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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), One Health is an approach to design and implement programs, policies, legislations, and research in which multiple aspects of the interactions of humans, animals, food, and the environment are interconnected (https://www.who.int/features/qa/one-health/en/). A key element in approaching the challenges of One Health includes generating high resolution spatio-temporal data on pathogens together with genomic relatedness of pathogens [5]. In the near future national and international databases will allow tracking pathogen transmissions based on WGS data in and across complex settings such as humans, animals, food, water and other environmental sources [[6]]. This was followed by presentations focusing on Campylobacter spp. and Salmonella spp. - the two most common bacterial pathogens associated with gastrointestinal infections in Switzerland by Dr. Seth-Smith and Dr. Bloemberg. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a charter for physical activity that was presented at the "Third International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health" in Toronto, Ontario in May 2010. The charter, presented in several languages, encourages all countries, regions, and communities to make political and social commitments to enhance the physical activity of their residents. The guiding principles of the charter are introduced followed by a framework for action.

Information about the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health, held April 17-20, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia is presented. The congress was made relative to the tenth-year anniversary of the publication of the “US Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health.” A forum for exchanging information on current research and practice in the area of physical activity and public health was also made.

The recent conference Turning the Tide: A New Generation of Public Health Interventions highlighted the need to utilize innovative and emergent methodologies to confront increasingly complex public health challenges. In this commentary, we discuss three dominant themes from the conference: addressing multiple levels of causality in reducing health problems; technology-based methodologies to enhance health promotion; and improving translation and sustainment of effective health promotion programs. The subsequent articles, included in this supplement issue of AJPH , provide compelling examples and arguments supporting these progressive approaches to public health promotion. We recommend that public health researchers draw inspiration from these examples and embrace interdisciplinary, innovative methods within their future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the policy statement adopted by the General Assembly of the World Federation of Public Health Associations at the World Congress of Public Health in April 2017 concerning the immigration policies mandating migrants to provide proof of HIV-negative status inorder to obtain visas, work permits or legal residency. Topics discussed include the policy of the American Public Health Association and the importance of World Federation policy.

The article discusses the highlights of a panel discussion on the legal and ethical issues concerning Texas' Infection Disease Task Force, disease transmission, public health, health issues in regard to the threat of Zika virus, held at the Texas Tech University School of Law on April 22, 2016. The participants included Doctor Ron Cook, Doctor Steve Presley, and Dr. Cheryl Erwin.

The delivery of safe and effective radical cure for Plasmodium vivax is one of the greatest challenges for achieving malaria elimination from the Asia-Pacific by 2030. During the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Vivax Working Group in October 2016, a round table discussion was held to discuss the programmatic issues hindering the widespread use of primaquine (PQ) radical cure. Participants included 73 representatives from 16 partner countries and 33 institutional partners and other research institutes. In this meeting report, the key discussion points are presented and grouped into five themes: (i) current barriers for glucose-6-phosphate deficiency (G6PD) testing prior to PQ radical cure, (ii) necessary properties of G6PD tests for wide scale deployment, (iii) the promotion of G6PD testing, (iv) improving adherence to PQ regimens and (v) the challenges for future tafenoquine (TQ) roll out. Robust point of care (PoC) G6PD tests are needed, which are suitable and cost-effective for clinical settings with limited infrastructure. An affordable and competitive test price is needed, accompanied by sustainable funding for the product with appropriate training of healthcare staff, and robust quality control and assurance processes. In the absence of quantitative PoC G6PD tests, G6PD status can be gauged with qualitative diagnostics, however none of the available tests is currently sensitive enough to guide TQ treatment. TQ introduction will require overcoming additional challenges including the management of severely and intermediately G6PD deficient individuals. Robust strategies are needed to ensure that effective treatment practices can be deployed widely, and these should ensure that the caveats are outweighed by the benefits of radical cure for both the patients and the community. Widespread access to quality controlled G6PD testing will be critical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from an October 6-7, 2016 conference in Basel, Switzerland on the history of European public health policy and its response to drug abuse and AIDS since the 1960s. Topics of presentations delivered include organizations supporting diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of AIDS in Turkey, regional differences between East Germany and Turkey in the association of AIDS with homosexuality, and the 1995 crackdown on heroin users and dealers in Zürich, Switzerland.

Background: Health Services Academy held its 7th Annual Public Health Scientific Conference in December 2016 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The theme was Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Health: Collaborating for Prosperity. Over seven hundred international and national public health specialists attended to share research initiatives, build partnerships and strengthen networks. Post-conference online survey was emailed to all participants to facilitate a more structured feedback and hence evaluation of the two day event. Methods: An online instrument was developed using the "Survey Monkey" template. Total participants (n=757) were invited to complete the online survey which consisted of five sections: Likert scales were utilised to ascertain how "informative" the conference was to the participants. Comment boxes were provided for each section to collect qualitative responses. The quantitative data was collated by Survey Monkey and presented in percentages. Manual thematic analysis was utilised for the qualitative data. Results: The final online surveys emailed was seven hundred and four and of these just over two thirds (67%) were opened and 33% (n=230) were unopened. The latter emails may have been in the "spam" box or not opened. Of the opened surveys (n=474) nearly two hundred were completed and emailed back, a response rate of forty two percent (n=199). The quantitative data revealed that the majority of respondents (75%) found the plenary sessions to be'very informative 'and approximately half of the respondents considered the scientific sessions to be 'extremely informative' or 'very informative'. With respect to how useful the conference was to the participant's field of public health, almost half (44%) responded 'very useful and over a third (34%) responded 'extremely useful'. The top three themes recommended for the 2017 Conference included Nutrition; Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health and Sustainable Development Goals. Conclusion: The majority of survey respondents agreed that the conference was a success and the theme was useful in their own field of public health. Several themes for the 2017 conference were provided with a focus on nutrition the most popular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the civic health symposium held in 2016 in the U.S. sponsored by the Nonprofit Policy, Practice, and Partnership (NP3) Section of the American Society for Public Administration. It mentions role of Civic health in supporting the individual's material circumstances and physical environment. It also mentions individual's behaviors, biological factors, psychosocial factors and their access to health care identified as intermediary factors in the conceptual model.

Introduction: It is uncommon for medical students to deliver public health talks as part of their medical education curriculum. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a novel training programme that required medical students to deliver public health talks during their family medicine (FM) clerkship in a Singapore primary care institution.Methods: The FM faculty staff guided teams of third-year medical students to select appropriate topics for health talks that were to be conducted at designated polyclinics. The talks were video-recorded and appraised for clarity, content and delivery. The appraisal was done by the student's peers and assigned faculty staff. The audience was surveyed to determine their satisfaction level and understanding of the talks. The students also self-rated the effectiveness of this new teaching activity.Results: A total of 120 medical students completed a questionnaire to rate the effectiveness of the new teaching activity. 85.8% of the students felt confident about the delivery of their talks, 95.8% reported having learnt how to deliver talks and 92.5% perceived this new training modality as useful in their medical education. Based on the results of the audience survey, the speakers were perceived as knowledgeable (53.1%), confident (51.3%) and professional (39.0%). Assessment of 15 video-recorded talks showed satisfactory delivery of the talks by the students.Conclusion: The majority of the students reported a favourable overall learning experience under this new training programme. This finding is supported by the positive feedback garnered from the audience, peers of the medical students and the faculty staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents drug and alcohol addiction-related news briefs and information about events such as the 9th European Public Health Conference which will be held on November 9-12, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. Legislation to legalise cannabis for medical purposes in Germany is examined, along with the trafficking of synthetic drugs on the Vietnam-China border. Laws regulating the use of tax revenues to fund public health programmes in places such as Panama and Poland are assessed.

This is a study developed in the perspective of social history and has as its object the nursing in Psychiatry's propositions to the assistive system of alienated in the IV Latin American Medical Congress, in Brazil in 1909. With the following objectives: analyze the proposition of Juliano Moreira for assistive system of alienated released during the IV Latin American Medical Congress in 1909; and, discuss the symbolic effects of this proposition for nursing. From the analysis of his speech and with the search of the unfolding of the proposal, we infer that Juliano Moreira managed to exert an effect of theory, making it happen what announced at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the International Workshop "From Global Burden of Disease Studies to National Burden of Disease Surveillance" held in Berlin, Germany. December 1-2, 2015. The workshop aimed at enhancing the cooperation in public health research and exchange of information between researchers of the GBD study and public health and environmental health institutes in Germany. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) quantifies and compares health loss due to diseases and injuries.

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In case conferences, health care providers work together to identify and address patients' complex social and medical needs. Public health nurses from the local health department joined case conference teams at federally qualified health center primary care sites to foster cross-sector collaboration, integration, and mutual learning. Public health nurse participation resulted in frequent referrals to local health department services, greater awareness of public health capabilities, and potential policy interventions to address social determinants of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this commentary, we discuss a photography competition, launched during the summer of 2014, to explore the everyday stories of how gender plays out within health systems around the world. While no submission fees were charged nor financial awards involved, the winning entries were exhibited at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2014, with credits to the photographers involved. Anyone who had an experience of, or interest in, gender and health systems was invited to participate. Underlying the aims of the photo competition was a recognition of the importance of participation of community members, health workers and other non-academics in our research engagement and in venues where their perspectives are often missing. The competition elicited participation from a range of stakeholders engaged in health systems: professional photographers, project managers, donors, researchers, activists and community members. In total, 54 photos were submitted by 29 participants from 15 different nationalities and country locations. We unpack what the photos suggest about gender and health systems and the pivotal role of community-level systems that support health, including that of close-to-community health providers. Three themes emerged: women active on the frontlines of service delivery and as primary unpaid carers, the visibility of men in gender and health systems and the inter-sectoral nature and intra-household dynamics of community health that embed close-to-community health providers. The question of who has the right to take and display images, under what contexts and for what purpose also permeated the photo competition. We reflect on how photos can be valuable representations of the worlds that we, health workers and health systems are embedded in. Photographs broaden our horizons by capturing and connecting us to subjects from afar in seemingly unmediated ways but also reflect the politics, values and subjectivities of the photographer. They represent stereotypes, but also showcase alternate realities of people and health systems, and thereby can engender further reflection and change. We conclude with thoughts about the place of photography in health systems research and practice in highlighting and potentially transforming how we look at and address close-to-community providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the World Health Assembly forum hosted by the international public health group World Health Organization held in Geneva, Switzerland on health policy from May 18 to 26, 2015 is presented. Topics include antimicrobial resistance, epilepsy, and public health. The event was attended by a number of health ministers, chief medical officers and health professionals.

Information about several issues discussed at a conference held by the Poverty Eradication Foundation (YBK) of Malaysia, with its collaboration in Institute for Social Science Studies (IPSAS) of University Putra Malaysia (UPM), in partnership with the Asian Institute for Development Communication on May 12, 2015 is presented. Topics include development needs of nations, well-being measures, and its relevance to the economic, social, and environmental issues.

The article discusses the "Protein Summit 2.0: Evaluating the Role of Protein in Public Health" conference sponsored by The Beef Checkoff, Dairy Research Institute, Egg Nutrition Center, Global Dairy Platform, Hillshire Brands, and National Pork Board and held on October 2, 2013 in Washington, D.C. A list of the Summit's steering committee members, panelists, and authors is presented.

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Background: People who lead or manage public health agencies have multiple needs for information in order to do their jobs effectively. In seeking to investigate "what works" in public health practice, investigators in the field of public health systems and services research (PHSSR) have largely overlapping information needs but often require a greater detail, specificity, or comprehensiveness than is routinely available in public health data systems. PHSSR Data Needs Meeting: On April 24, 2014, the PHSSR Center of the University of Kentucky and AcademyHealth convened a 1-day meeting of public health practitioners and PHSSR investigators to identify PHSSR information needs. Meeting participants considered data needs for three PHSSR domains: the organization of public health agencies and services, the use of rapidly evolving health information technologies, and the financing and economic evaluation of public health activities. Future Data Needs: Identifying data needs in these and other PHSSR domains requires clarification of research questions, consideration of research methods, a balance of imagination and practicality, and investments to extend the information captured in existing administrative, financial, and population health monitoring systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In October 2013, the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) and Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) convened a multidisciplinary group of experts to evaluate forces shaping public health informatics (PHI) in the United States, with the aim of identifying upcoming challenges and opportunities. The PHI workshop was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its larger strategic planning process for public health and primary care. Workshop Context: During the two-day workshop, nine experts from the public and private sectors analyzed and discussed the implications of four scenarios regarding the United States economy, health care system, information technology (IT) sector, and their potential impacts on public health in the next 10 years, by 2023.Workshop participants considered the potential role of the public health sector in addressing population health challenges in each scenario, and then identified specific informatics goals and strategies needed for the sector to succeed in this role. Recommendations and Conclusion: Participants developed recommendations for the public health informatics field and for public health overall in the coming decade. These included the need to rely more heavily on intersectoral collaborations across public and private sectors, to improve data infrastructure and workforce capacity at all levels of the public health enterprise, to expand the evidence base regarding effectiveness of informatics-based public health initiatives, and to communicate strategically with elected officials and other key stakeholders regarding the potential for informatics-based solutions to have an impact on population health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initial cases of Ebola in the U.S. raise varied legal issues as discussed at a late-breaking session at the 2014 Public Health Law conference. Session presenters share their perspectives on (1) state and local powers to quarantine and isolate persons, and (2) hospital preparedness underlying the treatment of Ebola patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of the international conference on Simulation held at University of Health Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan in November 2014. England's University of Liverpool professor Vikram Jha spoke on the shortage of teachers and patients in the British National Health Service with most patients treated in communities outside hospitals. Other topics include patient-friendly learning environment, virtual labs in teaching physiology and the use of simulation in assessment.

The article calls for papers on The Governance of Health Conference 2017 Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on Medical, Managerial and Economic Influence on Health Policy-Making, to be submitted by January 29, 2017.

The article discusses the highlights of a forum on issues of genetically modified (GM) technology chaired by Mu-Ming Poo, executive associate editor of the journal "National Science Review." Members of the panel included social scientist Bing Liu, ecologist Baorong Lu and geneticist Zhen Zhu. They talked about the stance of the Chinese government on GM technology, debates about GM crops in the country and the potential impact of GM crops on human health.

INDUS-EM is India's only level one conference imparting and exchanging quality knowledge in acute care. Specifically, in general and specialized emergency care and training in trauma, burns, cardiac, stroke, environmental and disaster medicine. It provides a series of exchanges regarding academic development and implementation of training tools related to developing future academic faculty and residents in Emergency Medicine in India. The INDUS-EM leadership and board of directors invited scholars from multiple institutions to participate in this advanced educational symposium that was held in Thrissur, Kerala in October 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many health issues are transnational in nature and cannot be contained within national borders. Global health is therefore an area of study and research that should involve the collective opinions and ideas of diverse global health thinkers. This paper poses the question: how "global" is "global health"? Through an analysis of four different contributors shaping global health, including academics, journals, health institutions and presenters at global health conferences, this paper aims to determine if the development of global health is truly global. The paper concludes that global health is not being shaped by those who are most affected by it; the majority of people influencing and defining global health priorities represent institutions based in the developed world. A number of trends and opportunities are identified and recommendations are made to ameliorate the observed imbalance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]