What is One Health?
The One Health concept recognizes the complex interconnectedness and interdependence of humans, animals, and the environment that we share. The One Health approach aims to demonstrate the synergistic benefit of closer cooperation between the human, animal, and environmental health sciences, as well as the importance of dismantling disciplinary and professional silos. This work is vital for ensuring a sustainably reconnected approach to defending and enhancing the health of humans, animals, and our shared environment.
Read more: The One Health concept
What shall The Lancet One Health Commission Achieve?
The ambition of The Lancet One Health Commission is to offer a recalibrated understanding of the ways in which contemporary global health challenges are implicated within the complex interconnectedness of humans, animals, and our shared environment, and to provide an approach for harnessing this knowledge to ensure a sustainably healthy future. The Commission’s work will explicate the significance of a One Health approach for policy by engaging transdisciplinary expertise and perspectives from both the public and private sectors. Attention will be directed to infectious diseases, AMR, and non-communicable diseases—the latter of which have often been left out of the discourse on One Health.
Read more: Objectives of The Lancet One Health Commission
UPDATE: The report is now under review.
Why is this important for UiO?
As a leading player within education and research, The Lancet One Health Commission offers an important contribution to the University of Oslo’s engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals and Life Sciences initiative.
The Commission
The Lancet One Health Commission is chaired by Dr. John Amuasi and Professor Andrea S. Winkler. The Commission comprises of 26 Commissioners and several researchers from multiple disciplines from around the globe. Meet the Commission here!
Publications
- Official Announcement of The Lancet One Health Commission
- Calling for a COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition
- One Health or Planetary Health for pandemic prevention? – Authors' reply
- A call for a global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition
- Policy Brief: One Health as a Pillar for a Transformative Pandemic
- Strengthening Health and Climate Co-Benefits (pages 92-93 in “Health: A Political Choice”)
Events
One Health - Reconnecting for Our Future (webinar series)
Webinars from this series have been recorded and can be viewed here.
Partners
Funding and Support
Oslo Secretariat (Centre for Global Health, UiO) - Contact us
Ingeborg K. Haavardsson (Secretariat Leader)
Christina Brux (Commission report coordinator & Commissioner)