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OHT’s Dr. Samantha Serrano recently sat down with journalist and One World, One Health podcast host, Maggie Fox, to discuss the importance of the One Health approach – reaching across the human, animal, and environmental health sectors – to address our world’s greatest health challenges. “We have to really talk to each other and One […]

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The Global Conversation on Brain Health and Alzheimer’s – a high-level event was organized in Washington, D.C., by the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC) and Scientific American. At the event, experts and policymakers discussed new innovations in diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s, along with the challenges of implementing these innovations in healthcare systems worldwide. The event featured […]

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OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan commented on the findings of an experimental study that sent actors pretending to be the fathers of a sick two-year-old child to over 2,000 randomly selected private doctors and pharmacists in the Indian states of Karnataka and Bihar to assess trends in prescription of oral rehydration solution (ORS), a highly effective […]

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The One Health Trust (OHT) and the Nepal Public Health Foundation (NPHF), organized the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) Nepal in-person workshop on antimicrobial resistance and vaccines on January 11, 2024. Experts from several public health institutions joined the discussion on using vaccines in the fight against antimicrobial resistance in the country, including NPHF, the […]

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Out in The Week, an article features OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan’s commentary on the growing stray dog menace in India, primarily due to the lack of effective sterilization programs in the country. As per the data released by the Indian government’s Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, the number of dog bites reported in the country has surged […]

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An article published in Nature sheds light on what India is doing to mitigate the spread of antimicrobial resistance — which has emerged as a major public health threat due to the country’s poorly regulated pharmaceutical industry and a public–private divide in healthcare that has not only contributed to the excessive use of antibiotics but […]

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Out in The National News, an article reveals that India detected its first case of the JN.1 coronavirus sub-variant amid a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, thus prompting health authorities to ask states to increase precautionary measures against the spread of infections. OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan comments, “COVID is with us permanently and […]

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Out in the Dhaka Mail, an article covers the “Antimicrobial Resistance and Vaccines Workshop” organized by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP). Find the article here.

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An article published in the Bangla Tribune covers the “Antimicrobial Resistance and Vaccines Workshop” organized by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP). Find the article here.

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