{"id":239439,"date":"2026-07-09T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:57:15","slug":"transparency-and-collaboration-were-at-the-forefront-of-the-second-annual-pa-one-health-consortium-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239439\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency and collaboration were at the forefront of the second annual PA One Health Consortium meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">Representatives from academia, health care, industry, wildlife, agriculture, veterinary medicine, environmental health and public health joined community organizations and government representatives from across the commonwealth at the second annual meeting of the Pennsylvania One Health Consortium (PAOHC), a coalition of experts focused on improving health and well-being for all Pennsylvanians. The meeting, convened by Pitt\u2019s School of Public Health, was held June 21-23 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Health links people, animals, plants and ecosystems,\u201d said Maureen Lichtveld, dean of the School of Public Health, which has served as the consortium\u2019s coordinating institution since 2024. \u201cThat linkage is central to our mission and to the mission of our consortium and its partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PAOHC builds off the One Health Task Force that was first launched in 2018 by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. In addition to Pitt Public Health, PAOHC partner educational institutions include the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State as well as Delaware Valley, Temple, Carnegie Mellon and Villanova universities.<\/p>\n<p>PAOHC\u2019s mission is to advance One Health in Pennsylvania by building cross-sector partnerships that support research, education and community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Aligned with the theme of this year\u2019s meeting, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennsylvaniaonehealthconsortium.org\/2026-annual-meeting-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Health in Action: From Data to Decisions<\/a>,\u201d 33 speakers and more than 200 meeting attendees agreed that information sharing and collaboration among academic, government and nonprofit sectors \u2014 the kind exemplified by the PAOHC \u2014 is key to facing threats to human, animal and ecosystem health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollaboration can be clumsy, but it is necessary if we are to be ready to solve problems and face the next pandemic,\u201d epidemiologist Harris Pastides, president emeritus of the University of South Carolina, said in his keynote address. \u201cBut I say \u2018Bravo\u2019 to Pennsylvania and this consortium, for you are in the vanguard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representatives from academia, health care, industry, wildlife, agriculture, veterinary medicine, environmental health and public health joined community organizations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}