__April 3, 2012: One Health Core Competencies - Building Capacity for Response to Emerging Pandemic Threats
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The USAID PREDICT Project: Building a global early warning system for emerging zoonoses
_ Meets Tuesday, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at
the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
15 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Led by:
Felicia Nutter, DVM, PhD, DACZM, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Med, USAID Grantee, RESPOND Project, Sr. Tech. Officer
Chris Whittier, DVM, PhD, Associate Veterinarian at Smithsonian
Learning Objectives: Dr Felicia Nutter
1. Define "competency" and explain how competencies relate to education/training and performance on a job (or elsewhere)
2. Explain the proposed "core competencies" for a One Health approach to outbreak response and emerging pandemic diseases
3. Compare and contrast multi/inter/transdisciplinarity
Learning Objectives: Dr Chris Whittier
1. Understand the importance of wildlife in the emergence of infectious diseases.
2. Understand the important role of humans in the emergence of diseases from wildlife.
3. Be familiar with the PREDICT surveillance strategy (species, interfaces, etc.)
4. Be able to explain the challenges of pathogen discovery.
Suggested Readings
1. Anholt RM et al. 2012. Strategies for Collaboration in the Interdisciplinary Field of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. Zoonoses Public Health DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01449.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01449.x/abstract
2. Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. 2010. A National Interprofessional Competency Framework. Available online at: www.cihc.ca/files/CIHC_IPCompetencies_Feb1210.pdf
3. Choi BCK and Pak AWP. 2006. Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and trandisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 1.Definitions, objctives, and evidence of effectiveness. Clin Invest Med 29(6):351-364.
http://cimonline.ca/index.php/cim/article/download/3140/1269
4. Frenk J et al. 2010. Health professionals for a new century-transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world. The Lancet 376:1923-1958.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4626403
5. Lane, IF and Bogue EG. 2010. Faculty perspectives regarding the importance and place of nontechnical competencies in veterinary medical education at five North American colleges of veterinary medicine. JAVMA 237(1): 53-64.
http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.237.1.53
6. Parkes MW et al. 2005. All Hands on Deck: Trandisciplinary Approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease. EcoHealth 2:258-272.
www.lesliebienen.com/images/pdfs/TD%20printed%20version.pdf
7. United Nations. Competencies for the Future. Available online at: www.unep.org/vacancies/PDF/competencies.pdf
8. USAID RESPOND Success Stories.
a. Practicing One Health Principles: Uganda Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak
b. One Health Central and Eastern Africa: A Locally Driven One Health Approach
c. Joint Training on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Equateur Province, DR Congo
d. Catalyzing Collaboration in Vietnam’s Wildlife Health Management
e. One Health Training Course in Wildlife, Livestock Disease and Public Health for African Ministries in Rwanda
9. Epstein et al. 2010. Identification of GBV-D, a Novel GB-like Flavivirus from Old World Frugivorous Bats (Pteropus giganteus) in Bangladesh. PLoS Pathogens 6(7):e1000972.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000972
10. Infectious Disease News. 2012. International project focuses on cross-species transmission of infectious diseases. Available online at: http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/view.aspx?rID=91629
11. Jones K.E. 2008. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 451:990-994.
http://www.ecohealthalliance.org/publications/13-global_trends_in_emerging_infectious_diseases
12. Lipkin, W.I. 2008. Pathogen Discovery. PLoS Pathogens 4(4):e1000002.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000002
13. USAID|PREDICT. 2011. Summary. Available online at: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ohi/local-assets/pdfs/PREDICTsummary-12-9-2011.pdf
15 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Led by:
Felicia Nutter, DVM, PhD, DACZM, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Med, USAID Grantee, RESPOND Project, Sr. Tech. Officer
Chris Whittier, DVM, PhD, Associate Veterinarian at Smithsonian
Learning Objectives: Dr Felicia Nutter
1. Define "competency" and explain how competencies relate to education/training and performance on a job (or elsewhere)
2. Explain the proposed "core competencies" for a One Health approach to outbreak response and emerging pandemic diseases
3. Compare and contrast multi/inter/transdisciplinarity
Learning Objectives: Dr Chris Whittier
1. Understand the importance of wildlife in the emergence of infectious diseases.
2. Understand the important role of humans in the emergence of diseases from wildlife.
3. Be familiar with the PREDICT surveillance strategy (species, interfaces, etc.)
4. Be able to explain the challenges of pathogen discovery.
Suggested Readings
1. Anholt RM et al. 2012. Strategies for Collaboration in the Interdisciplinary Field of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. Zoonoses Public Health DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01449.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01449.x/abstract
2. Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. 2010. A National Interprofessional Competency Framework. Available online at: www.cihc.ca/files/CIHC_IPCompetencies_Feb1210.pdf
3. Choi BCK and Pak AWP. 2006. Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and trandisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 1.Definitions, objctives, and evidence of effectiveness. Clin Invest Med 29(6):351-364.
http://cimonline.ca/index.php/cim/article/download/3140/1269
4. Frenk J et al. 2010. Health professionals for a new century-transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world. The Lancet 376:1923-1958.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4626403
5. Lane, IF and Bogue EG. 2010. Faculty perspectives regarding the importance and place of nontechnical competencies in veterinary medical education at five North American colleges of veterinary medicine. JAVMA 237(1): 53-64.
http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.237.1.53
6. Parkes MW et al. 2005. All Hands on Deck: Trandisciplinary Approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease. EcoHealth 2:258-272.
www.lesliebienen.com/images/pdfs/TD%20printed%20version.pdf
7. United Nations. Competencies for the Future. Available online at: www.unep.org/vacancies/PDF/competencies.pdf
8. USAID RESPOND Success Stories.
a. Practicing One Health Principles: Uganda Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak
b. One Health Central and Eastern Africa: A Locally Driven One Health Approach
c. Joint Training on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Equateur Province, DR Congo
d. Catalyzing Collaboration in Vietnam’s Wildlife Health Management
e. One Health Training Course in Wildlife, Livestock Disease and Public Health for African Ministries in Rwanda
9. Epstein et al. 2010. Identification of GBV-D, a Novel GB-like Flavivirus from Old World Frugivorous Bats (Pteropus giganteus) in Bangladesh. PLoS Pathogens 6(7):e1000972.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000972
10. Infectious Disease News. 2012. International project focuses on cross-species transmission of infectious diseases. Available online at: http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/view.aspx?rID=91629
11. Jones K.E. 2008. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 451:990-994.
http://www.ecohealthalliance.org/publications/13-global_trends_in_emerging_infectious_diseases
12. Lipkin, W.I. 2008. Pathogen Discovery. PLoS Pathogens 4(4):e1000002.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000002
13. USAID|PREDICT. 2011. Summary. Available online at: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ohi/local-assets/pdfs/PREDICTsummary-12-9-2011.pdf