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“One Health” is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, and our environment. One Health implementation’s raison d’etre is to significantly help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come. 

Leading past One Medicine/One Health physicians—“Giants”:  Before the modern “One Health” era ...

Rudolf Virchow, MD (the father of cellular pathology and coined the term "zoonosis")

“Between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines--nor should there be.  The object is different but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine.” 

Vichow's Contributions to Veterinary Medicine: Celebrated Then, Forgotten Now https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10810984/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Virchow

 

William Osler, MD (Father of Modern Medicine and founder of veterinary pathology)

From Osler to Olafson. The Evolution of Veterinary Pathology in North America https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3552167/

" ... by 1884, Osler had already left his indelible imprint on the students (both medical and veterinary) he had taught in Montreal, one of whom took over the teaching of pathology in the veterinary college. Another, who followed Osler's example and also studied in Berlin with Virchow, wrote the first book in the English language on veterinary post mortem technique in 1889."

1. Kahn LH, Kaplan B, Steele JH. Confronting zoonoses through closer collaboration
   between medicine and veterinary medicine (as ‘One Medicine’) Veterinaria Italiana
   2007; 43: 5-19. http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2007/43_1/5_19.pdf; and
   the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team.
   2. Bliss, Michael. William Osler, A Life in Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1999.
   3. “The Life of Sir William Osler” by Harvey Cushing, 1925 Ed. (Courtesy Chris
   Lyons, MA, Dip. Ed, MLIS, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University)