The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)’s annual conference is a must attend event on the global health calendar. This year, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic it will be virtual. Over 1800 scientists, students and implementers from academia, NGOs, government and the private sector will present, learn and collaborate to address some of the pressing challenges our world faces. A wide range of medical and non-medical disciplines are represented throughout the pre-conference satellites (register online & most are free to attend) and the March 12-14th conference. Attendees will be inspired and challenged and learn new skills, gain new contacts and find ways we can improve the health of people and the planet. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CUGH2021 will be a virtual conference this year and OHW-NG project will be at the breakout panel session on 14 March 2021, discuss in topics : "Symposium Session on One Health Competencies" and "One Health Drives Training Innovations when Challenged by the COVID-19 Pandemic to Ensure a Prepared Global Workforce" Interested to join the virtual conference to listen to our talk please visit : https://www.cugh2021.org/

FREE course! from World Health Organization (WHO) Learn Strengthening collaboration between human and animal health sectors for improved health security. The course is free!. Just register for an account on #OpenWHO and take the course here: 👇https://openwho.org/courses/human-animal-health-sectors As a majority of emerging diseases are shared by humans and animals, adopting a One Health approach is essential. This course provides insight into some of WHO’s work at the animal-human-environment interface, including National Bridging Workshops (NBWs), field simulation exercises, tripartite guidance, and practical tools aimed to support countries in the operationalization of One Health mechanisms at their level. Outcomes and results of these activities are presented, discussed, and highlighted through country experience examples.

MSD Animal Health and WVA are delighted to announce the 5th Veterinary Student Scholarship Program to enhance the academic experience of veterinary students from countries in the regions of Latin America, Africa, North Africa/Middle East and Asia/Oceania (the regions of North America and Europe are under the scholarship programs of AVMF and FVE). Following the successful delivery of the 2016-2020 scholarship programs, MSD Animal Health and WVA have agreed to continue the successful collaboration and to launch the 2021 Veterinary Student Scholarship Program to include 80 scholarships of US$ 2,500. Please find attached the 2021 program announcement https://www.worldvet.org/uploads/news/docs/msd_wva_scholarship_-_announcement_2021_-english.pdf The announcement includes links to the application form and other useful documents.

With the support of USAID, FAO in the Philippines, Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), and Dr. Carolyn Benigno, SEAOHUN Executive Director met with five universities in the Philippines on 15 May 2019 in Manila to introduce SEAOHUN and discuss how the Philippines might set up One Health university network to join SEAOHUN in the future. The meeting ended positively with the five universities - Benguet State University, Central Luzon State University, University of the Philippines, Visayas State University, and Central Mindanao University - agreeing to form a core group to discuss further collaboration among themselves and with SEAOHUN.

Ahead of the 11th edition of the Advanced Course on Diagnostics (ACDx) to be held this year from September 12-17, 2021, a 3-day virtual event will be organized: Advanced Course on Diagnostics (ACDx) Special Edition on COVID-19 on March 15-17, 2021 - 6.00 pm (Bangkok) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of a fair access to efficient diagnostic tests to rapidly detect positive cases and optimize prevention and treatment. International health experts will discuss screening strategies put in place in different regions of the world and share the key considerations for building country capacity and preparedness for a rapid and effective test implementation, in both high and low/middle income countries. They will also address the central position of diagnostic testing in the context of vaccines introduction and the new variants circulation. International, regional, and local collaborations are key to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator will be used as an example to illustrate the need for a multilateral cooperation to keep everyone safe around the world. Participation to the conference is free so if you are interested, please register below on the Zoom platform: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E1KAkdCaSeG-dPmZxpRKFg

The CREID Network Pilot Research Program supports, trains, and mentors the next generation of emerging infectious disease researchers. This program will help develop capacity for emerging infectious disease research around the world through the performance of scientific research projects. Scientific research project topics could include but are not limited to studies on pathogen transmission, emergence, or maintenance in an ecosystem, pathogenesis, characterization of viral antigens, phylogenetics, viral diversity, sociological or behavioral influences on emerging or re-emerging viral diseases, development of reagents and diagnostic assays to improve detection of emerging pathogens, as well as studies aimed at detailing human immune responses to new or emerging infectious agents. Preliminary data is not required. Additional examples of types of research this program would consider include: Retrospective epidemiological study using already captured clinical data (secondary human subjects’ research) or other experimental data. Behavioral/social science studies on unique aspects of a particular clinical cohort, but not a clinical trial, and that is nested within a parent study. Characterizing pathogens or pathogen diversity from previously collected animal or vector specimens. Lab-based study answering a finite and well-defined hypothesis. Find out more information at https://creid-network.org/pilot-program Email: info@creid-network.org

Calling young leaders to join us in a place to share knowledge & commitment, crowdfunding, and gather many sectors in Indonesia not only practitioners and health experts but also policy makers, economic actors, politicians, law and other sectors related. An event that highlights the game-changers and influential people that have collaborated through innovation, in fields such as health, humanity, and ecosystem. NusaBersama’s mission is to educate the society about the urgent problems of Citarum River and inspire them to take action. As well as providing platform and exposure towards the people who are doing the real work. This is exactly why One Summit is here. One Summit is an information dissemination forum on current issues, namely the Citarum River, which is targeted at the general public which consists of several series of events. This activity is expected to increase public awareness and solutions for the Citarum River pollution. THIS YEAR'S THEME "Sustainable Efforts and Collaboration in Restoring Citarum River" "NusaBersama: Citarum" 8 September 2018 Multi-Purpose Hall, CRCS Building Institut Teknologi Bandung Participants Benefits: Certificate + Merchandise For more info, click @nusabersama on IG. If you want to join, feel free to register here! http://indohun.org/nusabersama/onesummit

28 PhD Positions/ Scholarships within the Doctoral Programme, TALENT at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen (start date 1 Jan 2019). Deadline: 1 October 2018 The 28 PhD fellowships are in the following fields: Biodiversity; biological sciences and bioinformatics; chemical sciences; computer sciences; earth and planetary systems sciences; environment, climate and sustainability; food sciences; health and genomics; mathematical sciences, statistics & economics; nano and materials sciences; natural science education; nutrition and sports; particle physics, astro physics and cosmology; plant sciences and biotechnology; quantum sciences and technology; resource economics and global development. The programme is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801199. More info, please visit: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx…

The 2nd Joint Call for Proposals in the thematic areas Bioeconomy and Infectious Diseases under the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation has now been launched. The deadline for the submission of Proposals is 18 September 2018, 12:00 (noon) CET/ 17:00 Jakarta time. More detail, please visit: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/…/southeast-asia-%E2%80%93-eu… Official call: https://www.sea-eu-jfs.eu/calls

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.