Fall 2020
The theme of this issue is COVID-19. All of the articles below display exciting applications of the One Health concept. This issue of the One Health Newsletter was written by professionals, post doctoral associates, and graduate/veterinary students with the assistance of our faculty editorial board and guest contributors.
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Micro-Editorial
By Paige Adams, Helena Chapman, Ellyn Mulcahy and Jean Paul Gonzalez
Learning from the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is essential, to anticipate and prevent future outbreaks.
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By Guy Bonnin and Jean-Paul Gonzalez
We will discuss various aspects of the pandemic and the economy with focus on the situation in France.
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By Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Bien-Aime Mandja, Megan Eppler and Marc Souris
A review the history of pandemics, their impact on medicine and public and veterinary health as well as on societies and politics when appropriate.
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by Dorian Janney
Did you know that Earth observing satellites (EOS) are being used to help reduce the threat of vector-borne and water-related diseases globally and to contribute to our understanding of the links between humans, animals, and the environment?
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By Valerie Jojola-Mount
An attempt to answer some of the questions budding students of public health may be asked by family, friends, and neighbors.
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by Justin Kastner, Megan Eppler, Valerie Jojola-Mount, Ellyn Mulcahy, Phutsadee Sanwisate and Kate Schoenberg
While we need to be wary of the transmission of the novel coronavirus in our communities, perhaps we ought to be equally concerned about the transmission of information about it.
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By Marc Souris and Jean-Paul Gonzalez
Faced with the 2019 pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there are some burning questions to address about this extraordinary, ongoing phenomenon.
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By Massamba Sylla
Several factors might be in favor of a lower incidence observed in Africa compared to the rest of the globe, including, among others: the potential of pre-existing natural and cross immunity, younger average age of at-risk population, and mass campaigns of chloroquine and ivermectin..
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Winter 2020 One Health Newsletter - Call for Articles
The theme for the Winter Issue is One Health Research. We are calling all One Health professional and student advocates to submit article ideas to one of the editorial board members. The expected distribution for the next newsletter will be in December 2020.
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Faculty Editorial Board
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 Paige Adams
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
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 Jean-Paul J. Gonzalez
School of Medicine
Georgetown University
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 Ellyn Mulcahy
Director
Master of Public Health
Kansas State University
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 Helena Chapman
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
NASA Applied Sciences Program
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Student Editors
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Valerie Jojola Mount A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses, with aspirations to further concentrate in epidemiology. She obtained a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Biological Anthropology. Of particular interest for her is how the social determinants of health impact patterns of behavior like breastfeeding, particularly in American Indian populations.
Megan Eppler A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses and she hopes to pursue the field of parasitology. She has a passion for aiding populations with limited medical care where parasites are prevalent. The near-eradication of Dracunculus medinensis by the Carter Center inspired her to care for overlooked medical problems, such as entire villages falling blind from Onchocerca volvulus. Megan graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an English minor from Kansas State University.
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Authors
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Micro-Editorial: One Health Communication and Education
Editorial Board
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The Two Sides of COVID-19: Pandemic and Economy, a French Connection
Jean Paul Gonzalez - author info Adj. Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Division of Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. School of Medicine, Georgetown University.
Guy Bonnin - author info Guy Bonnin graduated from the College of Law, Political Science, Economics & Management of Bordeaux University (France), and retired from his duty as a Treasury Inspector of the French government. He exercises his responsibility as Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance in the French metropolitan department (Corrèze, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and Gironde). He also exercises his skills in the French overseas departments of Martinique and Mayotte as executive manager. He devoted part of his carrier to the international cooperation as a senior advisor to the local governments (Tchad, Senegal, Guinee-Bissao), and advisor to the French diplomatic post in Angola under the French Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs.
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Pandemic: Learning From the Past, Be Prepared For the Future
Jean Paul Gonzalez - author info Adj. Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Division of Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. School of Medicine, Georgetown University.
Bien-Aime Mandja Makasa - Bien-Aimé Mandja Makasa graduated from the State Medical School of Donetsk University, Ukraine, in 1996. He worked as doctor from 1998 to 2005 in public hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2006, he completed a specialization of Public Health in the University of Kinshasa. He received his Ph.D. in Public Health in 2019 in supervision of the Kinshasa and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Universities. His main fields of research are infectious diseases, vaccinology, and maternal and child health. Currently, he is an assistant professor of the University of Kinshasa. He has published nearly 10 scientific papers, book chapters, and books.
Mark Souris - Dr. Marc Souris (PhD, HDR, Mathematics and Computer Science) is Director of Research at the French Research Institute for Development (IRD). His work mainly focuses on information sciences applied to geography and disease epidemiology (i.e., development of methodology for geographic information systems, spatial analysis, statistics, modelling), with applications in eco-epidemiology, health and environment, and risk analysis and natural disaster prevention. He is authoring the SavGIS (www.savgis.org), an integrative GIS package. He is teaching at Paris-Ouest University (France), Rennes 2 University (France), and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Thailand).
Megan Eppler - A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses and she hopes to pursue the field of parasitology. She has a passion for aiding populations with limited medical care where parasites are prevalent. The near-eradication of Dracunculus medinensis by the Carter Center inspired her to care for overlooked medical problems, such as entire villages falling blind from Onchocerca volvulus. Megan graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an English minor from Kansas State University.
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Using NASA’s Earth Observations to Predict, Monitor, and Respond to Vector-borne and Water-related Disease
Dorian Janney Dorian has a passion for sharing the wonders of NASA's science and exploration with others across all age levels! For over three decades, she taught public school in both special and general education settings across all grade levels. She was an Einstein Fellow Finalist and achieved National Board Certification in Science Education, served on numerous education working groups, and wrote science curriculum for the country. Currently, she serves as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM's) Outreach Coordinator, where she develops resources to help share the science, technology, and real-world applications of GPM with others. She also is the Campaign Coordinator for the GLOBE "Mission Mosquito" campaign as well as a Master GLOBE trainer and a member of the GLOBE Education Working Group.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Pandemic
Valerie Jojola Mount - A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses, with aspirations to further concentrate in epidemiology. She obtained a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Biological Anthropology. Of particular interest for her is how the social determinants of health impact patterns of behavior like breastfeeding, particularly in American Indian populations.
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Fighting the Spread of Disease With…Words?
Justin Kastner - author info Dr. Kastner conducts scholarly activities in several domains: the global food system and international trade policy, economic history and the history of science, the history of public health, globalization and cross-border cooperation, multidisciplinary thinking and writing, and the theory and practice of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Megan Eppler - A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses and she hopes to pursue the field of parasitology. She has a passion for aiding populations with limited medical care where parasites are prevalent. The near-eradication of Dracunculus medinensis by the Carter Center inspired her to care for overlooked medical problems, such as entire villages falling blind from Onchocerca volvulus. Megan graduated with a B.S. in Biology and an English minor from Kansas State University.
Valerie Jojola Mount - A graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at Kansas State University. Her general focus is in infectious disease and zoonoses, with aspirations to further concentrate in epidemiology. She obtained a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Biological Anthropology. Of particular interest for her is how the social determinants of health impact patterns of behavior like breastfeeding, particularly in American Indian populations.
Ellyn Mulcahy - author info Director, Master in Public Health (MPH) program, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University.
Phutsadee Sanwisate - Veterinary officer, Bureau of Livestock Standards and Certification, Department of Livestock Development, Government of Thailand; Also presently, MPH student, Kansas State University.
Kate Schoenberg - Undergraduate research assistant, Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University
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COVID-19 Pandemic, Present and Future: What Strategies Should We Take?
Marc Souris - Dr. Marc Souris (PhD, HDR, Mathematics and Computer Science) is Director of Research at the French Research Institute for Development (IRD). His work mainly focuses on information sciences applied to geography and disease epidemiology (i.e., development of methodology for geographic information systems, spatial analysis, statistics, modelling), with applications in eco-epidemiology, health and environment, and risk analysis and natural disaster prevention. He is authoring the SavGIS (www.savgis.org), an integrative GIS package. He is teaching at Paris-Ouest University (France), Rennes 2 University (France), and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT, Thailand).
Jean Paul Gonzalez - author info Adj. Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Division of Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. School of Medicine, Georgetown University.
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Covid-19 A Typical Emerging Disease: Lessons From Senegal
Massamba Sylla - Massamba Sylla earned a Master of science, and both a Ph.D. in Acarology (Ticks/Virology) and Medical Entomology (Dengue virus vectors) from the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. He exercised his research as Medical entomologist for the French Research Institute for Development, and fellow at Colorado State University (Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology). His studies use climatic change effects on vector (mosquito, ticks) and hosts (birds, chiropteran, primates, rodents) of infectious emerging vector-borne diseases, integrating spatial sciences applied to health and anthropology. He is a world-renowned expert on Aedes aegypti and demonstrated the specificity of Sahelian Aedes populations. As Head of Vector Control within Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action, he developed a recognized new strategy for malaria control (i.e. Mass Drug Administration of Ivermectin in Southeastern Senegal).
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