Governing towards ‘One Health’: establishing knowledge integration in global health security governance

John Connolly

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    Abstract

    Recent global threats (e.g. Ebola, avian influenza, the Zika virus) have
    demonstrated the need for policy-makers to focus on the detection of risks
    at the animal-human interface. Yet epistemic knowledge across these
    domains is not sufficiently joined-up. The article argues that, despite some
    progress, in order for the policy agenda for global health security to
    develop towards a One Health model there is a need for integration across
    public and animal health domains. This article sets out an evaluation
    framework for establishing knowledge integration across these sectors. The
    article concludes that although One Health may seem utopian, given there
    are key challenges when it comes to reaching integration, there are
    important steps that can be taken the short- to medium-term. These
    include reforms to education and training programmes and interdisciplinary
    research collaborations. A key determinant of whether One Health becomes
    a paradigm which frames public policy, and leads to policy and institutional
    changes to enable public value creation and sustainability, is the presence
    of an ‘epistemic community’ that bridges health networks.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)483-494
    Number of pages12
    JournalGlobal Policy
    Volume8
    Issue number4
    Early online date17 Oct 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Nov 2017

    Keywords

    • One Health
    • security
    • governance
    • epistemic communities
    • global
    • disease

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