Tagged: Global One Health

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), facilitated a “Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Mapping (VRAM) and Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP)” workshop in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, June 13-19. VRAM is a systematic approach to prioritize common hazards, define levels of vulnerability and capacity to help develop effective and efficient risk reduction and mitigation interventions.

Three visiting scholars participated in the Global One Health Summer Institute’s inaugural  Experiential Resource Learning and Bioinformatics training program held June 5 to June 30. This closed session was exclusively designed to strengthen the research capacities of Eastern African partner institutions.

Participants included:

Representatives of the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) met with key leaders of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) to discuss ongoing collaborations. Wondwossen Gebreyes, GOHi executive director, Robert Onsare, GOHi Kenya liaison director, and Feven Tigistu-Sahle, GOHi Eastern Africa-Omics program leader, traveled to Nairobi and Kisumu to meet with Simon Kariuki, KEMRI chief research officer. They visited TB, Malaria, HIV and neglected tropical disease laboratories and one of the clinical trial sites at Siaya County Referral Hospital.  

Over the past two years the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) has been implementing the CARES project with the aim to strengthen the national public health surveillance, laboratory systems and to build human capital development in Ethiopia.  

GOHi already has established four additional molecular laboratories in four regions in Ethiopia, deployed more than 65 surveillance experts all over the country to enhance the disease surveillance capacity and response as well as becoming highly involved in human capital development. 

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.