WORKSHOP | December 21st 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
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New developments in One Health science and practice offer significant potential to improve prevention and control of zoonotic and vector borne diseases. Moreover, the new approaches offered by One Health for addressing problems at the human-animal-environment interface also apply to biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods, and health and well-being along with other Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, health, conservation, and sustainable development can be addressed together, which will improve the efficiency and reduce costs of interventions.
These One Health developments have only begun to be incorporated into university curriculums or text books in human and veterinary medicine, public health, natural resources management, and other fields. Also, many are published as research findings and are not yet fully adapted to nor described with terminology or examples familiar to health, conservation, or development researchers and practitioners.
This workshop is intended to fill this gap by providing veterinary and other health and wildlife conservation scientists and professionals the opportunity to learn and begin employing these new approaches in their work.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the workshop participants will become familiar with the following:
1. Historical background, similarities and differences between, and current development status of integrated health-environment fields, including Ecosystem Health, Ecohealth and Planetary Health, associated with One Health.
2. Fundamental principles of One Health applicable to addressing research and intervention challenges of emergence of zoonotic and vector borne diseases and associated challenges such as antimicrobial resistance, insecticide resistance, livestock-wildlife disease transmission.
3. How these problems and their solutions also apply to biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods, and health and well-being along with other Sustainable Development Goals.
4. Prominent case examples of zoonotic diseases and disease outbreaks, as well as related chronic disease problems, described from a One Health perspective.
5. Most recent development guidelines, procedures and protocols for One Health interventions and remaining gaps and needs.
6. Current directions and pathways being undertaken internationally and in Southeast Asia to address these gaps and needs.
EXPECTED BENEFITS FOR THE AUDIENCE
It is expected that workshop participants’ will benefit as follows:
1. A clearer understanding the scientific fundamentals and application of One Health in practice.
2. A deepened understanding of One Health that will allow participants to further incorporate new thinking and methods in their work, and thereby improve outcome of their research and interventions.
3. An increased capacity for cross-disciplinary thinking providing a basis further collaborative research and action One Health.
4. An increased capacity for more effectively framing research problems and interventions.
5. An improved capacity to design, plan and manage projects.
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