Toward One Health: are public health stakeholders aware of the field of animal health?
Motivated by the perception that human and veterinary medicines can cooperate in more ways than just fighting zoonoses, the authors organized a roundtable during the 2013 annual meeting of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). Collaborations between human and animal health sectors were reported to often rise in response to zoonotic outbreaks (during crisis time) and be mainly based on personal networks. Ways to maintain and strengthen these links were discussed.
Swedish Zoonosis Centre, Department of Disease Control and Epidemiology, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala, Sweden.
Fernanda C
FC
Dórea
Unité Epidémiologie, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses), Lyon Cedex 07, France ; Unité d'épidémiologie animale, UR346, INRA, St Genès Champanelle, France.
Céline
C
Dupuy
Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty, Bern, Switzerland.
Flavie
F
Vial
International Society for Disease Surveillance, Brighton, MA, USA.
Tera L
TL
Reynolds
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Judy E
JE
Akkina
One Health; animal health; one medicine; public health; veterinary public health