ABSTRACT
One Health has emerged over the last decade as a key concept guiding international research and policy in the field of zoonoses. In its simplest form, One Health refers to integrated approaches as a means to improve human, animal and environmental health. Integrated in this context means multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral and multi-level approaches designed to reduce and address health risks. One Health has risen up the policy agenda in a dramatic way in the past decade. It has generated much research and policy debate, and a whole series of meetings, workshops, statements, networks, consortia, initiatives and funding flows. One Health was projected to the centre of the policy stage in the context of several avian influenza outbreaks in the early 2000s and large-scale global disease threats with pandemic potential have continued to dominate the research and policy debate. The core of the One Health approach is integrating different forms of expertise and professions, especially across human, animal and ecosystem health.
