Tagged: Global One Health

During a recent visit to Kenya, Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Executive Director Wondwossen Gebreyes attended strategic meetings with leaders of key partners.

Feven Tigistu-Sahle is a research scientist at the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Eastern Africa office and a visiting researcher at the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Program of the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sally A. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences in Plant Pathology at The Ohio State University in Wooster, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Ohio State and her master’s and doctorate degrees in plant pathology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert Baiocchi, MD, PhD, professor in the Division of Hematology at Ohio State, Executive Committee member of the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) and member of the Leukemia Research Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – The James, will receive the

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) collaborated with the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA) to undertake a causality assessment of adverse events following immunizations (AEFI) that were reported to the national pharmacovigilance unit at EFDA.

Members of the national pharmacovigilance advisory committee and pharmacovigilance experts and advisors from EFDA conducted the assessment. The team reviewed 11 cases of AEFIs following COVID-19 vaccines and the Novel Oral Polio Type 2 (NOPV2) vaccine for causality assessment and causal association determined.

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) recently recognized the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) for its outstanding contributions towards strengthening Ethiopia's national Public Health Emergency Management and laboratory system.

In a recent workshop, the EPHI reviewed the national COVID-19 response and discussed integrating COVID-19 response functions into the existing routine health system programs with national and regional stakeholders.

Sharon Santoso Clark is an internal medicine-pediatrics physician in the Division of Hospital Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and the Section of Hospital Pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital and a clinical assistant professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) hosted an Ethiopian Higher Education Leaders delegation from November 13-19, 2022. The delegation comprised 25 leaders from 16 public universities in Ethiopia and two from the Ministry of Education. The experiential visit is part of the Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG) project implemented in Ethiopia by three U.S. universities: Texas Tech University, Oklahoma State University and The Ohio State University, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, Addis Ababa and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Education.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) provided on-site hand hygiene and environmental cleaning training to healthcare workers from Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital and Zewditu Memorial Hospital through an antimicrobial resistance project funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in October 2022.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Eastern Africa Office, in collaboration with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been working to implement the Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) project. This project aims to strengthen antimicrobial resistance detection and response capacities in Zewditu Memorial Hospital and Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.