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Editorial
Prof. Dr. Marcel Tanner, Director
Dear Reader
It is a great pleasure to present to you a new issue of our regular newsletter. The current issue on "From one medicine to one health" addresses a key area of global and international public health. The concept of "one medicine", was introduced by Calvin Schwabe in the 1960s, and entails the study of health and disease regardless of species differences between humans and animals - it harmonically brings together human and veterinary medicine.
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1) From one medicine to one health
“One health”: The potential of closer cooperation between human and animal health in Africa.
PD Jakob Zinsstag, DVM PhD
Prof. Dr. Marcel Tanner
Emerging zoonoses affect livestock and humans, which calls for closer cooperation between animal and public health. Conceptually ideal, such cooperation is difficult to achieve and causing agents of outbreaks are often confounded.
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Rabies
PD Jakob Zinsstag, DVM PhD
Despite the odds of working in Chad, the project on rabies control worked very well and showed, after a first study by another group in Tanzania (Lembo et al. 2006), that the new direct immuno-histochemical test (dRIT, Biotinyl coupled anti-rabies antibody, streptavidin-peroxidase detection system) of CDC has the same performance as the Immunefluorescence gold standard.
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Brucellosis in Kyrgyzstan
Prof. Bassirou Bonfoh, DVM PhD
The breakdown of the Soviet Union in 90s brought deep reforms such as privatization, market economy and land reforms. The country has a long pastoral tradition with its huge mountain pastures potential.
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Joint human and animal health services and joint livestock and human demographic surveillance
Daniel Weibel
The Swiss Tropical Institute, in close collaboration with national and international partners, has set up an interdisciplinary research and action programme to identify, test, and evaluate health interventions in nomadic pastoralist settings of Chad, Mali, and Mauritania.
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2) Course Bulletin
3) STI Symposium on "The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Health Systems Development"
4) News from STI staff
5) STI as WHO Collaborating Center
6) Job Opportunities
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