One Health Including and Beyond Zoonoses

Dear Colleagues,

Zoonotic infectious agents causing morbidities and mortalities are abundant both in animals and humans. In the broader context of the ‘One Health’ approach that encompasses the human–animal–environmental health triad, there are numerous systemic-level nexus interactions requiring multiple disciplines of scientific inquiry. There is a need to prioritize strategic prevention, management and control of prevalent and emerging zoonoses, including communicable diseases affecting both humans and animals across jurisdictions around the world on a wide scale, from one-on-one transmission to pandemics. Several impacts on the health and wellbeing of people and animals and their environment also require attention, especially considering the increasing climate change threats affecting the balance of this triad. These aspects have enormous common ground with respect to scientific knowledge and their cross-disciplinary interactions and strategic 'collective' role in combating the ever-increasing burden of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the ageing human population and enhancement of the animal–human–environment 'triad' relationship that is conducive to creating healthy living systems supporting the planet’s sustainability. Recently, a small but increasing interest in exploring One Health issues beyond zoonoses has emerged in the scientific community.

This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on One Health in the broader context, from zoonoses and beyond, with the aim of collecting multidisciplinary knowledge and innovative ideas in the field. New systematic/scoping reviews, research articles, case reports and conference papers are welcome. Papers dealing with policy formation and innovative approaches to widening the scope of One Health aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are also welcome. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, policy brief reports and commentaries.

This Special Issue prioritizes zoonoses, while still exploring other multidisciplinary aspects beyond zoonoses, to comprehensively cover zoonotic and non-zoonotic components of the animal–human–environmental health relationship.

We welcome manuscripts from different disciplines, including medicine and public health, veterinary medicine and public health, environmental health, genomics, epidemiology, policy analysis and implementation science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Prioritization of control of zoonoses in One Health approach;
• Genomics in One Health
• One Health and non-communicable disease/conditions in humans and animals;
• One Health and planetary health/ climate change;
• One Health and the Sustainable Development Goals;
• Policy framework for global/regional/national/sub-national programs of One Health;
• One Health education and curriculum development in high-income and low-to-middle-income countries;
• One Health and health inequity;
• One Health approach to food security and safety;
• One Health for animal welfare and human wellbeing.

Dr. Drona P. Rasali
Guest Editor

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