One Health Publications

• Improving data analysis to enhance early warning: Enhance capacity for rapid analysis, modeling, baselining, forecasting, and reporting to monitor and evaluate the health threat landscape, using a One Health approach, and improve early warning capabilities.
• Strengthening the public health workforce
• HHS will recruit, train, and sustain a robust, flexible, permanent cadre of essential critical health infrastructure workers, public health laboratory scientists, technicians, and data quality managers to support surveillance and response testing and reporting and support the recruitment of One Health experts and dedicated animal and environmental disease epidemiologists, who are critical frontline workers for human and animal disease control at relevant state and territorial agencies and departments, in all 50 states.

The interdisciplinary approach to human, animal and environmental health is gaining traction in teaching and research, but the field still struggles against institutional silos.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

One Health is “the main approach for addressing the complex health challenges facing our society, such as ecosystem degradation, food system failures, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance”.

Among other actions, the Action Plan envisions the development of an implementation guidance for countries, international partners, and stakeholders, including civil society, professional associations, academia, and research institutions.

Heightened attention to One Health is far from “Mission Accomplished” but the World Bank and UN agencies have come forward with strongest call yet for pandemic prevention

“In the midst of all of the bad news – war, inflation, food insecurity, and COVID – there is a sliver of potentially good news that can have important benefits for all: The renewed focus on the prevention of future pandemics – and it’s happening in the midst of renewed attention to One Health as a driving concept in global public health. …”

By *Richard Seifman, JD, MBA — October 25, 2022  in Health, Society

*Member One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team:

Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ *Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH ▪ Thomas M. Yuill, PhD ▪ Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD ▪ Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD ▪ Becky Barrentine, MBA ▪ Richard Seifman, JD, MBA  *Deceased November 6, 2020

History of the One Health Initiative team and website

Date:  October 23, 2022

More, SEE:  https://conta.cc/3MYLt4I

This message is shared by the One Health Commission.

Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD

Executive Director

cstroud@onehealthcommission.org

“… These events highlight the importance of a One Health approach to design relevant, feasible and implementable solutions to prevent, mitigate and respond rapidly to future outbreaks. …”

“Conclusion

Infectious diseases will continue to emerge, especially RNA viruses such as influenza A and coronaviruses, which have the propensity to mutate and/or recombine among strains affecting multiple host species.

History shows that the world has failed to heed the lessons from past EIDs.

Despite Malaysia having fought many outbreaks such as Nipah, avian influenza, SARS, EV71 and Covid-19, it is imperative that we build a better framework based on One Health approach to respond rapidly to the next outbreak and pandemic.”

“A One Health approach is being used to manage the epidemic response.”

“… The Strategy recognizes that a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary One Health approach to the national biodefense enterprise is necessary to counter biological threats effectively and efficiently. …”

“… Taking advantage of cutting-edge laboratory techniques and the latest in behavioral science, “One Health” multi-sectoral approaches will help reduce the risk of disease transmission at the human-agriculture-ecosystem interface. And across food systems, from farm to table, digital tools will bring new improvements to food availability, access, stability, quality and safety, and nutritional outcomes, all while promoting inclusive agriculture-led economic growth. …”

 Abstract

Current economic, social, and environmental trajectories within most world regions are unsustainable, whereas the One Health movement appears as a conglomeration with many different players and often uncoordinated actions. We explore the options to increase cooperation and systemic strategies to improve the impact on people and politics.

Methods: Starting from the websites collected by the One Health Commission (OHC) and the One Health Initiative (OHI), we identified 291 websites of One Health organizations (as of 29 July 2022: 126 Civil Society Organizations, 135 academic, and 30 governmental organizations) and searched for organization, transparency, and focus of work, using MAXQDA 2022 for a mixed-methods analysis.

Results: Looking at the organizations’ websites, we found significant structural deficits: Although 63.2% refer to One Health in the organization’s name and almost all list a task profile, concrete projects for the years 2021/2 seem rare or not reported, including publications and especially budgetary information. The kind and number of members are published only by 46.2%. We observed further dominance of US-based organizations, veterinarians, and physicians among the individuals named. The social sciences – sociology and economy in particular – are underrepresented.

Conclusions: The World Bank called already in 2010 for a permanent system of international One Health surveillance and response instead of ‘prevailing temporary arrangements and uncoordinated duplication of efforts.’ Bottom-up and top-down: coordinated action from both sides is essential to secure long-term success. Innovative ideas are often conceptualized bottom-up; supportive leadership carrying forward and stabilizing initiatives is mandatory to secure a long-term perspective and permanent progress. Therefore, we call for a global One Health Communications Alliance to enhance synergy and collaboration, administrated by an adjunct close to the UN Secretary-General in a “force multiplier role”. This office may be inaugurated in a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on One Health.

Provided by:

*Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Laaser DTM&H, MPH

Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University

POB 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany

E-mail: ulrich.laaser@uni-bielefeld.de; laaseru@gmail.com

Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5889-4471?lang=en

South Eastern European Journal of Public Health www.seejph.com

*Dr. Laaser is a prominent physician One Health leader who collaborates with the One Health Commission (OHC) and the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team (OHI).

” This opinion was first published in Health: A Political Choice – Investing in Health For All, A Global Governance Project publication published by GT Media Group Ltd

The high-carbon, throwaway economic models that built our societies have also caused great harm to the environment and the biodiversity it hosts – the very basics we really upon to live. Our economic system has made the planet sick. Now it is making us and other species sick.

However, if governments make the political choice to follow a One Health approach as part of broader systemic transformations to end the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, we can heal the planet and ourselves.

The health benefits of the natural world are incalculable. Nature gives us breathable air, drinkable water and productive soils. Nature gives us medicines, traditional and new. Nature provides a buffer against emerging zoonotic diseases. Time spent in nature improves health outcomes across the board, from stress to hyperactivity.  …”

News from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences – Colorado State University (USA)

“… By now One Health is a concept that all within the veterinary field—and many beyond it—know well: the inextricable relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. Redding, whose own National Institutes of Health-funded research has focused on the use of antibiotics and the impact of harmful and helpful microbes on livestock, pet, and human health, will be exploring all of those components in a few projects with tight links to the Center, in collaboration with the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. …”

GREEN PLANET

“A healthy environment is not only a key ingredient for human health and well-being, but also a foundation for One Health since the health of humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment and ecosystems are closely linked and inter-dependent,” says Cristina Zucca, who coordinates work on pollution, environment and health at UNEP. “This calls for action at the individual and policy levels to create a healthy environment that promotes mental health.”