university network initiatives on one health (ecosystems, people and animals)

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University Initiatives in One Health – East African

PerspectiveP. M. F. Mbithi, A.G. Thaiyah, J. T. Njoka and Susan Vandewoude

Background One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA) network Definition of One Health Principles of One Health The Scope of One Health Program Priorities of One Health Program Capacity Building Teaching, Research and Service Link with The Center for Sustainable Dryland

Ecosystems and Societies (CSDES)

Presentation Outline

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Human population

38,610,097 (2009)

Livestock Population (2009) Cattle 18 million Sheep 17 million Goats 28 million Camels 3 million Poultry 32 million

Wildlife

Rich in diversity and numbers

Background


Network of universities in 6 countries in

Africa and 3 in USA:

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia

and Democratic Republic of Congo

Colorado State University, University of

Minnesota and Tufts University in USA

ONE HEALTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA (OHCEA)


Vision

A global leader in One Health approaches to

sustainable health for healthy productive

animals, prosperous communities and

productive ecosystems

OHCEA


Mission

To drive transformational change for

continuous improvement of health and well-

being of humans, animals, and ecosystems

through multidisciplinary research, training

and community service.

OHCEA


MAP OF KENYA

University of Nairobi



The interaction between human health, animal health and ecosytem health.

DEFINITION OF ONE HEALTH


1. Multi-disciplinary approach to training/teaching.2. Multi-disciplinary research.3. Multi-disciplinary response to disease

outbreaks.4. Multi-disciplinary prediction and preparedness

to disease outbreaks.5. Collaborations with institutions, government

and non-governmental organisations on matters of One Health.

6. Leadership for One Health and multi-disciplinary activities.

7. Catalyst for changes on approaches to One Health.

8. Platform for staff exchange on One Health activities.

PRINCIPLES OF OH


1. Founder member of One Health Central and East Africa (OHCEA).

2. Sensitization of students and faculty on OH in the University of Nairobi and Moi School of Public Health.

3. Joint workshops to plan for co-teaching between veterinary schools and schools of public health in Kenya. An agreement was reached on co-teaching in the areas of zoonotic diseases so that vets teach the vet aspect while the PH schools teach the medical aspects.

THE SCOPE OF OH PROGRAM AT UON


4. Workshops to institute quality assurance in the two Kenyan Universities in OHCEA. Institutional champions were selected with a view to establishing institutional research units to promote quality assurance.

5. Review of the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine has already been done and OH module created.

6. Carried out training needs assessment for in-service training in One Health.

7. Formed a student’s One Health Club (active with student exchange with CSU).



8. The network plans to use e-learning to enhance co-teaching and collaboration. This has involved the establishment of an e-learning platform in the two OHCEA Universities in Kenya. The program is called University of Nairobi Science Knowledgebase (UONSK) and Moi University Science Knowledgebase. Currently, there are trainings on the use of the platform by faculty and students.

9. One Health focal persons have country coordinating committees (inclusive of ministry of health, veterinary department, center for disease control and other stakeholders).


Capacity building

Teaching

Research

Service

OHCEA PRIORITIES


1. Future workforce OH compliant Pre-service curriculum review

Targets undergraduate and postgraduate curricula

Programs with a OH module

OHCEA Capacity Building


2. Current workforce OH compliant In-service training on key OH issues

OH leadership Joint outbreak surveillance and

response Needs assessment for training

OHCEA Capacity Building


1. Preparing joint student field practicums.

2. OH demonstration site established in Tanzania for joint field practicums.

3. Students OH clubs started.

OHCEA TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SERVICE


CSU Student “One Health Club” linkage with UoN Student Association

Anna Fagre, Michael Marricle, Kelvin Momanyi In the Poudre Canyon near Fort Collins, COUniversity of Nairobi ISO 9001:2008 18 Certified http://www.uonbi.ac.ke

Establishment of OH Quality assurance

platform in universities

Inter-university co-teaching and

collaboration in OH especially zoonotic

diseases

E-learning activities on OH utilizing soft

wares.

Influencing policy formulation through

research.

OHCEA TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SERVICE


The Center for Sustainable Dryland Ecosystems and

Societies (CSDES) vision is excellence in management

of dryland ecosystems and societies. To realize this,

one of the strategies the Center employs is an

integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the

management of ecosystems, humans and animals

(livestock and wildlife). This is supported through

the Center objective on ‘improved coordination of

interdisciplinary education, research and outreach for

drylands in Kenya.’

LINK WITH The Center for Sustainable Dryland Ecosystems and

Societies (CSDES)



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