23 February 2010
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Phone: (203) 668-0282
Url: www.humanitarian.net
United Nations Arts Initiative
Arts Integration Into Education
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Pathobiologics International:
Url: www.pathobiologics.org
One Health Initiative Unites Human and Veterinary
Medicine
by Stephen M. Apatow: Founder, Humanitarian Resource
Institute, United Nations Arts Initiative, Pathobiologics International.
[1]
In 2006, Los Alamos National Labs sponsored
the Future of Biodetection Systems Workshop to bring together industry,
academia, national labs, and federal agency personnel in an interactive
process, to develop a roadmap for research and development investment in
biodetection. The focus of the program was emerging infectious diseases
and the keynote address "DNA-based Detection Technologies" [2]
targeted the need for collaboration of human and veterinary
medicine as we confronted the global infectious disease threat:
New and reemerging infectious diseases will
pose a rising global health threat and will complicate
US and global security over the next 20 years.
These diseases will endanger US citizens at home
and abroad, threaten US armed forces deployed overseas,
and exacerbate social and political instability in key
countries and regions in which the United States has significant
interests. -- The
Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States:
National Intelligence Council, January 2000. [3]
Today, 10 years into the NIC projection, the world is in the midst
of the early waves [4] of a WHO Level 6 Pandemic [5] in conjunction with
an international economic emergency. [6] Physicians, veterinarians
and scientists privileged with access to genomic maps of high consequence
pathogens, [7] comprehend the meaning of world trade and travel being shut
down for 12-24 months, by an outbreak that can spread across the globe
in a 24-48 hours via air travel. [8,9]
Today, the "One Health Initiative," is a movement to forge co-equal,
all inclusive collaborations between physicians, veterinarians, and other
scientific-health related disciplines, has been endorsed by various major
medical organizations and health agencies, including the American Veterinary
Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Society for Microbiology
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Additionally,
more than 400 prominent scientists, physicians and veterinarians worldwide
have endorsed the initiative. On the web:
One Health Initiative
Url: www.onehealthinitiative.com
Twitter: OneHealthNews
References:
1.Stephen Michael Apatow: Founder: Humanitarian Resource Institute,
United Nations Arts Initiative, Pathobiologics International. Url: www.apatow.org
2. DNA Based Detection Technologies: Keynote: Stephen M. Apatow, Future
of Biodetection Systems Workshop, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Url: http://www.pathobiologics.org/btac/lanl/bioscience/ref/SMABDS_Final.pdf
3. The Global Infectious Disease Threat
and Its Implications for the United States: National Intelligence Council,
January 2000. Url: http://www.dni.gov/nic/special_globalinfectious.html
4. 1918 influenza: the mother of all
pandemics: Taubenberger JK, Morens DM., Emerg Infect Dis. 2006
Jan. Url: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0979.htm
5. Current WHO phase of pandemic alert:
World Health Organization. Url: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html
6. IBAHRI: Government Debt: Default Projections: Humanitarian Resource
Institute, 18 February 2010. Includes IBAHRI: G-192: Scope of Global
Debt Crisis in Focus: Humanitarian Resource Institute, 10 February 2010.
Url: http://www.unarts.org/news/ibahri_2102010.html
7. Bioinformatics: Pathological Diagnostics.
Humanitarian Resource Institute, Pathobiologics International. Url: http://www.humanitarian.net/biodefense/bioinformatics/
8. SARS Down But Still a Threat:
National Intelligence Council, Intelligence Community Assessment, August
2003. Url: http://www.humanitarian.net/law/ref/sars_nic82003.pdf
9. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) Biodefense and Epidemiological Tracking: Humanitarian Resource
Institute, Pathobiologics International. Url: http://www.humanitarian.net/biodefense/sars_biodefense.html
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