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One postdoctoral position in the Research Group 'REALEURASIA'

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance and political topicality.

Department 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia' of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is looking forward to refill

Second announcement - NTD ASIA 2017

Second announcement of the Asian Neglected Tropical Disease Conference 2017 (NTDASIA2017) in Khon Kaen over 8-9 March 2017 at Pullman Raja Orchid Hotel, Thailand. The theme of this year’s meeting is NTDs without Borders: From Bench to Community. It will cover multidisciplinary basic and translational research on important NTDs in Asia including, but not limited to, soil-transmitted diseases, foodborne trematodiases, schistosomiasis, taeniasis, dengue, rabies, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, melioidosis, etc.

2nd PENAPH Conference

will be held on 10-12 January 2018 at Chiang Mai, Thailand. Participatory Approaches in Animal Health, Public Health, One Health and Ecohealth

Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2018 Call for Abstracts!!

The abstract submission for PMAC 2018 is now open and will close on March 31, 2017 at 4.00 PM (Thailand local time).

All submissions should fall under three main sub-themes as follows:

Sub-Theme 1: Tracking Progress Towards Success

Sub-Theme 2: Harnessing the Power of Public-Private-Community Partnerships for "Preventing, Detecting, and Responding" to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance

NTD Asia 2017

The Asian Neglected Tropical Disease Conference 2017 (NTDASIA2017) will be held in Khon Kaen over 8-9 March 2017 at Pullman Raja Orchid Hotel, Thailand. The theme of this year’s meeting is NTDs Without Borders: From Bench to Community. It will cover multidisciplinary basic and translational research on important NTDs in Asia including, but not limited to, soil-transmitted diseases, foodborne trematodiases, schistosomiasis, taeniasis, dengue, rabies, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, melioidosis, etc.

The 5th Global Health Institute (GHI)

The 5th GHI will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from the 5th to the 24th of February 2017. It will offer intensive studies combined with a 2-day research conferences in support of the goal of One Health Leadership in emerging diseases at the convergence of animal, human and environmental health. The GHI program offers 6 course options for participants in order to fulfill and complement the One Health Leadership experiences.

5 themes have been selected for the researchers conferences (10-11th February 2017) :

Emerging and re-emerging diseases

6th Research Week For Development

The 6th Research Week for Development will be held from the 16th to the 18th of November 2016 in Vientiane, Laos.

2 coordinators of the ComAcross project (Dr. Aurelie Binot and Dr. Flavie Goutard) will give presentation talks.

EU International conference about Antimicrobial Resistance

In the framework of the world Antibiotic Awareness Week 2016 (see the WHO website), An International Conference on Tackling the Global Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance is organized by the DG SANTE European Union Delegation the 15th of November at the Swissohel, Bangkok, Thailand.

The conference is divided into 3 sessions: The global challenge of AMR, Tackling AMR in the European Union, Tackling AMR in Asia, Discussion and conclusion.

One Health PhD Thesis in Vietnam

Dr Marion Bordier has just started a One Health PhD thesis. She is going to be hosted by NIHE and NIVR in Hanoi, Vietnam from September 2016 to September 2019. The subject of her PhD is the Surveillance of health hazards at human-animal interface: tools and methods of epidemiological and socio-economic optimization for sustainable systems.

Surpervision Dr Flavie Goutard (CIRAD AGIRs) & Dr Pascal Hendrikx (ANSES).

New One health Publication on MERS-CoV risk assessment

A publication about exposure pathways of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) at the Animal-Human interface designed from an expert opinion elicitation has been published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. The expert-opinion elicitation was used in order to obtain ideas on relative importance of MERS-CoV risk factors and estimates of transmission risks from various types of contact between humans and dromedaries.

LACANET News

Fourth LACANET One Health Project’s Annual Planning meeting in Luang Prabang, Lao P.D.R.

On the 10th and 11th July 2017, all LACANET One Health Project’s members met in Luang Prabang, Lao P.D.R., to share and discuss about project’s achievements to date, challenges some activities might be facing on the long term, and identify potential solutions to ensure that the four-year generous

LACANET One Health Project’s study to assess the impact of wildlife consumption on infectious diseases

On the Lao side, the strategic research project is focused on investigating wildlife markets as hotspots for zoonotic disease transmission.

LACANET One Health Project’s 2017 dry season field studies

From the 16th January until the 30th April 2017, LACANET One Health Project’s researchers are back to the fields in Cambodia, for what is going to be the last field season of the land-use change study.

LACANET 2016 training programme

Every year, WCS selects between six and eight Cambodian students or freshly graduated scientists to take part in the LACANET project’s wet and/or dry season field studies and receive training in field collection techniques.

LACANET One Health Project’s 2016 dry season field studies

From 18th January until 29th April 2016, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge’s teams are going back to the sites that were studied throughout the 2015 rainy season, with the aim of comparing seasonal pathogen dynamics within study sites.

LACANET One Health project’s 2015 rainy season field studies

Researchers and staff from WCS and IPC have studied a total of 5 sites, located in Preah Vihear, Kompong Thom and Mondulkiri provinces, during what has constituted the 2015 rainy season field studies and spanned from 20th April until 18th September 2015.

Rodent Sampling Workshop

On 17^th February 2015, WCS and IPC co-organized a rodent sampling workshop, at Phnom Tamao Zoo

Communication Workshop in Phnom Penh – 18th February 2014

On 18^th February 2014, the One Health LACANET project held a communication workshop in Phnom Penh.

LACANET Annual Partners Meeting

The 2014 LACANET annual partners meeting took place at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on 16^th February 2014.

Kompong Thom Field Trial

The first LACANET field trial took place in Kompong Thom province from 20^th to 24^th April 2015.

ComAcross News

Call for Papers and Posters

Young researchers from the 10 ASEAN countries are invited to submit papers or posters on the scientific topics of the event, more concretely

Health with specific focus on

Latest Results on Water and Health case study (Thailand)

This case study addresses health impacts of waste and water resources management at the provincial and municipality levels in Thailand (Ayutthaya)..

Latest Results on Encephalitis case study (Cambodia)

This case study addresses the impacts of Nipah Virus (NiV) and Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) management at national, provincial and municipal levels in Cambodia.

Latest Results on Parasitic foodborne disease case study (Laos)

This case study addresses cross-sectorial management of zoonotic parasitic diseases at provincial and district level in Southern Laos.

The OHEH 2016 Congress

ComAcross project was represented at The 4th International One Health Congress and 6th Biennial Congress of the International Association for Ecology and Health that was organized in Melbourne, Australia, 3 to 8 December 2016 (https://oheh2016.org/).
Also supported by our partners from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

5th QGIS training

The 5th QGIS training will be held in Bangkok from the 16th to the 19th January. Trainees will learn how to transfer their field data into an interactive web map.

ComAcross scientific publication in PLOS Neglected Tropical diseases

A scientific publication developing the intensive circulation of Japanese Encephalitis virus in peri-urban sentinel pigs near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, written by ComAcross project collaborator (Julien Cappelle) in the framework of the Cambodia case study, has been published in PLOS Neglected Tropica

New Platform for OH in South East Asia!

Study on One Health education in South East Asia