One Health Approach Understanding Operationalisation Training

One Health approach short course  appreciates that human health, animal health and the ecosystem health are fundamentally linked up. Worldwide exponential growth in human and livestock populations, changing migration patterns, and environmental degradation have transformed the environment in which human–animal populations coexist. One of the challenges that faces humanity is the spread of infectious diseases that emerge (or re-emerge) from the interfaces between animals-humans and the ecosystems in which they live.  The burden of zoonotic diseases has increased globally over the last few decades, raising concern among governments. Zoonoses are transmitted through interactions between animals, humans and their shared environments. Factors contributing to the increasing burden of these diseases include but not limited to human and animal population expansion, wildlife habitat degradation, international travel and trade, changing farming systems, urbanization, cultural practice poverty and climate change

This training program will help delegates and respectively countries to improve their ability to effectively prevent, detect, respond and recover from disease events and prepare for future threats to public health systems at human-animal-environment interfaces.

Main Training Modules

• The concept of One Health
• Growing need for One Health approaches
• Disciplines engaged in One Health
• Applications of One Health to Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations)
• One Health approach and prevention of zoonotic diseases
• One Health and antibiotic resistance (a One Health challenge)
• One Health and multidisciplinary research
• One Health and legislation
• Establishing One Health technical group
• History of four-way linking establishment
• Operationalization of the national One Health platform in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG)
• Joint risk assessment for zoonotic disease threats
• One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization (OHZDP)
• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – national action plan
• Strategic framework for elimination of dog mediated human rabies
• Integrated national plan for avian and human influenza
• Sustainable development goals as defined by the United Nations
• Examples of how antibiotic resistance spread
• Mapping of the data distribution
• Proposed governance structure
• Modules and steps of joint risk assessment
• Stages and steps of One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization process developed by centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)

Training Evaluation:

Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge and skills and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.