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IVSA JOURNAL | Issue 2
IN THIS REPORT
I
• Call for L0VPHO's
II
• AMR Report
III
• Link to VPH Journals
I. Call for LoVPHO’s
SCOH Report
by Elizabeth Malcolm, SCOH Chairman 2015/2016
The Standing Committee on One Health
(SCoH) calls every Local Chapter
(Member Organization) of IVSA to elect
to their boards a Local Veterinary Public
Health Officer (LoVPHO). Since 2013,
more than 25 Member Organizations
started this position, and almost all have
held public health/one health projects!
Interested? Fill out this form and apply:
http://tinyurl.com/jlucbz4
AMR PROJECT RESULTS
394 likes,
277 shares
On the IPSF Facebook
293 likes,
153 shares
On the IFMSA Facebook
18 likes,
11 shares
On the IVSA Facebook
II. AMR Report
Organization of the Project
For the AMR project for the
year 2015, we had one online
meeting
between
Ana
Catarina Duarte & Shadi
(representing IPSF), Marwa
& Jozo (representing IFMSA)
and
Claudine
Girardo
(representing IVSA)
- During that meeting, we
planned to create an
infographic, which was
released on the 20th of
November 2015
Results of the Project
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-
-
The infographic appeared in
VPH Journal #5
- The results of the AMR
Project for the year 2015 (the
infographic created was
released on each Facebook
page of IPSF, IFMSA and
IVSA) is shown on the left of
this page
Moving forward with AMR Project
- A follow-up meeting was
held on Saturday, January
9th 2016
- During
this
meeting,
collaborators constructed a
2-year strategic plan in order
-
to clarify goals of the project
as well as strengthen the
project overall
We are currently creating an
AMR manual to distribute to
the public as a reference of
antimicrobial resistance, this
is done as of March 1st, 2016
In addition, we are creating
an AMR manual to help
guide individuals on “How to
create a project for AMR
Day”,
with
detailed
instructions and examples
for students to follow by.
III. LINK TO THE VPH JOURNALS
VPH Journal #5
http://issuu.com/ivsaveterinarypu
blichealthjournal/docs/vph_journa
l_5th_edition__2_
Link to other SCoH publications
and past VPH Journals
https://issuu.com/scoh
SCOH email
[email protected]