One Health Medical Association (OHMA) serves as an interdisciplinary space for Binghamton University students to collaborate between peers and professionals from various health disciplines to create an innovative and holistic approach to achieve One Health: the concept that human, animal, and environmental health are interconnected and that collective organized involvement across all fields of expertise (i.e., physicians, veterinarians, research scientists) is necessary to recognize solutions to complex shared health threats. OHMA seeks to provide opportunities for career development, network with professionals in One Health fields, and foster community and communication to create advocates with the goal of creating a transdisciplinary partnership between healthcare, animals, and the environment to advance medicine and public health.
One Health Medical Association is a group of students who are dedicated to the concept that the health of people is closely connected to the health of all species and our shared environment. We support the global One Health Initiative and are dedicated towards unity between professionals from various health disciplines to create an innovative and holistic approach to improve health and make a positive impact on our planet. We serve as a forum for discussion and a source of information on issues facing animals, peoples, and places in hopes of spreading awareness and training Binghamton students to become advocates for these issues. We recognize development as a professional to be our core focus through organized involvement and collaboration between physicians, veterinarians, research scientists, and more to gain insight and more clearly define the complex interconnections between sustainability, global biodiversity, personal ethics, and public health. We welcome all interested students and faculty to join our initiative and invite newcomers to help expand our mission!
This organization is dedicated to help achieve a healthier world by hosting educational and social activities, providing opportunities for advocacy through collaboration, and creating an interdisciplinary space in which students can learn from professionals in One Health fields while creating community and sparking connections with one another. To approach and overcome complex health issues, One Health must be embraced across disciplines hence our organization fosters communication through speaker conferences and symposiums between professionals from diverse health fields: for example, physicians, veterinarians, nurses, environmentalists, dentists, ecologists, public health practitioners, and other health professionals. One Health Medical Association also helps students build connections and get involved in service events that incorporates the inextricably linked human, animal, and environmental health. We seek to increase awareness of One Health through discussing approaches to address region specific (Binghamton) concerns and large-scale societal-level health challenges incorporating several fields of study like Comparative/translational medicine, research, Environmental health and conservation, Veterinary medicine, sociology and more!
