A National One Health Symposium is being organised by the Public Health Foundation of India and Massey University, to be held on 26 November, 2013 in New Dehli. The symposium will review recent significant zoonotic disease events in India and discuss experiences, evaluations and a framework for collaboration with regard to zoonoses.
Discussion will also focus upon the existing efforts for One Health approaches in One Health in India and the outcomes of the One Health Regional Training Program in the context of One Health capacity building initiatives and activities to stimulate cross-sectoral collaboration and implementation of a One Health approach to zoonotic disease control.
Hubnet as an online network for collaboration and communication will be described and demonstrated with regards to how it can support the capacity building initiatives and a One Health approach in India.
Symposium details
| City: | New Dehli |
| Location: | Royal Plaza Hotel |
| Date: | 26th November |
Draft Programme
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Start time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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Session 1: Chair: Dr JP Narain, CDC India + Prof. Ramanan Laxmi Narayan, Vice President, PHFI |
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0900 – 0945 |
One Health approaches: Genesis, implementation and best practices |
Dr Ken Earhart, CDC (TBC) |
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0945 – 1030 |
One-health activities for building institutional capability across SAR through the World Bank/Massey University managed project (2010-2013) |
Dr Eric Neumann, Massey |
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1030 – 1100 |
Morning tea |
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Session 2: Chair: Dr Gaya Prasad, ICAR / Dr Jagvir Singh, IDSP |
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1100 – 1140 |
Significant zoonotic disease in India: Recent events, Experiences, Lessons learnt & Framework for collaboration |
Dr Veena Mittal, NCDC (TBC) |
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1140 – 1220 |
Significant zoonotic disease in India: Recent events, Experiences, Lessons learnt & Framework for collaboration |
AH (TBD) |
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1220 – 1300 |
One-health capacity building in India: Experience sharing by select members of MVH/MPH community in India |
MVH/MPH community in India (TBC) |
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1300 – 1400 |
Lunch |
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Session 3: Chairs: Dr Ravindran, Director (EMR) & Dr Rajendra Bambal, DADF |
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1400 – 1430 |
Hubnet as an online network, communication and collaboration tool for the SAR One Health Network |
Dr Eric Neumann, Massey |
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1430 – 1500 |
Progress towards implementation or adoption of an appropriate agency or organisational structure functioning as a ‘One Health Hub’ in India. |
Dr Eric Neumann, Massey |
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1500 – 1530 |
Demonstration of Hubnet |
Dr Eric Neumann, Massey |
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1530 – 1600 |
Panel discussion, Q&A. May be useful to appoint someone as a scribe. |
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1600 – 1605 |
Vote of Thanks and Dispersal |
All |
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1615 – 1700 |
Drafting committee to meet and summarize issues and resolutions to bring forward to SAR Regional One Health Symposium. These may likely be informed from all three days of the joint meetings, not just from today. |
Members: Dr P Ravindran, Dr Eric Neumann, Dr R Bambal, Dr HR Khanna, Dr Arvind Nath, Dr Shashi Khare, Dr Manish Kakkar |