The SAFE project focuses on the connection between wildlife trafficking and zoonotic disease transmission with the aim to prevent future pandemics. In line with a One Health approach, aimed at finding the balance between the health of people, animals and ecosystems, SAFE understands that protecting wildlife and preventing wildlife crimes is important to protect human health.

White paper calls for enhanced prevention of zoonotic spillover within the triad of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. It advocates for the need to reduce the risk of zoonotic disease spillover at source through improved prevention measures, an approach that is more efficient than relying on disease detection and response.

LOGin is a feature interview series by the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva. Through LOGin, we meet with FAO’s core leadership and discuss a corporate initiative. This month, we met Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General, to learn more about FAO’s One Health Initiatives.

The future of livestock in Ethiopia: Opportunities and challenges in the face of uncertainty report looks out to 2050 and presents alternative scenarios, or plausible portrays, of the future of the cattle sector in Ethiopia. It portrays  possible livestock futures by shedding light on emerging challenges and uncertain disruptive events associated with a transformed livestock sector and by identifying priority areas of action to take today for a sustainable livestock in the long-term.

This free online course is for frontline human and animal health service providers in West Africa.

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.

This course offers an overview of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a global threat to human, animal and environmental health.

FAO with with the Southern African Development Community Secretariat and its Member States held a validation workshop for the Southern African Programme for One Health. The programme provides direction and a long-term vision to achieving an integrated One Health approach in the region.

A Zambian community's battle against an unexpected anthrax outbreak and the collaborative investigation that uncovered its origins.

One Health surveillance should include integrated surveillance for known and unknown pathogens, and include surveillance of drivers of disease emergence to improve prevention and mitigation of spill-over events.

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for improved early detection, risk assessment and warning of events that may have epidemic potential. A coordinated approach across systems aiming to safeguard the health of humans, animals, plants and the environment – a One Health approach – is needed to identify and mitigate the risks from emerging diseases, reduce the impact of infectious diseases and other health threats, and strengthen global health security.

All evidence suggests that the microbiome, an emerging concept referring to the complex ecosystems made up of and by bacteria and other microorganisms, has powerful explanatory value for matters related to human, plant and planetary health.

Rabies has one of the highest case-fatality rates of any disease. However, rabies is also 100 percent preventable, through human post-exposure prophylaxis. Strengthening educational awareness at the community level preferably to prevent exposure, and through mass vaccination of dog populations is a paramount necessity.

This online event The One Health Future We Want Youth Dialogue, was held as part of the World Food Forum in October 2021.

This free online course introduces the concepts of a coordinated response to manage zoonotic disease outbreaks.

FAO collaborated with the Kenya Zoonotic Disease Unit (ZDU) to conduct a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis of the operationalization of the One Health approach in Kenya. As the world grapples with the complex interplay of zoonotic diseases and the looming specter of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), food safety and security, the workshop opened new avenues for collaboration.

Work to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach has seen significant progress in the past year, leaders of three international organizations cooperating across these sectors said, as they expanded their group to include a fourth body, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

FAO and USAID are scaling up efforts to strengthen global animal health security with the aim of protecting human lives and livelihoods while improving agrifood systems and safeguarding the environment. The new funding will assist to implement the Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH-JPA), by enabling countries to sustain, with FAO support, the critical animal health and One Health capabilities developed in over 30 countries in Africa, South Asia and the Pacific, North Africa and the Near East.

Invasive invertebrate species are a major threat to global food security and sustainable agriculture. 

The world has the opportunity to bolster collective and collaborative methods to prevent future pandemics through a universal, inclusive One Health approach, QU Dongyu, Director-General of FAO, said today at the G20 Health Ministers Meeting held in Rome.