The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks

Arch Public Health. 2017 Oct 26:75:64. doi: 10.1186/s13690-017-0232-6. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Elaborating from the European One Health/Ecohealth (OH/EH) workshop that took place in fall 2016 and aimed to bring together different communities and explore collaborative potential, the creation of European networks focusing on the development of important OH/EH perspectives was a direct output from discussions at the end of some sessions, in particular: - A network on transdisciplinary One Health education. - A network integrating inputs from social sciences in One Health/EcoHealth actions and networks. - A network aiming at translating research findings on the Environment-Microbiome-Health axis into policy making, with a view to make healthy ecosystems a cost-effective disease prevention healthcare strategy. It was also suggested that a European Community of Practice could be initiated in order to support these several concrete networking initiatives, and to help to promote the building of other emerging initiatives.

Keywords: Community of Practice; Cross-sectorial; EcoHealth; Europe; Interdisciplinarity; One Health; Transdisciplinarity.