International Conference on One Health 2020 (ICOH 2020)

International Conference on One Health (ICOH) – 2020

The International Conference on One Health – 2020 was organized by the multi-sectoral collaboration with our international team namely, International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA) Rampur, FV&AS, IUB, IVSA Pakistan, Bahawalpur, IVSA Portugal, Medicine Veterinary Federation Academic (FAMV), International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA), Pakistan and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) UCET IUB on the occasion of One Health Day – 2020, dated 3^rd November. This conference was continued as two days session of webinars from eight key-speakers of different fields of professions, on 3^rd and 4^th November. The conference celebrates and brings attention to the need for One Health approach to address shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface.

Both days started exactly at 2 pm GMT (7:45 pm NST) and participants entered 5 minutes earlier. Each day we came up with four presentations. After 10 minutes of welcome speech, the presentation session was begun. We provided 40 minutes of total time to each presenter including their introduction from the host of the respective MO as well as the Q&A period. In this way, we had around 3-hour session each day for this conference. We had registered 369 respondents from the Google form from 35 different nations. We were really overwhelmed by such a huge number of participants. We had our panelist in the following order:

On 3^rd November

The first day was moderated by Mr. Muhammad Ammun Bashir from IVSA Pakistan, Bahawalpur, and had given the first 10-minute welcome speech, a brief introduction of the conference, and some ground rules on any virtual platform session. From IVSA Rampur's side, Mr. Binay Thapa being the host for our 3^rd speaker for that day, Mrs. Sramika Rijal, moderated well for the entire forty minutes and had done interactive Q&A period within the time limitation. Finally, at 4:50 GMT, Mr. Bashir ended Day 1^st with concluding remarks and information for the next day's session.

1. From Biomedical Engineer, 1^st  Speaker on Day 1^st from 2:10 to 2:50 GMT

• Name: Engr. Tehreem Awan
• Designation and Affiliation: Assistant Professor at NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Multan.
• Topic of Presentation: “Role of Engineering in Diagnosis”

1. From IVSA Portugal, FAMV, 2^nd Speaker on Day 1^st from 2:50 to 3:30 GMT

• Name:  Professor Patrícia Poeta
• Affiliation and Designation: Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.
• Presentation Title: “Antibiotic Resistance - a One Health Perspective”

1. From IVSA Rampur, 3^rd Speaker on Day 1^st from 3:30 to 4:10 GMT

• Name: Mrs. Sramika Rijal
• Designation and Affiliation: Assistant Professor in Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agribotany and Conservation Ecology, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal.
• Topic of Presentation: “One Health Triad in The Face of Climate Change”

1. From IVSA Pakistan, Bahawalpur, 4th Speaker on Day 1^st from 4:10 to 4:50 GMT

• Name: Dr. Muhammad Bilal
• Affiliation and Designation: MSc. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and AMR, University of Glasgow, UK. DVM, Islamic University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
• Presentation Title: “Future Opportunities for Undergraduate Students on One Health”

On 4^th November

The second day was moderated by Mr. Ali Anwar from IVSA Pakistan, Bahawalpur and had given the first 5 minutes of welcome speech. Naveera Fayyaz from IFMSA-Pakistan had given brief introduction of the conference and some rules for the virtual session. From IVSA Rampur side, again Mr. Binay Thapa being the host for our 2^nd speaker for that day, Dr. Rebanta Kumar Bhattarai, moderated the entire forty minutes but unfortunately could not have done Q&A period due to time limitation. At last, we had a great opportunity to have interactive talk with IVSA MOD, Nabeelah Rajah from South-Africa. She had given us a huge congratulations and best wishes for the future performance and collaboration.

1. From IFMSA Pakistan, 1^st Speaker on Day 2^nd (4^th November) from 2:10 to 2:50 GMT

• Name: Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz
• Designation and Affiliation: Vice-President for Capacity Building IFMSA-Pakistan.
• Topic of Presentation: “One Health: Is Multi-sectoral collaboration the need of the hour?”

1. From IVSA Rampur, 2^nd Speaker on Day 2^nd (4th November) from 2:50 to 3:30 GMT

• Name: Dr. Rebanta Kumar Bhattarai
• Designation and Affiliation: Associate Professor in Faculty of Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Fisheries (FAVF) at Department of Vet. Microbiology and Parasitology, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal.
• Topic of Presentation: “Zoonotic Disease: One Heath Approach for its Control”

1. From IVSA Portugal, FAMV, 3^rd Speaker on Day 2^nd (4^th November) from 3:30 to 4:10 GMT

• Name:  Professor Yolanda Vaz
• Affiliation and Designation: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMV-UL), Portugal.
• Presentation Title: “Veterinary Public Health Practice in Portugal”

1. From IVSA Pakistan, Bahawalpur, 4^th Speaker on Day 2^nd (4^th November) from 4:10 to 4:50 GMT

• Name: Dr. Umer Farooq
• Affiliation and Designation: Associate Professor in Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Islamic University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
• Presentation Title: “One Health: A Discipline or An Implementational Strategy”

In this way, we had successfully conducted and accomplished the 2 days International Conference on One Health – 2020. We would like to congratulate the entire five different MOs for this joint collaboration. On the behalf of IVSA Rampur, we would like to acknowledge our guest speakers Mrs. Sramika Rijal and Dr. Rebanta Kumar Bhattarai for their precious time and never-ending knowledge and blessings for us. We had designed a great piece of certificate on 3 different categories: Certificate of Honour for speakers, Appreciation for moderators and Participation for our participants. These certificates were designed by our Secretary, Mr. Somnath Aryal. From this conference, we had learned about the collaboration process, interaction with international students, guests and delegates, our own potentials and effort as take home messege, and maintained a great international relationship for future and mutual benefits.