19 November 2026 | 14:00 – 15:30 (CEST) | Virtual

This webinar “connects the dots” between France’s One Health Summit (Lyon, 7 April 2026) and FAO’s planned first-ever Global Conference on One Health in Agrifood Systems (2026), translating their goals and key messages into implementable actions for government decision-makers and national food systems leadership. To overcome current gaps, the session will explicitly anchor these One Health milestones in the post-UNFSS+4 implementation agenda, building on the momentum of the UNFSS+4 Stocktake and the Hub’s ongoing work to turn global commitments into practical results through partnerships, financing, and inclusive governance. Designed for policymakers (health, agriculture, environment, and finance) and National Convenors, the session will combine a narrative framed around integrated food–health–environment wins; practical policy recommendations on how to embed One Health frameworks in national food systems follow-up actions; and an “implementation toolbox” segment spotlighting the Quadripartite policy products that could support Convenors on cross-ministerial coordination on One Health.

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

Aims and Scope:

“A healthy and resilient ocean has become a targeted outcome of the United Nations Decade of Oceans for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) https://oceandecade.org/. Surprisingly, the ocean plays hardly any role in the current One Health debates, even though it makes up almost 71% of the planet’s surface, regulates the Earth’s climate and provides nutrient-rich food and at least half of the planet’s total oxygen. While there is certainly debate about the role of the ocean in human or animal health and well-being, this discussion has remained largely separate from a conceptual clarification of Ocean Health. This special edition aims to address this conceptual gap and bring vibrant and needed discussions. One Health action is immediately needed at the global Ocean Health level to identify and characterize existing and emerging health risks, particularly in the field of food safety and security, by building the capacity to collect and analyse diverse data information. There is also a need for integrated research-based recommendations to various stakeholders (e.g. policy-makers, industry, citizens) to identify Oceans Health priorities and to build One Health collaborations. Global needs such as standardisation and novel sustainable holistic ECO-thinking to equitable food production, benefiting justice, health, inclusion and a peaceful sustainable Ocean World. We call for the development of a holistic perspective concerned with One Ocean Health and beyond by acknowledging the complex interconnections between all ecosystems of the “Blue Planet”. …”

One Health Institute

Registration is open for the University of Guelph’s “Mobilizing One Health” micro-credential, which begins its next seven-week session on March 9, 2026. Offered through the One Health Institute and the School of Continuing Studies, this course is designed for professionals to address health challenges at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental sectors.

Why Protecting Nature and Animals Protects Human Health

“The United States was formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO) by President Donald J. Trump on January 22, 2026. Trump signed an executive order giving one-year notice on January 20, 2025. …”

“… Mississippi State’s Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station conducts research to enhance coastal environments and habitats through a One Health approach, recognizing the interconnected health of people, animals, plants and their shared environment. …”

(USA)

The University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and The Bill Gatton Foundation Grand Challenge Team recently established a One Health Initiative. The initiative will bring together research, extension and instruction in One Health and serves as a foundation for launching the future UK One Health Center.

UK is in a unique situation as a land-grant institution and one of eight academic institutions in the U.S. with a full complement of engineering, liberal arts, professional, medical and agricultural colleges and disciplines on one contiguous campus. Having everything on one campus promotes collaborative activities and research projects across the 16 degree-granting colleges and over 200 academic programs at the university.

The Martin-Gatton CAFE is uniquely situated with many years of collaboration not only across the university but also with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Kentucky Department of Public Health, Kentucky State University, Murray State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and Lincoln Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Our college has one of the strongest extension programs in the nation. As one of our three mission areas, extension ensures the dissemination of knowledge from the university to the people of Kentucky. Our presence in all 120 counties allows our extension agents and staff to serve as the primary extension educational arm of UK, disseminating information about One Health topics, research and emerging diseases throughout the commonwealth.

Also see: Our Team | One Health

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

Global Call for Nominations and Applications to Serve on the One Health Commission Board of Directors 

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

This article was originally published on PEAH – Policies for Equitable Access to Health.

IN A NUTSHELL

Public health is a public good and requires public trust to succeed.

Public health is inherently political because the focus is on population health rather than on individual health.

In this article, I will briefly write about the history of public health and will try to explain why the U.S.’s public health policies, particularly its vaccination policies, are deteriorating.