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>> Thank you, Sarah.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Laura Murrell, and I work in the One Health Office

at the National Center for Emerging

and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention.

On behalf of the One Health Office,

I'm pleased to welcome you to the month Zoonoses

and One Health updates call on December 4 2019.

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Before we begin today's presentation,

Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh,

Director of CDC's One Health Office will share some news

and updates with you.

>> Hi, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for today's ZOHU Call and welcome

to all of our new call participants.

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To begin today's call, I'd like to share some highlights

from the One Health News from CDC included

in today's ZOHU Call email newsletter.

First, CDC's 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report is

available online.

We'll have a presentation about this report on today's call.

The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response invites public

comment on the third edition of its guidelines

for foodborne disease outbreak response.

And CDC's new Typhus fact sheet is available in six languages.

There are some upcoming webinars of interest

that includes CDC's Updated Guidance for the Use

of Intravenous Artesunate to Treat Severe Malaria

in the United States on December 10th

and the National Association of County

and City Health Officials will present Leveraging One Health

Collaborations to Enhance Investigation Capacity

on December 12th.

We've shared links to recent publications on several topics,

including Genomic Epidemiology as a Public Health Tool

to Combat Mosquito-Borne Virus Outbreaks, a Multistate Outbreak

of Salmonella Infections Linked to Raw Turkey Products

in the US, Botulism Type E After Consumption of Salt-Cured Fish

in New Jersey, and the December EID Journal has a

zoonoses theme.

Regarding outbreaks, new outbreaks have been posted

for E.coli infections linked to romaine lettuce

and hepatitis A virus infections linked to fresh blackberries.

Updates have been posted for outbreaks of listeria

and an outbreak of salmonella infections linked

to ground beef.

There's a selected list of ongoing and past US outbreaks

of zoonotic diseases, as well as information on staying safe

and healthy around animals, available on CDC's Healthy Pets,

Healthy People website.

And as always, the complete current CDC outbreak list,

including foodborne outbreaks,

is available at cdc.gov/outbreaks.

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We've got an exciting lineup of speakers and topics.

I'll now turn the call back over to Laura.

>> Thank you.

Today's presentations will address one or more

of the following objectives, describe two key points

from each presentation, describe how a multisectoral One Health

approach can be applied to the presentation topics,

identify an implication for animal and human health,

identify One Health approach strategy for prevention,

detection, or response to public health threats,

and identify two new resources from CDC partners.

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You'll find resources and links for all presentations

on our website and in today's ZOHU Call email.

Our first presentation,

One Health in Veterinary Education Advancing Career

Opportunities that Address Societal Needs will be given

by Dr. Michael Lairmore.

Please begin when you're ready.

>> Thank you, and I'd like to thank all of those

at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases

and One Health Office for this opportunity

to present One Health in educational opportunities.

I would like to begin by emphasizing the concept

of One Health as an approach which intersects animals,

people, and the environment, and this approach requires.

This approach requires the interaction across disciplines,

ranging from veterinary medicine, public health

to engineering and ecology and a cooperative spirit and knowledge

and skills to appreciate how multiple disciplines view a

societal issue.

Viewed from the perspective of the AVMA and AVMC Council

of Education which accredits veterinary colleges and schools

in the US, we can see elements of the One Health

within the curriculum standards, and these include an emphasis

on central biological principles,

understanding the natural history of disease

and principles of the relationship of animals

and the environment, including public health.

Studies such as the National Research Council's report

on the workforce needs

in veterinary medicine were published in 2013,

have identified the value of the One Health approach

to address complex global problems including

food security.

We also know from the NIH Physician-Scientists Workforce

Working Group report of 2014

that veterinary sciences are considered a unique workforce

in biomedical research

and in understanding the emerging epidemics,

but are a relatively small workforce in the overall field.

The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges

works to engage member institutions and faculty

in the One Health initiatives underway in federal

and international agencies, including the NIH,

World Health Organization, CDC, and others.

This includes sponsorship of the consortium of the university

as a global health, which has developed an interest group