The One Health Breakthrough Partnership (OHBP) is a unique group of researchers, academics, water providers and regulators, environment agency representatives, and public health specialists from five organisations across Scotland working together to reduce pharmaceutical pollution in the environment through sustainable One Health innovation.

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Health Care Without Harm Webinar: Managing the water footprint of the healthcare sector: Strategies to minimise pharmaceutical pollution

by lydianiemi, posted in Policy & Media Outputs

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) will host an open webinar exploring how the healthcare sector can manage it’s water footprint and ways to minimise pharmaceutical pollution in hospital wastewater through sustainable waste management. Date and time: Apr 9 (10:00 GMT) Registration link: Webinar Registration – Zoom Description: While pharmaceuticals are vital to patient recovery, their … Continue reading Health Care Without Harm Webinar: Managing the water footprint of the healthcare sector: Strategies to minimise pharmaceutical pollution

Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project: Final event at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (Cambridge)

by lydianiemi, posted in Conference & Event Activity, Uncategorized

The final event of the Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project will take place on June 9th at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (DISC), Cambridge. The PREMIER project (2020-2026) has brought together a world-leading multi-disciplinary consortium composed of 27 partners from the public and private sectors working to contribute to a sustainable future by … Continue reading Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project: Final event at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (Cambridge)

New Project: Investigating whether a One Health approach can be used to address load reductions of pharmaceuticals under Article 8 rUWWTD 

by lydianiemi, posted in Project Activity

The Scottish Government will consider the extent to which the recast Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (rUWWTD) should be incorporated into Scottish legislation. Article 8 of the rUWWTD requires a subset of substances from 12 identified to have an 80% load reduction at some of the larger wastewater treatment works over a phased period – 10 of these substances are pharmaceuticals.  Scottish Water and the University … Continue reading New Project: Investigating whether a One Health approach can be used to address load reductions of pharmaceuticals under Article 8 rUWWTD 

Towards One Health action for addressing antimicrobial resistance in the age of polycrisis

by lydianiemi, posted in Uncategorized

A new publication by the Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance network further strengthens the need for One Health action in response to AMR, one that is similarly applicable to the triple planetary crises (chemicals, pollution, and waste; climate change; and biodiversity loss). A few key points:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) sits at the intersection of human, animal, … Continue reading Towards One Health action for addressing antimicrobial resistance in the age of polycrisis

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