On March 26, the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) delivered laboratory equipment and materials to five hospital-based laboratories damaged during the recent conflict in Ethiopia, such as:
Tagged: Global One Health
How agriculture sector is transitioning to One Health approach
By Joyce Turk and Dan Gustafson, GOHi External Advisory Board members
Faculty spotlight: Ahmed Yousef
Food microbiology, food safety, food decontamination – the list goes on. When it comes to food science, Ahmed Yousef, a distinguished professor in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), is truly an expert.
GOHi kicks off AMR project
The Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) held a kick-off meeting for the new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project on February 22, 2022, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. High-level leaders from the Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopian Food and Drug Administration, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital and Zewditu Memorial Hospital and other stakeholders attended, as well as representatives from the World Health Organization and the CDC's Atlanta and Ethiopia offices.
Costing of the Ethiopia VPD Surveillance System
The Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) hosted a kickoff meeting on February 16, 2022, to start a U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-funded project on the costing of the Ethiopia Vaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) Surveillance System to strengthen Ethiopia’s core International Health Regulation capabilities. In partnership with the Ethiopian government and other in-country partners, this project aims to produce country-level estimates of the financial costs of the Ethiopian VPD Surveillance System.
Workshop to strengthen Ethiopia’s IHR capabilities
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a two-year, multi-partner program funded by the U.S. CDC to strengthen Ethiopia's core International Health Regulation capabilities. Since March 2021, Ohio State Global One Health, LLC, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and other in-country partners have been exerting a tremendous effort towards strengthening the influenza surveillance system through laboratory capacity building and workforce development.
GOHi hosts CARES Act annual review meeting
The Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) is an implementing partner for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a five-year multi-partner program funded by the U.S. CDC to strengthen Ethiopia’s core International Health Regulation capabilities. In partnership with the Ethiopian government and other in-country partners, there has been a tremendous effort to strengthen national Emergency Management, public health surveillance, laboratory capacity and workforce development since launching in March 2021.
GOHi facilitates specimen referral system training
Ohio State Global One Health, LLC, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), conducted a training workshop for Ethiopian Postal Service employees who transport influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) samples as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The two-day training workshop in Addis Ababa hosted 20 participants from nine regions. Of the 20 participants, 17 came from the Ethiopian Postal Service and three from the sample reception department at EPHI.