To register and for more information, please visit: http://www.nzg.ac.za/onehealth/

Register now for the accredited One Health Workshop and (optional) one-day practical on disease investigation!
When: 18-20 February 2014

Where: National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (NZG), Pretoria

One Health is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal disease, and the environmental conditions that relate to disease. The relationships between environmental factors, human and animal health are complex, global and poorly understood.

These relationships are best investigated by teams that may include physicians, microbiologists, ecologists, biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climatologists and sociologists. Such relationships are fundamental to One Health, which seeks to harness the skills of a wide range of professionals to improve human, animal and environmental health.

Day 1: Tools, applications and ethics of One Health

Keynote addresses by Dr Chris Walzer (Austria) and Dr Alonso Aguirre (USA).
Lectures will include One Health in Africa (United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention); South African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (SAFELTP); Poaching and the wildlife trade (Endangered Wildlife Trust); Conservation in a regulatory context (Cape Nature); Genetic tools and the role of pathogens in One Health (NZG); and Ethical dilemmas of One Health (National Council of SPCA’s and Medical University of South Africa).
Day 2: One Health in a transfrontier park setting

Keynote address by Prof. Lucille Blumberg (National Institute for Communicable Diseases - NICD).
The programme will include lectures on human and animal health in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area by representatives from SANParks, the University of Pretoria (UP), the AHEAD programme, the NICD and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF).
A brief practical scenario planning session is included.
Day 3: One Health and industrial development

Keynote address by Prof. Chris Chimimba (UP)
Lectures will include ecotoxicology (UP), water quality (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and disease surveillance (NZG). The course will end with a practical case study.
The optional disease investigation day (21 February 2014) will include epidemic disease investigation and control (WITS University), applied epidemiology, statistics and data collection (DAFF), necropsy examination, forensic genetics, safety considerations and biobanking (NZG), emerging infectious diseases (IDEXX) and state regulatory aspects (DAFF).

Cost
Workshop: R4 500 per person
Practical: R1 500 per person

Who is invited to register?
Any health professional, including physicians, microbiologists, ecologists, biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climatologists and sociologists. The minimum requirement for registration is a Bachelor's degree. Limited support is available for government officials (vets, medical doctors or ecologists.)

Registration
Please complete and submit the registration form by 30 November 2013.

Enquiries
Contact Ms Nozipho Khumalo at nozipho@nzg.ac.za or +27 12 339 2830.