Noel Lee J. Miranda

Mainstreaming Zoonotic Spillover Prevention at Source in National Action Planning for Health Security in Line with the Core Focus of One Health

By |2023-03-17T11:44:12-10:00March 17th, 2023|

By Noel Lee J. Miranda, DVM, MSc, FPCVPH, DPCLAM Global Health Security, One Health, and Public Health Emergency Management, Philippines Mary Elizabeth G. Miranda, DVM, FPCVPH CEO, Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation, Inc, Philippines  ABSTRACT Excessive human-animal interactions are driven by ecosystem degradation. Sustainable and safe wildlife and biodiversity management have become priority global concerns, where the One Health approach is the ultimate solution. The International Health Regulations (IHR), national action planning for health security (NAPHS), and Global Health Security (GHS) Agenda serve as the basis for the development of health security core capacities and national [...]

Achieving Effective Herd Protection with SARS-CoV-2: A strategy to prevent public health and economic collapse

By |2020-09-24T11:27:25-10:00September 24th, 2020|

This article discusses strategies to harness the collective utility of proven tools and approaches in achieving effective herd protection with SARS-CoV-2. Excerpt The main intention of lockdown, known in the Philippines as Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), is to reduce the reproductive rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to a point near virus elimination, as demonstrated in the lockdown in Wuhan, China, and in other relatively successful countries. Beyond the direct public health goal, strict lockdown measures towards total stamping out of the virus ultimately aspires to prevent public health and economic collapse, or prolonged societal devastation, which this pandemic is capable of [...]

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