One Health Publications
One Health Approach: Pork industry prepares for H5N1
May 22, 2025
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At the heart of this preparation is the One Health philosophy—a framework recognizing the inseparable connections between human health, animal health, and environmental conditions. As Dr. Fowler explains, “We can’t just live in our silos… we have to look at it simultaneously.” This approach proves especially relevant for influenza, where transmission can occur between species sharing environments. For producers, this means evaluating biosecurity measures with fresh eyes—repairing bird netting, addressing structural vulnerabilities, and carefully managing movements between facilities. Even with the swine industry’s already stringent protocols, experts emphasize that pathogens evolve rapidly, necessitating continuous learning and adaptation. …”
An analysis of One Health timeliness metrics across multisectoral public health emergencies in Uganda | Communications Medicine
May 22, 2025
Abstract
Background
Timeliness metrics offer countries a framework by which to assess and optimize speed in outbreak detection and response times. This study analyses the One Health timeliness metrics for multisectoral public health emergencies in Uganda to identify and explore factors influencing outbreak performance.
View PublicationThe Pandemic Agreement is a Landmark for Public Health | TIME
May 22, 2025
“… The agreement also proposes a “one health” approach to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. This takes into account the interconnected nature of human, animal, and environmental health. Although the current risk to humans is low, H5N1 avian influenza still very much has pandemic potential. A “one health” approach can help prevent and minimize spread within and across different species, and ultimately reduce the risk of further zoonotic spillover into humans. This type of approach is also important for other health challenges, from antimicrobial resistance to food safety.
The Pandemic Agreement is cause for optimism in these otherwise challenging times for global health.”
View PublicationOne Health Happenings April/May 2025
May 22, 2025
Volume 12, No. 4, Released May 21, 2025
Sharing news gathered during late April, early May 2025
Pigs, Pets, and Public Health- Texas Tech University Press
May 21, 2025
By Ronald D. Warner, DVM, MPVM, PhD
“A veterinarian is arguably the most broad-based medical practitioner, a “One Health” provider. Such a practitioner understands the intersections and overlap of animal health, human health, and the shared environment between the two. Pigs, Pets, and Public Health captures the multi-faceted expertise that such work requires and shows us how rural communities prepare individuals well for it. …”
View PublicationHealth and Nanoplastics, and One Health
May 16, 2025
Scoping the Risks of Micro- and Nano-Plastics Global Health, Human Reproduction and Possibly Wider Implications*
Addressing the Problem: Five Approaches for Solutions |
- Material Sciences & Innovation
- Toxicity Regime & Regulations
- Multilateral – diplomatics, etc.(Busan, industry)
- One Health
- Public Campaigns (Cf: smoking)
N.B. Future of the Human Race (Evolution)
Plastics Links with One Health (1)
Interconnectedness: One Health emphasizes the shared risks and benefits
across human, animal, plant and environmental health – MNP moves across all
four
- Collaborative Approach: It requires cooperation and communication
among various disciplines, including medicine, veterinary science, biology and
environmental science – MNP prevalence in each field increasing
- Disease Prevention: One Health focuses on disease outbreaks by clarifying
the underlying factors leading to their emergence – MNP new cause
- Zoonotic Diseases: It addresses zoonotic diseases: diseases that can spread
from animals to humans – MNP now from humans to animals, plants, etc.
- Antimicrobial Resistance: One Health tackles antimicrobial resistance, a
growing threat that impacts human and animal health – MNP now major
factor in AMR
Plastics Links with One Health (2)
- Food Safety: It promotes safe food systems by considering he health of
animals and the environment involved in food production – much of it more
and more MNP infested
- Environmental Health: One Health acknowledges the importance of a
healthy environment for human and animal health, including the impact of
climate change and pollution – MNP “pollution”
- Ecosystem Health: It recognizes that healthy ecosystems are essential for
overall health and well-being, including the health of humans and animals and
plants–MNP in ocean life, animals, plants and trees (e.g. soil
vectors ); unknown long-term effects
Plastics and One Health (3)
- Global Health Security: One Health plays a crucial role in
strengthening global health security by addressing shared health
threats one of which is increasingly clear includes MNPs
- Sustainable Solutions: It aims for sustainable solutions that benefit
all three aspects of One Health – human, animal, and environmental
– MNP is a new agenda for One Health – urgently needed
Examples: www.algenesislabs.com (Soleic) and other biomaterials
(e.g. Bloom Biorenewables, DSM-Firmenich, Tidal Vision, Pulpex,
Danimer, GF Biochemicals, Synonym, Hyosung (sugarcane),
L’Oreal (95% bio-based 2030), etc.
View PublicationTO: The Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States – PLEA for Health & Human Services (HHS) reform May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
TO: The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
RE: One Health Initiative Team PLEA via (21) Kahn-Kaplan-Monath (@OneHealthNews) / X (back-to-back Tweets) May 12, 2025:
- Hasty retreat is essential to partially salvage President Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again!!” goals. Mr. President, we urge seeking scientific re-direction from remaining traditional public health and biomedical research experts at CDC, FDA, NIH, USPHS, USDA and academe.
- HHS policy “Making America Sick again!” Massive layoffs with misinformed, misguided anti-science, unconventional restructuring is antithesis to One Health concept-approach, i.e. “help[ing] protect and/or sav[ing] untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”
Respectfully submitted by,
One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team:
Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Thomas M. Yuill, PhD ▪ Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD ▪ Becky Barrentine, MBA ▪ Richard Seifman, JD, MBA
About
The One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment. The synergism achieved will advance health care for the 21st century and beyond by accelerating biomedical research discoveries, enhancing public health efficacy, expeditiously expanding the scientific knowledge base, and improving medical education and clinical care. When properly implemented, it will help protect and save untold millions of lives in our present and future generations.
“May there never develop in me the notion that my education is complete but give me the strength and leisure and zeal continually to enlarge my knowledge.”
– Maimonides –

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Please see MONOGRAPH in Veterinaria Italiana
“One Health – One Medicine”: linking human, animal and environmental health
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History of the One Health Initiative team and website (April 2006 through September 2015) and the One Health Initiative website since October 1, 2008 … revised to June 2020 and again to date February 2021
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Vaccines for zoonoses: a One Health paradigm
SciTech Europa Quarterly (March 2018) – Issue 26
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Pan European Networks SciTech Europa Quarterly
SciTech Europa Vaccines for zoonoses: a one Health paradigm – Pages 227-229 (Read PDF) “One of the One Health Initiative team’s co-founders and leaders is an internationally-recognized eminent physician…
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