title: One Medicine One Science: a framework for exploring challenges at the intersection of animals, humans, and the environment.
abstract: Characterizing the health consequences of interactions among animals, humans, and the environment in the face of climatic change, environmental disturbance, and expanding human populations is a critical global challenge in today's world. Exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge in basic and applied sciences and medicine that includes scientists, health professionals, key sponsors, and policy experts revealed that relevant case studies of monkeypox, influenza A, tuberculosis, and HIV can be used to guide strategies for anticipating and responding to new disease threats such as the Ebola and Chickungunya viruses, as well as to improve programs to control existing zoonotic diseases, including tuberculosis. The problem of safely feeding the world while preserving the environment and avoiding issues such as antibiotic resistance in animals and humans requires cooperative scientific problem solving. Food poisoning outbreaks resulting from Salmonella growing in vegetables have demonstrated the need for knowledge of pathogen evolution and adaptation in developing appropriate countermeasures for prevention and policy development. Similarly, pesticide use for efficient crop production must take into consideration bee population declines that threaten the availability of the two-thirds of human foods that are dependent on pollination. This report presents and weighs the objective merits of competing health priorities and identifies gaps in knowledge that threaten health security, to promote discussion of major public policy implications such that they may be decided with at least an underlying platform of facts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Dominic A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Travis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sriramarao
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cardona
authors.forename: Clifford J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: Shaun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Srinand
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sreevatsan
authors.forename: Michael P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Murtaugh
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D000818:Animals; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000517:prevention & control; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004777:Environment; D059022:Food Safety; D014943:Global Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D011158:Population Growth; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011640:Public Policy
keywords: One Medicine One Science; emerging infectious disease; food safety; food security; global health; iCOMOS; one health