Tagged: Global One Health

Wondwossen Gebreyes, executive director of the Global One Health Initiative (GOHI), visited Kenya from May 1-5 to accomplish the following:  

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) provided advanced monitoring and evaluation training to Public Health Emergency (PHEM) officers, monitoring and evaluation officers and surveillance officers from national and regional public health institutions and regional health bureaus June 14-16 in Addis Ababa.   

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) is the recipient of a Certificate of Recognition from the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) for its work in strengthening laboratory capacity in Ethiopia. The federal ministry and EPHI recognized various institutes for their exceptional contributions during the 8th Annual National Health Laboratory Forum held July 4-5 in Addis Ababa.. 

The Ohio State University has been named one of the world’s top universities, according to the 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings released today. Ohio State is ranked 151st in the world and 35th in the United States.

The Office of International Affairs is seeking applications for its Faculty Research, Teaching and Outreach Grant. The grant supports faculty working on projects that align with the mission and current engagement initiatives of the university’s five Area Studies Centers and their respective regions of the world. Proposed activities should be directly connected to Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East or Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

In collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) conducted a protocol preparation workshop for Simulation Exercise (SimEx) – a tool to monitor and evaluate countries' International Health Regulations capacities – to 15 participants in April.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) collaborated with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) to train 26 health professionals from severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)/influenza-like illness (ILI) sites and influenza testing laboratories on specimen management, biosafety and biosecurity for three days.

The training aimed to improve specimen collection, storage and packaging and the referral system for testing respiratory infections, including influenza, COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytia Viruses (RSV).

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided training for seven microbiologists at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) National Reference Laboratory. Emily Schmitt-Matzen and Natashia Reese from the CDC led the class.

The training aimed to help the EPHI laboratory team conduct confirmatory tests on presumed Carbapenemase Producing Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CP-CRE) submitted from hospitals.

Andréia Arruda is an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine at The Ohio State University. Originally from Brazil, she graduated from São Paulo State University in 2010 with her DVM. While working on her DVM, she was part of an international exchange program where she worked for one year on a 1,200-sow farrow-to-wean farm in a small town in northern Minnesota.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, provided a two-day clinical specimen training in April to healthcare workers from Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH) and Zewditu Memorial Hospital (ZMH). The GOHi Eastern Africa office led presentations, practical demonstrations and discussions for 53 healthcare workers from TASH and 25 healthcare workers from ZMH.