January 2021 was National One Health Awareness Month. During the month we recognized the importance of a collaborative, interdisciplinary—One Health—approach for finding solutions to the public health, environmental, and conservation challenges of the 21st century. In this blog, I share the 31 daily social media posts from the month. Looking back at the time between January 2020 and January 2021 One Health Awareness Months, and thinking of the pandemic that separates the two, it should be even clearer that there is only One Health.
Day 1 #OneHealth Awareness Month. To start 2021 One Health Month – why not read last year’s 31 day posts from pre COVID? Find in blog posts on http://drsharondeem.com/blog
Day 2 #OneHealth Awareness Month. This interview from pre-COVID pandemic is worth a listen. Saint Louis Zoo Helping Humans by Helping Animals
Healthy wildlife populations are necessary for healthy ecosystems.
Day 3 #OneHealth Awareness Month. If you have time, check out our interview – COVID-19 and One Health MFJ Interview
Day 4 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Food security and food safety food production limits sit top on the One Health agenda – how much would food cost if we factored in planetary impacts? The Real Cost of Food
Day 5 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Know what you eat and how it may impact human, animal, and environmental health. Palm Oil and forests and people
Day 6 #OneHealth Awareness Month is about #AntibioticResistance - take a look at Dr. Nieto Claudin's PhD on the topic and our 2018 adventure. Seven Days at Alcedo Volcano
Day 7 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Today’s topic is Climate Change impacts on the health of humans, animals, and environments. Even with all the noise of the political unrest, we must keep our energy strong to overcome the Climate Crisis with Climate Action.
Day 8 #OneHealth Awareness Month is #ClimateChange and #FoodSecurity. @stlzoo Institute for #ConservationMedicine is working on #camel #health issues in #Kenya with @ericfevre @ILRI and @mpalalive Enjoy the camels and a fly video! https://www.stlzoo.org/conservation/institute-for-conservation-medicine/dromedary-camels-project
Day 9 #OneHealth AwarenessMonth #Comparative #Medicine - the backbone of #veterinary and #human medicine. This @ucdavis et al study on the ACE2 receptor across taxa is excellent to help human and non-human animals #COVIDー19
Day 10 #OneHealth Awareness Month is on “organizations around the world working for One Health.” That is what we do! If you haven’t visited our webpages recently, please do so @stlzoo Institute for #Conservation #Medicine – Lots of new content (still with happy Galapagos tortoise photo!) including webinar links on right bar. https://stlzoo.org/conservationmedicine
Day 11 - #Zoonotic diseases can be minimized with sound #Conservation and strong #Preventive #Health measures.
AZA Reduce the Risk
Day 12 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Mid-month might be a good time for each of us to check our own ecological footprint https://footprintcalculator.org
You can learn more about your footprint at
http://drsharondeem.com/blog
Day 13 #OneHealth Awareness Month. With this week’s news about gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, it is a great time to remember that #Zoonotic #Diseases are bi-directional - http://drsharondeem.com/blog
Day 14 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Our #EndocrineDisruptorChemicals (EDCs) and turtle health and conservation studies show how #animals may serve as sentinels for #human and #environmental #health. Check out our video BPA Overrides sex determination in turtles
Day 15 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Hot off the press NOAA 2020 second hottest year behind 2016 2020 was the second hottest year (after 2016) on record. We are all feeling the heat. Some turtle populations even have skewed sex ratios because of the #ClimateCrisis!
Day 16 #OneHealth Awareness Month = economic benefits of health care for #animals, #humans, and #environments. #COVID is the 10 trillion $ wake-up call. We need collaborative, multidiscipline, preventive measures to stop #zoonotic #pathogen #spillover. One Health - The Key to Preventing COVID-19 from Becoming the New Normal
Day 17 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Great interview with Dr. Luis Padilla @stlzoo talking about how we work to keep the animals in ourcare safe from the #SARSCoV2 virus. #zoonoses impact human and non-human #animals.
How Saint Louis Zoo Protects its Animals from COVID
Day 18 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Today I celebrate a friend and colleague, Dr. Lilian Catenacci. We learned her first author paper “Individual, household and environmental factors associated with arboviruses in rural human populations, Brazil” is now in press in the journal #Zoonoses and #PublicHealth . This work adds to the amazing animal, human and environmental work Lilian leads in Brazil so we may better understand the conservation and public health impacts of Arboviruses.
Day 19 #OneHealth Awareness Day. Ever thought how nature provides human health benefits? There are too many to count! But, why not check out our @achandler11 and others' scientific paper on physiological and psychological benefits for visitors @Stlzoo Human Health Benefits of a Zoo Visit
Day 20 #OneHealth Awareness Month. A renewed feeling of #unity and #hope that we may overcome the wicked challenges we face. “The Hill We Climb” is once again possible. Thank you @TheAmandaGorman for your words and wisdom helping to lead us into the next chapter of herstory/history.
Day 21 #OneHealth Awareness Month. “Between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines – nor should there be.” Rudolf Virchow may have inspired Colorado - #veterinarians and other #healthcare professionals called upon to administer #COVID-19 #vaccines to humans as we work to get to the other side of this #zoonotic #pandemic
Day 22 of #OneHealth Awareness Month is One Health-One Welfare-One Planet. Has me thinking about the #OneWelfare movement https://www.onewelfareworld.org and how it is similar and different to conservation medicine, planetary health, one medicine, one health?
Day 23 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Take a few minutes to listen to and watch @TheAmandaGorman and her message of hope and #ClimateAction . Her new #Earthrise. Amanda Gorman - A New Earthrise
Day 24 #OneHealth Awareness Month looks at the link between human and animal abuse. The University of Tennessee Veterinary Social Work provides links to help us prevent this shared threat https://lnkd.in/ggmUhbb
Day 25 One Health Awareness Month. Thanks to the Saint Louis Zoo for sharing this on social media today. January is #OneHealth Awareness Month. One Health is an approach that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment.
The Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) addresses the growing disease challenges that threaten the survival of wild animal species and that negatively impact human public health by using a One Health approach. The ICM team works to ensure the health of animals, humans and environments.
Two examples of the ICM’s work include:
(1) Monitoring the health status of wildlife, domestic animals and humans in areas of the world where the growing human footprint, along with their domestic animals, moves closer to wildlife populations and into wild lands.
(2) Working to understanding disease issues that impact wildlife health and that may allow these species to serve as sentinels (indicators) of disease issues for humans and their domestic animals.
The ICM was founded in 2011. Scientists with ICM serve as key members of One Health teams globally as they work to prevent health crises by monitoring animal health, responding to disease outbreaks and providing health care for endangered wildlife.
https://Stlzoo.org/ICM
Day 26 #OneHealth Awareness Month. Wildlife trafficking is a challenge for animal welfare and conservation, and as COVID has made all too clear, also for human health and well-being. That is why we work to minimize the negative impacts associated with the wildlife trade. Read about one of our many projects Helping Radiated Tortoises in Madagascar
Day 27 #OneHealth Awareness Month is on #wildlife. I am so fortunate to be a #veterinarian working for the conservation of endangered species and providing health care for animals like Kotto. Kotto was a forest elephant orphaned when his mother was killed in a human - elephant conflict. Remember: No elephants = no forests = no planetary health.
Day 28 #OneHealth Awareness Month is how our #mental #health is linked to One Health. The #COVID-19 #pandemic is due to a growing human – wildlife interface such as #wildlife-trade that creates the serious #mental #health challenges many of us face today. It is all interconnected. Be kind to yourself.
Day 29 #OneHealth Awareness Month is on K-12 education. If you haven’t yet visited, check out Deborah Thomson, DVM and her work to do just this! http://www.onehealthlessons.com/
National #OneHealth Awareness Month Day 30 - The United Nations Sustainable Development 17 Goals to transform our world will ensure the health of humans,
animals, and environments.
Last day of #OneHealth Awareness Month. Seems a good time to wrap up with thoughts on how what we do today impacts tomorrow! NYT Opinion Climate Change Risks the last words in the article? "...the disruption to economies, societies and people caused by Covid-19 will pale in comparison.”
