The Berlin principles on one health - Bridging global health and conservation

Kim Gruetzmacher; William B Karesh; John H Amuasi; Adnan Arshad; Andrew Farlow; Sabine Gabrysch; Jens Jetzkowitz; Susan Lieberman; Clare Palmer; Andrea S Winkler; Chris Walzer

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142919

The Berlin principles on one health - Bridging global health and conservation

Sci Total Environ. 2021 Apr 10:764:142919. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142919. Epub 2020 Oct 12.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
² EcoHealth Alliance, 460 West 34th Street - 17th Floor, New York, NY 10001-2320, USA; OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) Working Group on Wildlife, France.
³ Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Kumasi Collaborative Center for Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁴ College of Resources & Environment Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, PR China.
⁵ Oxford in Berlin, Germany; Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, 34 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD, United Kingdom.
⁶ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany; Institute of Public Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
⁷ Natural History Museum, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
⁸ Wildlife Conservation Society, International Policy, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
⁹ Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
¹⁰ Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675 Munich, Germany; Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway.
¹¹ Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA; Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Conservation Medicine, Savoyenstraße 1, 1160 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: cwalzer@wcs.org.

Abstract

For over 15-years, proponents of the One Health approach have worked to consistently interweave components that should never have been separated and now more than ever need to be re-connected: the health of humans, non-human animals, and ecosystems. We have failed to heed the warning signs. A One Health approach is paramount in directing our future health in this acutely and irrevocably changed world. COVID-19 has shown us the exorbitant cost of inaction. The time to act is now.

Keywords: Berlin principles; Holistic health approach; Integrated health approach; Manhattan principles; One health; Planetary health.

MeSH terms

Animals
Berlin
COVID-19*
Ecosystem
Global Health
Humans
One Health*
SARS-CoV-2