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“… One Health: an important area that remains operational

The CDC’s One Health Office has not been eliminated. CDC continues to describe the office as its lead for One Health activities in the United States and internationally. The office works at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health, particularly in relation to zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness, environmental threats, and information sharing.

The United States also released its first National One Health Framework in January 2025. CDC, USDA, and the Department of the Interior developed the framework pursuant to direction from Congress in the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act.

CDC’s current One Health material continues to describe coordination with USDA and the Department of the Interior, and CDC continues to maintain One Health surveillance and response activities.

The One Health Office should therefore not be presented as a program already dismantled. Its importance is better understood as a reason to monitor whether broader workforce and organizational changes reduce the agency’s ability to connect human, veterinary, wildlife, and environmental surveillance. That concern is not theoretical. Diseases can cross boundaries among people, livestock, wildlife, food systems, and the environment. Effective surveillance depends on communication among institutions that traditionally operate in separate sectors.  …”