7 February 2011
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H-II: Stephen Michael Apatow Named Ambassador for
Vet2011
Global Initiative
This last week, Dr Claude Grandmontagne, Vet 2011 General Secretary,
Ecole
Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon announced Stephen Michael Apatow as a corresponding member
and
ambassador for the Vet2011 Global Initiative. Stephen is the founder of the Humanitarian
Resource
Institute, Pathobiologics International and the United Nations Arts Initiative.
In
2011, all veterinary institutions will have an opportunity to organize
events
in their own countries to
promote
the veterinary profession through the Vet2011 Global Initiative.
The main aim is to improve
public
awareness and remind policymakers everywhere in the world that:
--
The
veterinary profession has been serving humankind for 250 years;
-- Modern veterinarians are not only animal doctors and animal
welfare
advocates, they are also key public health stakeholders because of
their
crucial role in:
- promoting
food security by supervising animal production hygiene,
- controlling
zoonoses,
- monitoring
food quality and safety,
- biomedical
research,
- protecting
the environment and biodiversity.
In 2010,
Stephen
coordinated an international campaign in support of World
Veterinary
Day, with the theme "One World, One Health."
During
the last decade, as Director of Research and Development for the
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center
for Medicine,
Veterinary Medicine and Law, he has worked to encourage
collaboration between the human medical, veterinary academic and
professional
associations in 192 United Nations member countries in cooperation with
the
global "One
Health Initiative."
In 2006, as a keynote speaker at the Los Alamos conference "The
Future
of Biodetection Systems," Apatow's presentation "DNA-based Detection Technologies"
spotlighted
operational human-veterinary medical molecular diagnostic applications
with
case studies that included West Nile Virus and Pandemic Influenza.
In
2002, he was presented the Award
for Excellence in Outbreak Reporting on the Internet by ProMED-mail
and
the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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