INVITATION

Greetings from the Department of Community Medicine, S S Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davanagere. We are extremely delighted and honoured to invite you to the 4th Karnataka state Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) on 20th and 21st September 2024 to be held at our institution. The theme for the conference is 'One Planet, One Health'. The conference will be preceded by Pre-Conference workshops on 19th September 2024.

The conference intends to provide insights about the collaboration of different sectors under one health. We cordially welcome you all to the events and look forward for your active participation and support.

The department of Community Medicine, S S Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre has been set up in the year 2006 with the aim to provide preventive, promotive and curative community care and research. The department is well known for its quality research publications in National and International Journals and community care services especially in the field of malnutrition, NCDs and cancer screening programmes in association with SS care trust.

Theme - One Planet, One Health – Connecting Humans, Animals and Environment for Global Harmony
One Health is an approach in designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.
One health approach is critical to promote risk-reducing habits and attitudes, and to support early detection and containment of disease threats in the animal-human-environment interface. There is a requirement of Government officials, researchers, academicians and workers across sectors at the local, national, regional and global levels to implement joint responses to these health threats.
The areas of work in which One Health approach is particularly relevant include:

• Food and water safety
• Emerging and re-emerging diseases
• Anti-microbial Resistance
• Environmental sector
• Nutrition
• Control of zoonoses

Our conference will provide public health specialists from across the country a platform to share their ideas and experiences and collaborate towards a global harmony.