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Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO)

Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO) is back again this year! 📖

For a bit of background info, MIAO 2022 is an inter-university academic-based event. It is a series of competitions as well as a workshop with the theme of Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS). 🩸💉

Here are some info on our activities.

For our group competitions, we have 2, which are opened to Medical and Nursing students:

          1. 📷 Short Video Competition
          2. 🖼️ Poster Competition

For our individual competitions, we have 2 which are opened to ONLY Medical students:
          1. 🔠 MCQ Competition
          2. ✍️ OSPE Competition

Lastly, for our workshops, we have a workshop that is opened to Medical and Nursing students:
          1. 👩‍⚕️ Body Interact Session

We thank you all for your support and we look forward to some friendly competition between our universities! 😏😃

For more information on the competitions / workshop, please refer to the drive folder below.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eL00ER3eCCwrXASZX2W4Yt60xLgeHbqY?usp=share_link

One Health Workforce Academies (OHWA) Pilot Enrollment

Our OHWA pilot enrollment is now open for registration and now live on the academies website https://onehealthworkforceacademies.org/. The enrollment period runs through 15 Dec and as a reminder these first pilot courses are offered free of charge.

Please do not hesitate to check it out and share this news to your colleagues, networks, and member universities. For more information about the courses and to enroll, please follow the link below:https://onehealthworkforceacademies.org/training-material/
2022 Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Challenge FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Social Media Contest

BACKGROUND

Everyone can suffer from a serious infection that can only be treated with antimicrobials. For the year 2019, it was estimated that 1.27 million human deaths were attributable to bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) (Murray et al., 2022). Hence, it is essential to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobials.

Although AMR is a natural phenomenon, its spread has been exacerbated by the misuse of antimicrobials. This situation does not only concerns human medicine, but also the food production sector, which is responsible for a large part of the global antimicrobial use (PhamDuc et al., 2019). Moreover, AMR can transfer between animals, humans, food and the environment. Thus, all animal health actors (veterinarians, para-veterinarians, pharmacists, farmers, employees of food-production industries or pharmaceutical companies, etc.) have a role to play to ensure antimicrobials are used responsibly.

In this context, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) is launching a social media contest with the overall aim to support awareness-raising on the AMR issue. This contest is meant to give a voice to all those  individuals in the food and agriculture sector who are either impacted by AMR or acting at their level to prevent and control the emergence and spread of AMR.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

  1. You must be on Twitter or Facebook with a public profile (unprotected tweets or public posts).
  2. Create a short video where you describe your AMR Story. The video must:
    a. Last between 15 seconds and 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
    b. Be in English or with English subtitles.
  3. Post your short video on Twitter or Facebook using #AMRStoryChallenge (see eligibility criteria below).

If you wonder what could be your AMR story, you may ask yourself some of the below questions:

Every AMR story is valuable. Just be yourself and sincere when preparing your video. Of course, if you can make something fun, this is even better! If you have some tips or practical solutions to prevent and control AMR in livestock in the field, please explain them in your video, we would be very interested to hear about it.

Please note that each participant must be a citizen of an FAO Member country in Asia and the Pacific. Please also see below for additional eligibility information.

FAO PRIZES FOR THE BEST AMR STORY
The top three contestants will receive an iPad Mini!

PROCESS

A designated panel of judges will score the videos based on:

The contest will run from 5 September, 00.00 to 16 December 2022, 23.59 (UTC +7).

The three winners will be contacted by FAO for their complete contact details. If a winner cannot be traced or does not respond within 5 days following contact via his/her social media profile, or refuses his/her selection, the selection will be forfeited and the next contestant with the highest average score will be selected.

CONTEST RULES

  1. Eligibility.
    a. The Contest is open to individuals (“Entrants”) or groups of individuals who have reached the age of 18 at the time of entering the Contest. FAO
    employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the Contest. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion.
    b. Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the judging committee, are not eligible to compete.
    c. Entrants who use accompanying music must ensure that they are using
    royalty-free music they are licensed to use or under a creative commons license with proper credit or attribution.
  2. Submission of entries.
    a. FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions that are not consistent with the Organization’s values and guiding principles.
    b. FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/ or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules, including these Rules, including as regards copyright and privacy, or who tampers with the entry process. For the avoidance of doubt, the video should not infringe any intellectual property rights or any right whatsoever of any third party.
    c. FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any submissions in relation to the contest.
    d. No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material.
    e. FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without
    limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction.
    f. By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data,
    especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant’s identity, postal address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the entrant’s eligibility to participate in the contest.
    g. Nothing in these Contest Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed, or statements made in relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of FAO.
  3. Copyright ownership and licensing for reproduction.
    a. Entrants must own the copyright of the material they submit to the contest. If the material contains images of a person or persons, entrants must have obtained the permission of those persons for submission of their material to the contest as well as the use of the material by FAO for the purposes described in these General Rules.
    b. FAO will not seek additional approvals in connection with the use of the
    material and it will not be responsible for any claim or complaint alleging
    violation of the rights of third parties.
    c. By entering the Contest, Entrants, while retaining copyright ownership, grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide exclusive license to FAO, for noncommercial purposes, to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and the promotion of FAO’s work, in:
    • FAO corporate website: www.fao.org;
    • Corporate videos or digital recordings to illustrate the work of the
    Organization;
    • Printed FAO publications, brochures or posters;
    • Social media channels, including promotion of the Contest itself;
    • Any other media used by FAO in its communications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMARTION

You’ve got a question? Feel free to reach out to us at FAORAP-AntimicrobialResistance@fao.org

Webinar on RuliTEM for Rapid Disease Diagnosis and High-Resolution Virus Imaging
 Speaker:Dr Lim Fei Tieng (Senior Application Specialist of HTI PhD in Neuroscience) Date: 10th November 2022 (Thursday) Time: 10.00 am – 11.00 am Registration link: https://forms.gle/fAaebMVSFZjKtxK87
International Congress on Infectious Diseases 2022 in Kuala Lumpur

The long-awaited clinical and allied health event featuring expanded sessions and an opportunity to connect with global leaders, colleagues, and friends from all over the world! We are delivering cutting edge science, new session formats (and debates!), all with the backdrop of Southeast Asia. After two long years, this is THE opportunity to exchange knowledge, achieve CME credits, restart collaborations, and expand your network. Please join us there!  Wide range of current topics will be discussed by local and international experts including monkeypox, rabies, malaria, dengue, COVID-19, emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, global health, genomics surveillance, preventing the next pandemic, rapid diagnostics, innovations in infectious diseases, vaccines , antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, STD, mycobacterium, fungal and viral infections.
 Visit https://isidcongress.org/
One Health Summer Course

2nd National Epidemiology Conference – One Health Approach ‘Reenergizing Future Epidemiology Landscape

Biothreat Preparedness & Response.
Come and join us for the MBBA Webinar Series 3/2022 Title: Biothreat Preparedness & Response.Speaker: Felo Utama Dr. Badrul Hisham bin Abd. Samad, Pakar Perunding Perubatan Kesihatan Awam & Felo Penyelidik (VK7), Pusat Penyelidikan Bantuan Kemanusiaan & Peredaan Bencana, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia.Wednesday, 20 July 2022 · 11:00am – 12:00pmGoogle Meet joining infoVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/yhc-csyt-zjgPre-registration to attend the webinar is not required!
Communicating Science to Inform Policy: From Research to One Health Action

Dear MyOHUN Members, Colleagues and Friends,

Attached is the registration information for the upcoming OHW-NG and SEAOHUN supported virtual workshop “Communicating Science to Inform Policy: From Research to One Health Action” taking place on Friday, July 22 and Friday, July 29 from 8-10am ICT (9am-11am Malaysia Time)

Registration and pre-workshop survey link is here: https://forms.gle/Xkou9cGCb8Jf2w2UA

The registration link asks to provide your names and contact info which will then provide a zoom link for the two workshop sessions. There is also a follow-on pre-workshop survey, and responses to the survey questions will enable the workshop team to assign participants for breakout groups during the two workshop sessions. While the survey is not required it is strongly encouraged for interested participants to take a few minutes to complete as much as you are able.

We look forward to having you join!

Best regards from the workshop team on behalf of One Health Workforce – Next Generation, SEAOHUN and country OHUNs 


Laboratory Quality Management System Webinar Series

Please join! the webinar series on “Laboratory Quality Management System Webinar Series” organized by one of our partners:

IQLS- Integrated Quality Laboratory Services

The Laboratory Quality Management system webinar series is a three-part webinar series that will focus on the process management, management of non-confirming events and laboratory assessments.

Part 1. Process Management on Thursday, July 21, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm (Bangkok Time), please see more detail in attachment or RPHL website

Here is the registration link, PLEASE CLICK HERE <https://us06web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_4lnaDWmnQWyc2cDKuWaEbA>

Contact person: Shruti Malik MD, MPH, D(ABMM) International Laboratory Specialist malik@iqls.net 

ISOHA Membership
ISOHA is welcoming any One Health Club that wants to become a member of ISOHA at:  shorturl.at/hrLPY ISOHA is now accepting Individual Members. : https://bit.ly/3NL3mnp#ISOHA #OneHealth #membership #africa #asia #europe #america #oceania
Catalyzing #OneHealth Citizens of the Future
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, submission deadline: 3 July 2022 The #SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference ‘Catalyzing #OneHealth Citizens of the Future’ 6-7 September 2022, Bangkok, Thailand.This knowledge-sharing event is for current and aspiring One Health practitioners, educators and researchers. With the theme ‘Catalyzing One Health Citizens of the Future’, the conference seeks to bring together students, academicians, One Health practitioners and advocates those with diverse backgrounds to share their experience, research findings, and perspectives to discuss One Health education and complex health threat issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). You can find the guidelines for submitting an abstract here! https://www.seaohun.org/seaohun-2022-international…Any questions about the guidelines can be directed to conference@seaohun.org  

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Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO) Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO) is back again this year! 📖 For a bit of background info, MIAO 2022 is an inter-university academic-based event. It is a series of competitions as well as a workshop with the theme of Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS). 🩸💉 Here are some info on our activities. For our group competitions, we have 2, which are opened to Medical and Nursing students:           1. 📷 Short Video Competition           2. 🖼️ Poster Competition For our individual competitions, we have 2 which are opened to ONLY Medical students:           1. 🔠 MCQ Competition           2. ✍️ OSPE Competition Lastly, for our workshops, we have a workshop that is opened to Medical and Nursing students:           1. 👩‍⚕️ Body Interact Session We thank you all for your support and we look forward to some friendly competition between our universities! 😏😃 For more information on the competitions / workshop, please refer to the drive folder below. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eL00ER3eCCwrXASZX2W4Yt60xLgeHbqY?usp=share_link One Health Workforce Academies (OHWA) Pilot Enrollment Our OHWA pilot enrollment is now open for registration and now live on the academies website https://onehealthworkforceacademies.org/. The enrollment period runs through 15 Dec and as a reminder these first pilot courses are offered free of charge. Please do not hesitate to check it out and share this news to your colleagues, networks, and member universities. For more information about the courses and to enroll, please follow the link below:https://onehealthworkforceacademies.org/training-material/ 2022 Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Challenge FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Social Media Contest BACKGROUND Everyone can suffer from a serious infection that can only be treated with antimicrobials. For the year 2019, it was estimated that 1.27 million human deaths were attributable to bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) (Murray et al., 2022). Hence, it is essential to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobials. Although AMR is a natural phenomenon, its spread has been exacerbated by the misuse of antimicrobials. This situation does not only concerns human medicine, but also the food production sector, which is responsible for a large part of the global antimicrobial use (PhamDuc et al., 2019). Moreover, AMR can transfer between animals, humans, food and the environment. Thus, all animal health actors (veterinarians, para-veterinarians, pharmacists, farmers, employees of food-production industries or pharmaceutical companies, etc.) have a role to play to ensure antimicrobials are used responsibly. In this context, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) is launching a social media contest with the overall aim to support awareness-raising on the AMR issue. This contest is meant to give a voice to all those  individuals in the food and agriculture sector who are either impacted by AMR or acting at their level to prevent and control the emergence and spread of AMR. HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
  1. You must be on Twitter or Facebook with a public profile (unprotected tweets or public posts).
  2. Create a short video where you describe your AMR Story. The video must: a. Last between 15 seconds and 2 minutes and 20 seconds. b. Be in English or with English subtitles.
  3. Post your short video on Twitter or Facebook using #AMRStoryChallenge (see eligibility criteria below).
If you wonder what could be your AMR story, you may ask yourself some of the below questions: Every AMR story is valuable. Just be yourself and sincere when preparing your video. Of course, if you can make something fun, this is even better! If you have some tips or practical solutions to prevent and control AMR in livestock in the field, please explain them in your video, we would be very interested to hear about it. Please note that each participant must be a citizen of an FAO Member country in Asia and the Pacific. Please also see below for additional eligibility information. FAO PRIZES FOR THE BEST AMR STORY The top three contestants will receive an iPad Mini! PROCESS A designated panel of judges will score the videos based on: The contest will run from 5 September, 00.00 to 16 December 2022, 23.59 (UTC +7). The three winners will be contacted by FAO for their complete contact details. If a winner cannot be traced or does not respond within 5 days following contact via his/her social media profile, or refuses his/her selection, the selection will be forfeited and the next contestant with the highest average score will be selected. CONTEST RULES
  1. Eligibility. a. The Contest is open to individuals (“Entrants”) or groups of individuals who have reached the age of 18 at the time of entering the Contest. FAO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the Contest. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion. b. Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the judging committee, are not eligible to compete. c. Entrants who use accompanying music must ensure that they are using royalty-free music they are licensed to use or under a creative commons license with proper credit or attribution.
  2. Submission of entries. a. FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions that are not consistent with the Organization’s values and guiding principles. b. FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/ or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules, including these Rules, including as regards copyright and privacy, or who tampers with the entry process. For the avoidance of doubt, the video should not infringe any intellectual property rights or any right whatsoever of any third party. c. FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any submissions in relation to the contest. d. No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material. e. FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction. f. By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant’s identity, postal address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the entrant’s eligibility to participate in the contest. g. Nothing in these Contest Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed, or statements made in relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of FAO.
  3. Copyright ownership and licensing for reproduction. a. Entrants must own the copyright of the material they submit to the contest. If the material contains images of a person or persons, entrants must have obtained the permission of those persons for submission of their material to the contest as well as the use of the material by FAO for the purposes described in these General Rules. b. FAO will not seek additional approvals in connection with the use of the material and it will not be responsible for any claim or complaint alleging violation of the rights of third parties. c. By entering the Contest, Entrants, while retaining copyright ownership, grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide exclusive license to FAO, for noncommercial purposes, to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and the promotion of FAO’s work, in: • FAO corporate website: www.fao.org; • Corporate videos or digital recordings to illustrate the work of the Organization; • Printed FAO publications, brochures or posters; • Social media channels, including promotion of the Contest itself; • Any other media used by FAO in its communications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMARTION You’ve got a question? Feel free to reach out to us at FAORAP-AntimicrobialResistance@fao.org Webinar on RuliTEM for Rapid Disease Diagnosis and High-Resolution Virus Imaging  Speaker:Dr Lim Fei Tieng (Senior Application Specialist of HTI PhD in Neuroscience) Date: 10th November 2022 (Thursday) Time: 10.00 am – 11.00 am Registration link: https://forms.gle/fAaebMVSFZjKtxK87 International Congress on Infectious Diseases 2022 in Kuala Lumpur The long-awaited clinical and allied health event featuring expanded sessions and an opportunity to connect with global leaders, colleagues, and friends from all over the world! We are delivering cutting edge science, new session formats (and debates!), all with the backdrop of Southeast Asia. After two long years, this is THE opportunity to exchange knowledge, achieve CME credits, restart collaborations, and expand your network. Please join us there!  Wide range of current topics will be discussed by local and international experts including monkeypox, rabies, malaria, dengue, COVID-19, emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, global health, genomics surveillance, preventing the next pandemic, rapid diagnostics, innovations in infectious diseases, vaccines , antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, STD, mycobacterium, fungal and viral infections.  Visit https://isidcongress.org/ One Health Summer Course 2nd National Epidemiology Conference – One Health Approach ‘Reenergizing Future Epidemiology Landscape Biothreat Preparedness & Response. Come and join us for the MBBA Webinar Series 3/2022 Title: Biothreat Preparedness & Response.Speaker: Felo Utama Dr. Badrul Hisham bin Abd. Samad, Pakar Perunding Perubatan Kesihatan Awam & Felo Penyelidik (VK7), Pusat Penyelidikan Bantuan Kemanusiaan & Peredaan Bencana, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia.Wednesday, 20 July 2022 · 11:00am – 12:00pmGoogle Meet joining infoVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/yhc-csyt-zjgPre-registration to attend the webinar is not required! Communicating Science to Inform Policy: From Research to One Health Action Dear MyOHUN Members, Colleagues and Friends, Attached is the registration information for the upcoming OHW-NG and SEAOHUN supported virtual workshop “Communicating Science to Inform Policy: From Research to One Health Action” taking place on Friday, July 22 and Friday, July 29 from 8-10am ICT (9am-11am Malaysia Time) Registration and pre-workshop survey link is here: https://forms.gle/Xkou9cGCb8Jf2w2UA The registration link asks to provide your names and contact info which will then provide a zoom link for the two workshop sessions. There is also a follow-on pre-workshop survey, and responses to the survey questions will enable the workshop team to assign participants for breakout groups during the two workshop sessions. While the survey is not required it is strongly encouraged for interested participants to take a few minutes to complete as much as you are able. We look forward to having you join! Best regards from the workshop team on behalf of One Health Workforce – Next Generation, SEAOHUN and country OHUNs  Laboratory Quality Management System Webinar Series Please join! the webinar series on “Laboratory Quality Management System Webinar Series” organized by one of our partners: IQLS- Integrated Quality Laboratory Services The Laboratory Quality Management system webinar series is a three-part webinar series that will focus on the process management, management of non-confirming events and laboratory assessments. Part 1. Process Management on Thursday, July 21, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm (Bangkok Time), please see more detail in attachment or RPHL website Here is the registration link, PLEASE CLICK HERE <https://us06web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_4lnaDWmnQWyc2cDKuWaEbA> Contact person: Shruti Malik MD, MPH, D(ABMM) International Laboratory Specialist malik@iqls.net  ISOHA Membership ISOHA is welcoming any One Health Club that wants to become a member of ISOHA at:  shorturl.at/hrLPY ISOHA is now accepting Individual Members. : https://bit.ly/3NL3mnp#ISOHA #OneHealth #membership #africa #asia #europe #america #oceania Catalyzing #OneHealth Citizens of the Future CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, submission deadline: 3 July 2022 The #SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference ‘Catalyzing #OneHealth Citizens of the Future’ 6-7 September 2022, Bangkok, Thailand.This knowledge-sharing event is for current and aspiring One Health practitioners, educators and researchers. With the theme ‘Catalyzing One Health Citizens of the Future’, the conference seeks to bring together students, academicians, One Health practitioners and advocates those with diverse backgrounds to share their experience, research findings, and perspectives to discuss One Health education and complex health threat issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). You can find the guidelines for submitting an abstract here! https://www.seaohun.org/seaohun-2022-international…Any questions about the guidelines can be directed to conference@seaohun.org   Toggle Content