Revasia

From One Health Theory to Reality: Practical challenges, impact of One Health initiatives and gaps in research

One Health is a multidisciplinary approach to achieve optimal health for people, animals and the environment through local, regional and global research collaboration. Particularly in Southeast Asia, One Health has gained much more focus due to the rise of cross-species epidemics such as SARS, avian influenza, and Nipah virus. With 70% of emerging diseases being of animal origins, this has become a crucial issue for Southeast Asia due to increasingly high urbanisation rates and dramatic expansion of livestock production. However, implementing One Health research and intervention at local and regional levels is facing many challenges in terms of institutional support, human capacity, and resource availability. 

Technical objectives of the workshop aim at providing information on the proof of concept, the impact/added value of One Health implementation in the field, identifying practical challenges linked to implementation of One Health concept and identifying gaps and needs for One Health research.

The workshop will cover 3 main topics:

1. One Health surveillance;
2. One Health/EcoHealth research at the wildlife/domestic animals/humans interface
3. Antimicrobial resistance: a One Health challenge.

The workshop will be organised at the Melia Hotel, 44B Ly ThuongKiet street, Hanoi, Vietnam from 13 to 15 October 2014 as joint collaboration among the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), The National Institute for Veterinary Research (NIVR), The French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD)and the GREASE regional network in partnership; the British High Commission Singapore (BHC), the Southeast Asian One Health University Network (SEAOHUN/VOHUN) and Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN), and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

See Séminaires / Ateliers for more information.