ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how central tenets of the One Health movement, namely collaboration and interdisciplinarity, have become institutionalized in scientific research networks. The characteristics of existing research networks represent the latent capacity of individuals, organizations and regions of the world to understand and respond to emerging and endemic zoonoses. The chapter explores the geographic location, disciplines and relationships of key One Health organizations through the analysis of co-authorship networks related to One Health research in the peer-reviewed literature. Understanding co-authorship patterns and the associated flow of scientific knowledge offers an opportunity to track the degree to which notions of integration between disciplines and regions, as promoted by One Health, have actually taken place in different global and national domains. Scientific knowledge guides the ways in which policy-makers, practitioners and others perceive societal problems and design solutions, offering credibility and justification to policy concepts such as One Health.
