Two new One Health projects are launched to improve human health

On 3 August 2022, a workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam kicked off two new research projects—the CGIAR research initiative Protecting human health through a One Health approach and the Korea-funded ICT4Health project. These research projects will help improve human health by using the interdisciplinary One Health approach.

The CGIAR One Health Initiative has five work packages:

• zoonoses;
• food safety;
• antimicrobial resistance;
• environment (water and wildlife interfaces); and
• economics, governance and behaviour.

The ICT4Health project has five components:

• conducting a gap analysis of the current registration of transboundary animal and emerging zoonotic diseases;
• establishing One Health transboundary animal and emerging zoonotic diseases surveillance working groups;
• conducting a pilot study for a surveillance and monitoring system using information and communication technology (ICT) responding to transboundary animal and emerging zoonotic diseases;
• deploying tools and methods to improve the surveillance of transboundary animal and emerging zoonotic diseases; and
• developing strategies to improve agricultural extension services and share equal benefits and rights for women through gender-focused interventions.

Photo credit: A Maasai pastoralist taking livestock to drink from the Olkitikiti Dam, in Olkitikiti village, Kiteto, Tanzania (ILRI/Fiona Flintan)