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WHO One Health Initiative Newsletter
Monday 17 October 2022
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment are closely linked and interdependent.
To achieve the One Health goal, we need to mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems.
News Update
One Health Joint Plan of Action launched
Today, a new One Health Joint Plan of Action was launched by the Quadripartite – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE).
This first joint plan on One Health aims to create a framework to integrate systems and capacity so that we can collectively better prevent, predict, detect, and respond to health threats. Ultimately, this initiative seeks to improve the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment, while contributing to sustainable development.
The One Health Joint Plan of Action, developed through a participatory process, provides a set of activities that aim to strengthen collaboration, communication, capacity building, and coordination equally across all sectors responsible for addressing health concerns at the human-animal-plant-environment interface.
Event announcement
One Health Joint Plan of Action - Hybrid High-level Advocacy Event
The OH JPA will be presented during a side event of the World Health Summit. We would like to cordially invite you to this event. You will find further information on our website.
Date & Time: 18 October 2022, 6-9.30 pm
Location: Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum), Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Main Entrance
Registration: Please click here to register for the event
About the WHO One Health Initiative Team
The WHO One Health Initiative acts as the Secretariat for the High-Level Expert Panel on One Health. It also serves as the Secretariat of the WHO Internal Coordination (WIC) on One Health and the WHO Secretariat to the One Health collaboration between FAO/UNEP/WHO/WOAH (the Quadripartite). It also promotes a One Health related research agenda and leverages cross-sectoral solutions to support regions and countries.
Contact us: OneHealthInitiative@who.int
