One Health news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Researchers may never discover exactly how the current novel coronavirus outbreak began, but they agree that as humans have changed the way they interact with animals and the environment, emerging infectious diseases are rapidly growing in frequency. Accelerating rates of deforestation, human settlements encroaching on forests, global trade and travel, and livestock production are thought to be the underlying drivers of so-called “spillover” events, when diseases jump from animals to humans. With 70% of emerging infectious diseases originating in animals, there is increasing urgency to prioritize the study of zoonotic diseases. Constant mutations jeopardize existing vaccines and treatments.

The One Health movement aims to integrate the efforts of multiple disciplines to improve health for people, animals and the environment. It has become a global effort, including annual conferences that bring scientists and policymakers together to consider how to control existing and emerging infectious diseases.

NIH’s zoonotic research is based at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana. Part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), it’s a state-of-the-art biomedical facility designed for investigations of highly pathogenic viruses. Fogarty supports studies of emerging global threats through its Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) program, a partnership with the National Science Foundation. The initiative supports efforts to understand the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.

Related Fogarty News and Information

• A One Health Perspective on Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis, an Emerging Human Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 2024
• Leaders call for scale-up in implementing One Health approach
  WHO news, February 29, 2024
• HPAI Influenza Devastating Birds, Marine Mammals in Peru--Study Identifies Concerning Viral Mutations
  NIAID Now blog, September 11, 2023
• Challenges and opportunities of molecular epidemiology: using omics to address complex One Health issues in tropical settings, co-authored by Fogarty Advisory Board member Wondwossen Gebreyes
  Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, July 28, 2023

NIH News and Resources

• Educational training and professional resources
  NIH Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR)
• NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
• NIH Physician-Scientist Workforce Report 2014: Chapter 5 - Veterinarian-Scientists
• Fogarty Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program

Other US Government Resources

• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): One Health
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
• FDA Grand Rounds: The FDA One Health Initiative, June 11, 2020
• FDA Animal Health Literacy: One Health: It's for All of Us
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): One Health

Other Online Resources

• Duke University One Health Training Program
  
• National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): 
• Systematizing the One Health Approach in Preparedness and Response Efforts for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Proceedings of a Workshop, January 2022
• One Health Commission
  
• One Health Global Network
• One Health Initiative
• One Health Platform
• The World Bank: 
• Safeguarding Animal, Human and Ecosystem Health: One Health at the World Bank
• World Health Organization
  • One Health Initiative
  • One health joint plan of action (2022‒2026)
• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE): One Health
  

Updated April 19, 2024