi for 10-year celebration closing ceremony

This livestreamed, virtual event will be on Thursday, November 4 from 12-3 p.m. EST in honor of One Health Day. It will include remarks from key Ohio State University leadership, a panel discussion about COVID-19 and its impact on higher education and global engagement, and a panel discussion among the Global One Health initiative directors addressing GOHi’s future sustainability and envisioning the next 10 years.

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View 10-year celebration plenary talks and panel discussions

The closing ceremony wraps up the celebration, including an opening ceremony, where over 24 international partners received recognition and a new GOHi impact video was revealed, a series of plenary talks from GOHi partners throughout North America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America discussing collaborative accomplishments and the importance of such partnerships, and a series of panel discussions. Details and recordings for all sessions can be found below:

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GOHi highlights

Take free One Health courses through ScarletCanvas

Ohio State migrated all former electronic courses from Canvas Network to ScarletCanvas. Launched in early October 2021, ScarletCanvas offers primarily specialty and nontraditional course options that are shorter in length, public-facing and do not result in college credit. Check out the One Health category for free, self-paced courses about a variety of One Health topics.

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Mekuria conducts molecular training in Ethiopia

Zelalem Mekuria, associate director of the infectious disease molecular epidemiology lab for GOHi, travelled to Ethiopia to conduct molecular training at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute. The project aims to achieve International Health Regulation standards and benchmarks, develop a well-connected response network for disease outbreaks and public health emergencies and more.

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External news

The International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance: Registration closes today

The International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED) is a virtual conference from November 4-6, 2021. GOHi is proud to work with Promed, the International Society for Infectious Diseases and other partners for this conference. IMED gives professionals working in the One Health field an opportunity to present, challenge and discuss their findings and ideas. Registration closes November 1 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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SEE-U accepting submissions for their first conference

The International Cooperation Unit at Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil (UFPR), CAPES and the PRINT Program are excited to announce SEE-U: Sustainable Development Goals, a UFPR global scientific, virtual conference from December 1-3, 2021. SEE-U aims to engage universities, communities and policymakers in creating strategies to tackle the global challenges through the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations.

The conference is open to the public and there is no cost to attend or to submit papers. Submissions to oral and poster presentations are open until November 15 and all prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts online.