One Planet – One Health

Space4Health

Space assets (e.g., satellites) and applications provide innovative tools to improve lives and accelerate sustainable development in many areas, and health is one of them.

• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Space for Health website.
  • UNOOSA Space4Health Webinars (May 2020)
• The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice is a global network of governments, organizations, and observers.  It seeks to use environmental observations to improve health decision-making at the international, regional, country, and district levels. To join the listserv use this registration link. To read the latest news and updates from the GEO Health Cop, please go to this page.
• Earth Observation Australia Inc.

Webinar Recordings

• Climate Change for the Emergency Physician – Dr. Caleb Dresser, Climate and Human Health Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital (recorded December 1, 2020).
• NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) investigation: MAIA Early Adopters webinar. This ISEE webinar from November 2020 is now available on the ISEE’s Global Education YouTube Channel.
• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Space4Health Webinars (May 2020).

Scientific Tools and Resources

• The University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Climate Change Initiative.
• EOS: Science News by AGU. To join the listserv, please provide your contact information on the EOS link.
• Disease Management Resources:
  • Application (CHIKRisk App): Please visit the website (Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) to view the new user interface, outbreak time series plots, and more!
  • Globe mosquito habitat mapper app
  • Archived GLOBE Mission Mosquito Webinars
  • Mission Mosquito Science Notebook: This resource focuses on the proboscis, or mouth, of the mosquito (particularly the female). This entry is a bit different in that the information, diagrams, and the science behind it all are uniquely presented through an original infographic and poem. Be sure to add this entry to your notebook and continue to build your foundation in mosquito science as well as your confidence in using the Mosquito Habitat Mapper app.
• NASA Resources:
  • NASA Earth at the American Geophysical Union Virtual Fall Meeting 2020: Seeing the Big Picture
  • The NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program (includes basic and advanced training options).
  • NASA Earth Science Applied Science online training programs
  • Getting to the Heart of the (Particulate) Matter: NASA’s MAIA to Study How Particulate Matter Air Pollution Affects Our Health
  • NASA Harvest Releases New Online Tool To Analyze COVID-19 Impacts On Agriculture And Food Security
  • NASA Earth at the American Geophysical Union Virtual Fall Meeting 2020: Seeing the Big Picture
  • Using Satellites to Detect Threats from Wildfires can Save Thousands of Dollars
  • Early Access to Global Flood Tracking
  • Maggi Glasscoe and Dalia Kirschbaum: Collaborating to Improve Flood and Landslide Monitoring
  • NASA Western Water Applications Office: To learn more please visit the website and review their latest newsletter! To keep up-to-date on WWAO activities and partnerships in the realm of using NASA data to aid water management in the Western United States, please sign up on their listserv.
  • NASA Web Features:
    • Using Satellites to Detect Threats from Wildfires can Save Thousands of Dollars
    • Early Access to Global Flood Tracking
    • Maggi Glasscoe and Dalia Kirschbaum: Collaborating to Improve Flood and Landslide Monitoring
    • NASA, USDA Sign Agreement to Improve Agricultural, Earth Science Research
    • Managing the Navajo Nation’s Water Resources with NASA Data
    • The District University of Bogota and NASA Mapathon: Rebuilding Colombia’s Most Vulnerable Municipalities through Mapping

One Health Articles

While the concept of One Health – where multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes – may have once seemed simple, “it is no longer”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “We can only prevent future pandemics with an integrated One Health approach to public health, animal health and the environment we share. Now is the time to take our partnership to a new level”, he underscored.

There is also increasing recognition that a One Health approach to food systems is also important and chronic food insecurity and/or distrust of intensively produced food are key drivers of risky practices. If you’ve not seen this, it might be of interest: https://www.globalhungerindex.org/issues-in-focus/2020.html.

One Health

What is “One Health“? One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and trans-disciplinary approach – working at local, regional, national, and global levels – to achieve optimal health and well-being outcomes recognizing the interconnections between people, animals, plants and their shared environment.

• CDC – One Health Basics (various free resources)
• One Health Commission
  • Educational resources
  • One Health Happenings newsletter (a very comprehensive listing of One Health events, webinar recordings, and opportunities)
• One Health Academy (offers webinars)
• The Center for One Health Research
• One Health Lessons (training courses and webinar resources)
• WHO – One Health Basics training course
• ScienceDirect One Health journal (open access)
• The University of Melbourne and associated Institutes:
  • The Doherty Institute
    • Infectious Disease Surveillance and One Health – One Health Overview
    • https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/news/introducing-the-concept-of-one-health-to-undergraduate-students
  • The University of Melbourne – One Health Research Group (also on Facebook)
  • Relevant University of Melbourne undergraduate breadth subjects:
    • Our Planet, Our Health (UNIB10017) Points: 12.5. On Campus (Parkville). This interdisciplinary subject will introduce students to the core concepts of One Health in its broadest sense, as a concept that describes the interconnectedness of the health of humans, animals and the environment.
    • Our Planet, Our Health II (UNIB20020) Points: 12.5. On Campus (Parkville). This interdisciplinary subject will challenge students by covering key One Health threats and responses, considering the interconnectedness of the health of humans, animals and the environment.
  • The University of Melbourne One Health PhD Program
  • Future Learn: The University of Melbourne – The Nossal Institute for Global Health: COVID-19: Global Health Perspectives. Analyse how differing capacities of health systems, governments and communities have shaped responses to and impacts of COVID-19.

Bushfire Earth Observation Taskforce Report

• After the devastating bushfire season of 2019-2020, at the request of the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Australian Space Agency led the establishment of a Bushfire Earth Observation Taskforce. Partners on the Taskforce included CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and the Bureau of Meteorology.
• The Taskforce examined the decisions required to undertake bushfire risk management. It then analysed the satellite imagery data needed to support those decisions.
• The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has considered this report. This includes future space based opportunities to support bushfire readiness. Read the report.

Climate News Articles

As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place By Ben Deacon
Published 13 Jan 2021

Image: Steven Amstrup says researchers are finding many polar bears are coming ashore for summer still hungry. Supplied: KT Miller, Polar Bears International

The vanishing Arctic
By Mark Doman, Katia Shatoba, Alex Palmer and Stephen Hutcheon
Published 16 Dec 2020

Image: NOAA 2020 Arctic Report Card

Climate change blamed as Arctic Ocean ice cover shrinks to second-lowest level on record
AP, Posted Tuesday 22 September 2020

Image: There were only 3.7 million square kilometres of Arctic sea ice when it reached its annual low mark last week. (AP: David Goldman)