One Health acknowledges that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected. The effectiveness of One Health approach requires the establishment of cooperation amongst existing groups and networks. It involves applying a coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral efforts to address potential or existing risks originated from the animal-human-ecosystems interaction. Professionals from public health, animal health, plant health and geoscience may join forces to support One Health approach in Chile and Latin America. Such multi sectorial action is essential to address diverse challenges such as emerging infections, chronic conditions, mental health, immigration, and broadly people’s well being, environment and sustainability. But such progress requires new ways of working across programmes and sectors, and new mechanisms of governance to support this cooperation. Thinking Chile Edinburgh sets the platform in which we welcome researchers across the UK to share their experiences and together explore the role of One Health for Latin-American Development.
We welcome papers from all disciplines, focusing on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- ‘Doing’ One Health in the field
- Social science and One Health
- Epidemiology
- (Re)emerging and endemic zoonotic diseases
- Modelling and economics in One Health
- Intervention strategies
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Food safety/ Food Security
- Health seeking behaviours and practices
- Health-care utilisation and access to services
- Barriers to One Health
- One Health and public policy