Member Perceptions of the One Health Initiative at a Zoological Institution

Zoological institutions play an important role in promoting the goals of the One Health movement. We launched the Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) at the Saint Louis Zoo in 2011 to advance the goals of One Health. In 2016, we distributed a survey to Zoo members to evaluate member awareness and understanding of One Health and to provide direction for future communication and actions from the ICM. We hypothesized that Zoo members would be aware of One Health and care about infectious disease issues. Survey results showed Zoo members primarily cared about chronic, non-infectious diseases and their associated economic costs, with participants ranking their top three health issues of concern for humans as nutrition/obesity/diet (49%), costs of health care (48%), and cancer (37%). Zoo members were interested in the roles of zoos in One Health and found them important, but were less aware of the Saint Louis Zoo’s actions that did not directly relate to animal welfare. Only 6% of members had awareness of the term “One Health” and 16% were aware of the term “Conservation Medicine.” These results suggest that zoos may do better to tailor One Health messaging to align with member interests. Messaging and programming from the Saint Louis Zoo will now include the direct benefits to human health that zoos offer, in addition to the ICM’s more ecologically focused activities. This study offered valuable insight into how Zoo members view One Health and may serve as a template to help zoological institutions develop and promote One Health

Supplementary Data from: Responsible antibiotic use labeling and consumers’ willingness to buy and pay for fluid milk

These files contain data along supporting all results reported in Schell et al 2021 Responsible antibiotic use labeling and consumers’ willingness to buy and pay for fluid milk.This study was supported by USDA-NIFA’ Federal Formula Funds under Accession # 1014331 and Multistate Research Funds accession number #1016738 awarded to Renata Ivanek

Pediatric cancer risk in association with birth defects: A systematic review.

Many epidemiological studies have examined associations between birth defects (BDs) and pediatric malignancy over the past several decades. Our objective was to conduct a systematic literature review of studies reporting on this association.We used librarian-designed searches of the PubMed Medline and Embase databases to identify primary research articles on pediatric neoplasms and BDs. English language articles from PubMed and Embase up to 10/12/2015, and in PubMed up to 5/12/2017 following an updated search, were eligible for inclusion if they reported primary epidemiological research results on associations between BDs and pediatric malignancies. Two reviewers coded each article based on the title and abstract to identify eligible articles that were abstracted using a structured form. Additional articles were identified through reference lists and other sources. Results were synthesized for pediatric cancers overall and for nine major pediatric cancer subtypes.A total of 14,778 article citations were identified, of which 80 met inclusion criteria. Pediatric cancer risk was increased in most studies in association with BDs overall with some notable specific findings, including increased risks for CNS tumors in association with CNS abnormalities and positive associations between rib anomalies and several pediatric cancer types.Some children born with BDs may be at increased risk for specific pediatric malignancy types. This work provides a foundation for future investigations that are needed to clarify specific BD types predisposing toward malignancy and possible underlying causes of both BDs and malignancy

Individual, household and environmental factors associated with arboviruses in rural human populations, Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; Center for Research and Conservation of the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute and Institute for Conservation Medicine (USA) The Wild Animal Fund (USA)Federal University of Piauí State. Department of Veterinary Morphophysiology. Teresina, PI, Brazil / Federal University of Para State. Post Graduate Program in Animal Health in the Amazon. Castanhal, PA, Brazil / Saint Louis Zoo. Institute for Conservation Medicine. St. Louis, MO, USA.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Saint Louis Zoo. Institute for Conservation Medicine. St. Louis, MO, USA / Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO, USA.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Saint Louis Zoo. Institute for Conservation Medicine. St. Louis, MO, USA.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil.Landscape change is one of the foremost drivers of the emergence of infectious diseases. Exploring demographic, household and environmental conditions under which infectious diseases occur may inform strategies to prevent disease emergence in human populations. We collected blood samples from 523 humans and explore factors for arbovirus emergence in Bahia, Brazil. The overall arbovirus seroprevalence was 65.2%, with the genus Flavivirus most prevalent (64.4%). Based on monotypic reactions, the population had contact with five arbovirus: Dengue 3, Ilheus, Oropouche, Caraparu and Eastern equine encephalitis virus. To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting exposure to Oropouche, Caraparu and Eastern equine encephalitis virus in human populations in Bahia, Northeast of Brazil. The best model fit demonstrated that household and environmental variables were more predictive of the risk of arbovirus exposure than demographic variables. The presence of forest and free-living monkeys in the areas close to the communities had a protective effect for the human population (i.e. lower seroprevalence). The dilution effect is considered as one explanation for this finding. These results highlight the important ecological role of wildlife-friendly agriculture

PRISMA flow diagram.

<p>The number of records screened is equal to the sum of the number of records initially identified in PubMed and Embase after removing overalapping citations and the number of studies with citations identified through other sources shown in the upper most right text box. After exclusions of non-relevant articles during the screening phase, 138 full-text text articles were abstracted, 58 of which were excluded leaving a total of 80 articles that were included in the review.</p

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Characteristics of included studies on the association between birth defects and childhood cancer.

<p>Characteristics of included studies on the association between birth defects and childhood cancer.</p

Emerging Ecologies of Health, Heritage, and Habitat: Looking into Living and Working in 2033

The ‘Emerging Ecologies of Health, Heritage, and Habitat: Looking into Living and Working in 2033’, project was jointly conceived by the School of Innovation &amp; Technology at Glasgow School of Art and the School of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. The project partnership involved a community of experts working across both organisations including the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre (ARC). This project and exhibition, explores emerging ecologies of health, heritage, and habitat, through the design of speculative future worlds and experiences which envisage new ways of living and working in ten years time. An ecological perspective views the world as interrelated, living systems, recognising the need to go beyond sustaining our current ways of living and working towards building reciprocal, co-evolutionary relationships, where humans, other living beings, and the systems which surround us rely on one another to thrive rather than survive. This way of perceiving the world is not new. It has a long lineage, throughout cultures, knowledge systems, heritages and communities around the world. In this sense an ecological perspective is deeply embedded in human culture – it should be the approach for how we interact with each other and the planet – future ways of living and working focused on giving out much more than we take in. Life-centred Design is a practice that expands Human-centred Design to include the consideration of other living and non-living entities, and ecological, environmental, and social impact. Thus, designing ecological futures is about considering people, products and places as dynamic entities that affect, support, and interact with each other and with myriad forms of life, not just Human. The Emerging Ecologies project asked the final year BDes Product Design cohort to explore the future ecologies of health, heritage, and habitat. This project is not about learning how to design a more sustainable version of something that already exists, or ‘fixing’ a singular problem. Rather it asks you to look beyond how we currently live and work towards ten years’ from now – to speculate on what emerging ecologies of health, heritage and habitat might look and feel like, and what these might enable and afford in terms of future experiences for people and the planet. Working with an expert community of practice from the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre and a wider expert group of academic and professional stakeholders, the students, faculty, and experts co-researched, explored and designed speculative future worlds and experiences of HEALTH, HERITAGE &amp; HABITAT which envisage new ways of LIVING &amp; WORKING in ten year’s time. This brief gives the opportunity to explore the future ecologies of health, heritage, and habitat, reflecting on the underlying complexities regarding technological acceleration, human and more-than-human agency, and quality of life, to envision a future world, develop it as an experiential exhibit and create the designed products, services and experiences for the intended recipients. In the first part of the project, the student cohort work collaboratively to engage with the future; creating a Future World exhibit that represents shifts in one domain within the wider project brief; either in Health, Heritage or Habitat and from the perspective of Living or Working. Future Living is associated with a scale from the individual person, to their family, friends, and neighbours, community groups and beyond. Whilst Future Working refers to a person’s work peers and team members, their wider community of practice, professional relationships, networks and partnerships. The individual element of the project follows this stage, giving each student, as individual designers, the opportunity to select an aspect of your Future World research to develop as a design direction, from which they prototype and produce the product(s), service, system – and related narrative – to communicate a highly resolved and refined future experience. The output from this project is curated and presented as a public exhibition. Over a week in February 2023, an experiential exhibition on ‘Designing Future Experiences: Looking into Living &amp; Working in 2033’ took place in the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre (ARC) exhibition space. This unique and creative event was the culmination of a joint project between students, staff, and communities of practice. The exhibition includes the products, services and experiences designed for the communities who might live and work within these future ecologies. The deposited materials are arranged as follows: 1. Emerging Ecologies Project Brief. The Project Brief is developed as rationale, context and a guide to the project. 2. Studio Life: The Co-creation Sessions. This section documents the critical co-creation studio sessions with experts and the studio development of the show exhibits. 3. Project Exhibition Guide: Looking into Living and Working in 2033. The Guide catalogues and describes the exhibits presented in the show. It takes you through each ‘Future World’ experience created by the students. It complements the videos, images and text presented in companion sections. 4. Experiential Exhibition in Video - Looking into Living and Working in 2033. In this section you will find short videos documenting the set-up of the exhibition and the exhibition itself. 5. Modelling the Exhibition Space in 3D. A unique scaled 3D model of the ARC gallery space was created to enable students, staff and partner lead to envisage, model, iterate and plan the choreography and curation of project exhibits and navigation of the work as a coherent visitor experience. 6. Designing Future Experiences: The value of exhibition spaces as creative environments for collaborative, multidisciplinary research, exhibitions, and audiences. 7. Exhibition guides for each individual World View. These guides take you through each individual ‘Future World’; Heritage (Living + Working), Habitat (Living + Working), Health (Living + Working). 8. Links to Previous Future Experiences Projects and Exhibitions. 9. Contributor roles (CRediT) and affiliations. This document is a high-level summary recognising the value and diversity of contributor roles. It also summarises contributor affiliations