The One Health approach aspires to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems. It has been used successfully to strengthen communication and collaboration between the animal health and human health sectors in addressing zoonotic diseases and other health challenges at the human-animal interface. Now, we are increasingly recognizing the complex interlinkages between global and local health, climate, ecological, social, and economic crises. To ensure One Health can be effectively applied to health challenges in these complex socio-ecologic systems, there is an urgent need to evolve and expand its scope and methodologies.
With the support of the University of Surrey Institute for Sustainability’s programme ‘Sustainable development in neglected communities’, our one-day workshop will bring together experts with diverse perspectives, expertise, and experience across a broad scope of methodologies and topics to build systems thinking and other qualitative and participatory methods into applied One Health contexts. This will be an opportunity to open new collaborative avenues for One Health research and programmatic implementation in real world contexts in the UK and internationally.
ORGANISERS
Dr Elizabeth Mumford, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Dr Gianni Lo Iacono, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
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