One Health security lessons from a year-long webinar series on international COVID-19 response

Caroline R M Kennedy; Yuri Bruinen de Bruin; Anne-Sophie Lequarré; Rebecca T Ackerman; Jill Luster; Tiffany M Tsang; Kari D McInturff; Cassandra P Carter; Richard Pilch

doi:10.1186/s42522-022-00071-0

One Health security lessons from a year-long webinar series on international COVID-19 response

One Health Outlook. 2022 Oct 8;4(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s42522-022-00071-0.

Authors

Caroline R M Kennedy¹, Yuri Bruinen de Bruin², Anne-Sophie Lequarré³, Rebecca T Ackerman⁴, Jill Luster⁵, Tiffany M Tsang⁶, Kari D McInturff⁴, Cassandra P Carter⁴, Richard Pilch⁵

Affiliations

¹ The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, USA. ckennedy@mitre.org.
² Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Space, European Commission, Security, and Migration, Geel, Belgium and Ispra, Italy. bruinendebruin@osha.europa.eu.
³ Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Space, European Commission, Security, and Migration, Geel, Belgium and Ispra, Italy.
⁴ Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington DC, USA.
⁵ Middlebury Institute of International Studies, James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, California, USA.
⁶ The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, USA.

Abstract

Following the principles outlined by the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's International Biosecurity and Prevention Forum, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies cohosted a webinar series from April 2020 to January 2021 on COVID-19 management across Africa, Europe, and North America. We provide here an overview of the webinar series and discuss how lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and debated during the webinars can be used to bridge One Health with biological threat-driven health security. This report can be used to inform recommendations for future One Health security approaches to strengthen global capacity and multidisciplinary cooperation.

Keywords: COVID-19; Information sharing; One health security; Pandemic preparedness; Response.