One Health & The Global Health Security Agenda

“One Health” is the integrated three-part paradigm for infectious diseases that “spillover” from animals to humans andcan cause epidemics: (1) human health, (2) animal health, and (3) ecohealth.

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was launched in 2014 by the United States government (White House,Department of Health and Human Services, Department of State, USDA, and others), the WHO D-G Dr. Margaret Chanand 28 nations, World Animal Health organizations OIE/FAO, and others to address global infectious disease threats,e.g., MERS, Ebola, pandemic influenza.

This symposium will explore the relationship between One Health and the GHSA.
Dean Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, Dean for Medical Education at Georgetown University School of Medicine,will provide the welcoming remarks and Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University MedicalCenter, School of Foreign Service, and Georgetown Law, and Senior Scholar, O'Neill Institute, will moderate thesymposium.  The event is sponsored by Georgetown University Medical Center's Department of Microbiology andImmunology.

The symposium is open the Georgetown University community and the public.

Speakers/Panelists:

• Elizabeth Cameron, Ph.D., White House National Security Staff (Invited)
• Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, Lead for GHSA Non-Governmental Sector (Confirmed)
• Cheryl Stroud, Ph.D., President, US National One Health Commission (Confirmed)
• Lawrence Madoff, MD, Editor, ProMED (www.promedmail.org) (Confirmed)
• Jennifer Witthof, VMD, Georgetown University Medical Center Department of Microbiology and Immunology(Confirmed)
• GHSA “NextGen”: Joanne Michelle Ocampo (Moderator, Georgetown University) , Ana Ayala (O'Neill Institute,Georgetown Law), Jamechia Hoyle (George Mason University), Alexandra Phelan (Georgetown Law), JamechiaHoyle (GMU), Erin Sorrell (George Washington University) (All Confirmed)
• Overseas Colleagues: Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe (Invited)