One Health Publications

… guided by the `One Health` approach. This transdisciplinary approach applies human, animal and environmental health and social science”.

In the post-relief phase, human, animal, and environmental health need to be a priority

Also see: One Health Archives – Impakter

“…In fact, scientists really haven’t had the tools — or funding — to detect new viruses inside people, says Dr. Gregory Gray, who’s an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

“We probably have novel viruses in North America infecting people who work a lot with animals, especially domestic animals,” Gray says. “We’re just missing them because we don’t often have the tools to pick them up.” …”

The Global Governance of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases (cfr.org)

Council on Foreign Relations

This, in turn, has influenced efforts to advance a “One Health” approach, which brings together human, animal, and environmental health.

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“… A third and related challenge is the limited scope of activities deemed legitimate for the global governance of emerging zoonotic diseases to undertake. These emphasize secondary prevention through disease surveillance and selected measures for preparedness and response, such as diagnostics, vaccines, treatments, clinical care, and biosafety protocols. However, activities to advance primary prevention, including the need to adopt binding regulation of the private sector, is often deemed beyond the scope of scientific and technical cooperation. As researcher John Mackenzie and his colleagues argue, “there is little interest in any form of ‘global governance’: [One Health] is a concept or approach not an association or society.” Instead, the authors support “[identifying] a body that can lead relationship development between major disciplines and foster a true transdisciplinary approach, develop global guidelines and strategies, and ensure sustainable funding is needed, probably in an advisory capacity.” This approach suggests a larger resistance to granting regulatory authority over human activities that directly or indirectly contribute to increased risks of spillover events, including the role of powerful private sector interests such as the food, transport, forestry, and energy industries. The result is a continued focus on identifying and responding to zoonotic disease events but not engaging in primary prevention to stop them happening in the first place. …”

23rd Indian Veterinary Congress & National Symposium on “Advances in Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance and Ensuring Food Safety under One Health Perspective” 3-4 February, 2023 at College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Kamdhenu University, Anand (Gujarat)

SEE: NEWSLETTER ONE HEALTH https://onehealthinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Final-Onehealth-Newsletter-11.02.2023.pdf

LSE Blogs – London School of Economics:  The concept of ‘One Health‘ refers to a unified approach for balancing and optimising the health of people, animals, and the environment.

Sporotrichosis: overview and updates on an emerging zoonotic disease threat · Mpox One Health Response: Considerations for animal testing · Salmonella …

One Health novella for students

by L.H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition

One Health High-Level Expert Panel, January 2023, The Lancet … One Health Approach for the Control of Zoonotic Diseases.

“The objective of this review was to assess the spread of members of the Rickettsiales in Europe from the One Health perspective [76]. This perspective broadens our understanding of disease through animal surveillance and environmental research, with the goals of early disease detection, a better understanding of threats and risk mitigation.”

“Public health challenges—like antibiotic resistance, vector-borne disease and a global pandemic—have eluded traditional public health tools and frameworks. As a result, public health leaders focus more and more on the intersection between the environment and human health. Searching for a better framework to understand emerging threats to human health, many in public health circles have united around the “one health” paradigm. …”

Merck Manuals, a comprehensive online medical reference, has developed a microsite, MerckManuals.com/OneHealth, where visitors can read insightful commentary, watch informative videos, and access relevant association resources related to One Health. One Health is the concept that the health of humans, animals, and the environment are inextricably linked. Therefore, medical and veterinary professionals as well as those in other scientific, health, and environmental disciplines should communicate and collaborate, instead of work in isolation.

“… Along with integrating huge amounts of disparate data into improved computer models, the collaboration will aim to build a community of researchers around a “One-Health (Human-Animal-Environment Systems) approach” they said is needed take on “the complexity, dynamics and the tele-coupling of HAES across multiple spatial and temporal scales and organization levels.” Peterson said he hoped the work also would strengthen the nation’s ability to track disease in birds and other species, as well as safeguard public health and prevent societal disruption. …”

Advancing Health Care in Humans, Animals and the Environment

OHC_WHI_Journal_3rdEditionFinal 12.8.2022

Preface

“Welcome to the third edition of the Writing Heals and Inspires Journal. Following the publication of the first two editions, we are excited to present our first entirely student-led edition of the journal. This edition illuminates student voices on the diverse applications of One Health: the concept that human, environmental, and animal health are all intimately connected and that interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for successful health outcomes in all three sectors. …”

For decades antimicrobials have contributed to the reduction of infectious diseases in humans, animals and plants, saving lives and increasing productivity. Their effectiveness is now in jeopardy. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi are resistant to antimicrobial treatments used in healthcare and in crop and animal production. Given the interconnection of human, animal, plant and ecosystems health, a ‘One Health’ response to AMR is essential.