focusing on food safety and security. The conference ended by approving the 'Davos One Health Action Plan,' which pinpointed ways to improve public health through multisectoral and multistakeholder cooperation.Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), 28 January to 5 February 2013The PMAC took place in Bangkok with the theme, 'A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions.' The PMAC hosted the 1st Global Conference on regional disease surveillance networks and the 2nd International One Health Congress Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation. One of the main objectives of the conference was to foster cooperation and communication across sectors and across borders to mitigate the threat of infectious diseases, existing or emerging, at the human--animal--ecosystem interface.1st OHCEA International Conference on One Health, 23--27 September 2013One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA)increasing number of African countries consider One Health approach as a key priority and are working toward the creation of One Health platforms.

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One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA) is a network of schools of public health and veterinary higher education institutions involving countries of the Eastern and Central Africa region, a region that includes the Congo Basin commonly considered to be one of the 'hot spots' for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. These countries are DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda with the regional secretariat located at the Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda. OHCEA has increased its reach to West Africa, with the addition of Cameroon and Senegal. The current institutional membership of OHCEA by