One Health Publications

News Release 24-Nov-2025

Global One Health index: Expert consensus on synergistic solutions to advancing SDG3

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Journal Center

Overview

Authors:

• Henrik Lerner

• First comprehensive book on ethics in One Health approaches
• Innovating perspective on Bioethics for researchers, healthcare workers , veterinarians, ecologists and policy makers
• Includes an in-depth analysis of possible ethical systems that could be applied to One Health approaches

About this book

This book discusses how bioethics can be advanced and expanded. It explores the possibility to find an approach to bioethics that covers all One Health approaches, i.e. One Health, EcoHealth, Planetary Health or One Welfare, each with their holistic and diverse perspectives. Although some attempts exist to find such an ethics of One Health, this is still very much novel ground. From an analysis of the nature of scientific aims and goals of One Health approaches, this book describes and expands on the variety of ethical issues that emerge in this context. Analyzing previous attempts to establish an ethics of One Health, this book shows that the complexity is greater than what is sometimes suggested. Some issues might be solved using a more traditional perspective on bioethics but other issues need a new take on bioethics. This book analyses what is needed for a pluralistic ethics that covers different species – humans, animals, plants – as well as different levels – individual, population, ecosystem. It discusses whether it is possible to find a bridge between versions of anthropocentric, zoocentric, biocentric and ecocentric ethics. Also, due to the trans- and interdisciplinary nature of One Health approaches, it discusses how this ethical framework will relate to different value and ethical systems around the globe. As a result, this book is a roadmap for future discussions and research in this emerging field, proposing an ethical framework for One Health approaches.

Also SEE: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/stop-screwworm

“New World screwworm (NWS) is a devastating pest. It can cause serious, often deadly damage to animals and people in areas where the pest spreads. While NWS is present in parts of South America—where infections in animals and people continue to occur—it was eradicated from the United States decades ago. In recent years, NWS has moved northward through Central America and Mexico.

USDA is leading an aggressive national, One Health response to keep NWS out of our country.”

To “leave the silos behind” and protect public health, biodiversity, and national security, governments must put One Health at the center of policy and promote cross-sector collaboration

SEE: Video – From one medicine to one health

Eliminating federal health insurance subsidies would strip millions of Americans of healthcare access, strain hospitals, and weaken national public health preparedness

One Health Initiative experts break down the concept and explain why governments must adopt collaborative, cross-sector policies to safeguard public health, biodiversity and national security

Today is the

10th

Annual global

ONE HEALTH DAY

Celebrating 10 years of

One Health Events led around the world

Officially Observed each year on

November 3

From 2016 to 2024 > 1,100 events have been registered!

Event Descriptions and Maps from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 have provided impressive examples of how the world is embracing and advocating for One Health.

(And we know there were ‘many’ more that did not get registered, just like this year so far)

SEE https://conta.cc/4qErNGL

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment