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SEAOHUN, led by Dr. Vipat Kuruchittham (Executive Director), met and discussed on Regional One Health Collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Vietnam One Health University Network (Vohun Nco) and SEAOHUN 2018 International Conference team at Hanoi Medical University, 22-23 August 2018.

Congratulations once again and welcome 12 multidisciplinary fellows (2nd batch) to the SEAOHUN Fellowship 2018! Bringing together the current fellows, former fellows and One Health experts, the Fellowship Orientation was conducted on 17 Aug 2018, Bangkok, Thailand, to share on One Health knowledge and fellowship experience. We would like to thank you very much for all honored guest speakers/ technical adviser, former fellows and current fellows with special Thanks to CU VET AMR, lead by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rungtip Chuanchuen, for hosting the visit at CU VET AMR, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. All the best for the success of the Fellowship this year! #OneHealthWorkforce #SEAOHUN #SEAOHUNFellowship2018

INDOHUN, as an organization specializing in capacity building for health resources, has been committing to contribute in strengthening the capacity to collaborate and coordinate in term of global health issues in Asia. It aims to introduce the concept of One Health, recognizing that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment, to solve global health problems which combines public health, veterinary health, and environmental health. To achieve the goal of that approach, it needs a strong connection between each sectors and disciplines to collaborate. The background for this action was started when the global communities faced many scary infectious diseases in a large scale. Last of 2014, there was transmission of Ebola virus from animal to human. Furthermore, this phenomenon happened and spread quickly from human to human in Central and West Africa. Those cases showed that diseases are happened without giving alarm to infect some country and entering other countries easily. Therefore, recognition of one country to others is very important to stop the disease. This recognition is called collaboration and coordination among health workforces and health-related sector. In line with that background, INDOHUN has been conducting leadership training since 2014 to prevent those phenomena happened in the future, Global Health True Leaders 2.0 (GHTL 2.0). This year, the training was conducted on July 16- 23 July, 2018, in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This training was conducted for eight days with composition of 4 days for leadership and collaboration class, 2 days for local empowerment, a day for cultural trip, and a day for team building activity. The purpose of in-class training is to facilitate the participants to build an awareness of global health condition and the problem that humanity might face. It showed a big picture of world health condition and where they can contribute for it. In line with that reason, participants learned several topics related to global health issues such as antimicrobial resistance issue, wildlife issue, and One Health. Those topics were given by Christopher A. Whitter (Director of Conservation Medicine Program & Research Assistant Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University), Benyamin Sihombing (World Health Organization, Representative to Indonesia), and Benjamin. D. Anderson (One Health Commission representative and Head of One Health team from Duke Kunshan University). Then, they also learned about tool that can help them to make a health program. This topic was given by Jeffry Mariner (Research Professor, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University. Furthermore, as the next generation of health and health-related workforces, growing awareness can lead them to identify the value of themselves as a leader that will lead the future and make a change that you want to see in the future. By doing this, it will reflect the value of their life that will be used to take an action for it. This leadership value can bring them to be a leader that can lead each other with different background but has one vision. This topic was led by Prof. drh. Wiku Adisasmito., M.Sc., PhD (INDOHUN coordinator and adjunct professor in Tufts University). In addition, to equip participants with comprehensive knowledge, they had been given others topics that were necessary such as social initiative that was given by Samantha Barbara Islan, (Chairman of board Love Pink) and Kemal Soeriawidjaja (Partnership ID). In addition, not only does the understanding of global health condition play an important role, but the sensitivity of culture, disciplinary, and knowledge of technical skill are necessary to be understood as the health leaders. In line with those values, the participants had lived with local community to enhance their knowledge of culture, health, and tolerance for 2 days and 2 nights. They lived in Penujak Village, Lombok Tengah. This village is known the oldest pottery producing village in Lombok. In that village, they had to educate people based on their problems then, they had to identify the problem first while they were doing the live-in. So, we can decide the targets of the intervention. They also learned how culture can have reciprocal relation to health. Therefore, they can develop effective strategy to improve local community health. Moreover, in order to do that, the participants had to collaborate with other disciplines since they came from different discipline. This action leads them to be more open-minded and build a strong connection to others. Beyond all of those things above, strong determination and discipline are the key to shape the best human resources. Therefore, this training collaborated with West Nusa Tenggara police. They had to join morning exercise every morning to develop and build healthy lifestyle especially for future leaders who need to respond with tight schedules and close deadlines. Then, they had to join a leadership field activity which was outbound. This activity was designed to build a strong knot between each other. Then, having that knot can help them to collaborate easily in the future. To recapitulate, this training is dedicated to accelerate the implementation of disease prevention in Asia region.

Do you know an important global health story that’s been overlooked by the media and deserves special notice? NPR’s "Goats and Soda" blog, which covers global health and development, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and Global Health NOW from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are pleased to announce the 2019 Untold Stories of Global Health Contest. The contest is designed to give a platform to important but underreported global health stories. CUGH, NPR’s Goats and Soda Blog, and GHN share the goal of raising awareness about health issues around the world. We invite you to nominate an issue you feel deserves urgent attention, whether you’ve worked on it firsthand or come across it in your travels. The best nominations for the Untold Stories focus on a specific issue in a specific location (i.e., not global chronic disease) and should include available data and evidence, as well as contact information. Important Dates Submissions Open – August 15, 2018 Nominations Deadline – September 30, 2018 Judging Complete – October 30, 2018 Winners Notified – November 15, 2018 https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2018-08/enter-untold-global-health-stories-contest-2019

Using a combination of facilitated discussions and comprehensive evaluation methods, this workshop focused on two activities: 1. On pilot testing the new Biorisk Management curricula that Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN): Nong Lam University - HCMC (NLU), Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH) and Hanoi National University (VNU) have developed, to identify which sections of the new curriculum work and which ones need strengthening. The evaluation of the pilot session of the curriculum will include written evaluations with scoring and verbal feedback from three key groups to assess the teaching sessions from different perspectives: the participants (graduate students), the facilitators (university professors) and the observers (SNL, DTRA) 2. One-day Biorisk Awareness Raising for University Deans from VOHUN network who are responsible for providing primary guidance and leadership to divisional departments concerning curriculum development, program evaluation and compliance with educational requirements

The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health published the latest volume of supplement. This volume features the One Health implementation such as education, training, and research in Thailand which supported by THOHUN. Get the printed copy by contacting contact.thohun@gmail.com Online version available soon!

Efforts to improve knowledge about how to deal with zoonosis threat more quickly, intensify further to students during One Health Young Leaders and Communicators that was held from 16th to 19th July 2018 in Eagle Ranch Resort, Port Dickson. A total of 49 students from six local universities including four students from three Cambodian universities have the opportunity to participate in the five-day activity. The program gathers students from a variety of different fields including Medical and Health Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Science, Social Work, Animal Sciences, Agriculture, and Psychology Project Leader, Dr. Mohd Faizal Ghazali, said the objective of the activity was to introduce students to the concept of ‘One Health’ and to provide knowledge on the competencies required in the ‘One Health’ practice. He said the concept requires an individual to work in a group in dealing with various issues. Zoonotic disease issues are complex and more effectively addressed using the ‘One Health’ concept among various agencies and institutions and thus strengthening communication, collaboration and networking with each other. Present during the activity was Professor Dr. Stanley Gordon Fenwick from Tuft University, the United States to help facilitate the activity.

One Health Field Training for Emerging Zoonoses was held in Tenera Hotel, Bandar Baru Bangi, and Lipis Plaza Hotel, Kuala Lipis from 2nd until 5th July 2018. Seventy officers, academicians, and postgraduate students from UKM, UNIMAS, UPM, and UITM with various background participated in this activity along with the active contribution of experts from the universities, Ministry of Health and Department of Veterinary Services. This activity trained participants on outbreak simulation in a classroom setting. The students were divided into five groups which represent the settings in the scenario, for example, district hospital, health clinic, DVS office, State Health Office and others. Two cases were discussed during the 2-day workshop in Tenera Hotel, Bangi. In Kuala Lipis, during the visit in Felda Kechau, demonstration of indoor residue spray and treated bed net as preventive action from malaria were delivered by officers from the District Health Office while visiting Felda Kechau. The activity will be continued with Table Top Simulation Exercise in August.

ISID and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI) jointly sponsor the SSI/ISID Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program to support infectious disease physicians and scientists from under-resourced countries through multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory training at select biomedical institutions in Switzerland. The objectives of the Fellowship Program are: To train promising young physicians and scientists from under-resourced countries for clinical and research positions in infectious diseases. To foster partnerships between fellows and infectious disease leaders in Switzerland. To increase scientific research capacity in under-resourced/high disease burden countries. Opportunities for training and research in a variety of areas ranging from basic studies of the mechanism of disease to studies in public health, epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics or vaccine development, are available through this program. For more information : https://www.isid.org/research/ssi-isid-fellowships/

On 29 March 2019, Prekleap National College of Agriculture (PNCA) hosted the first meeting among the three Cambodian universities agreeing to form a One Health university network - PNCA, Royal University of Agriculture, and University of Health Sciences. The meeting was attended by Rectors/Director of the three institutions and their team members. The meeting agreed on CAMBOHUN as the official acronym of the network, and on who will serve as Chairperson and Vice Chair of the network, and focal person of each institution. The meeting also preliminary discussed its governance and operating structure of CAMBOHUN.

SEAOHUN in collaboration with the One Health Workforce (OHW), Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Environment under the support of the USAID and KOICA organized the Cambodia One Health Workforce Planning workshop on 26 - 28 March 2019 at the Sokha Hotel and Residence, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Twenty-seven health professionals from the three ministries, higher education institutions, and development partners participated in the three-day workshop to jointly develop recommendations to improve multi-agency, cross-sectoral collaboration during AI and rabies outbreaks at the national level with an emphasis on workforce needs.

To address public health issues and to deepen your participation in ongoing conversations about key issues in global health. With a one-year investment, not only will you acquire a Master of Public Health degree from Hanoi Medical University, but you will also develop knowledge and skills in a rich multicultural environment. The Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (lPMPH) - Hanoi Medical university is pleased to invite qualified and interested candidates to apply for full-time International Master of Public Health program for the 2019/2020 academic year, commencing September 2019. one health education. For more information please contact: Coordination Office for the lnternational Master of public Health programme lnstitute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health - Hanoi Medical University Address : 01 Ton That Tung, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam Phone : +842438525'112 Email (main) :sdhyhdp@hmu.edu.vn Email (cc to) : phuonglh@hmu.edu.vn