title: One health-Transdisciplinary opportunities for SETAC leadership in integrating and improving the health of people, animals, and the environment.
abstract: One Health is a collaborative, transdisciplinary effort working locally, nationally, and globally to improve health for people, animals, plants, and the environment. The term is relatively new (from ∼2003), and it is increasingly common to see One Health included by name in interinstitutional research partnerships, conferences, communications, and organizational frameworks, particularly those championed by the human health and veterinary medical communities. Environmental quality is arguably the least developed component within the One Health framework, but can be guided by expertise within the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). Despite SETAC's long history of tripartite (academic, government, business) interdisciplinary environmental science activities, the term "One Health" is seldom used in SETAC communications (i.e., many of SETAC's activities are guided by One Health, but it is called by other names in SETAC's journals, newsletters, and presentations). Accordingly, the objective of this Focus article is to introduce the One Health concept to the SETAC membership. The article discusses the origins, evolution, and utility of the One Health approach as an organizational framework and provides key examples of ways in which SETAC expertise can benefit the One Health community. The authors assert that One Health needs SETAC and, to be most effective, SETAC needs One Health. Given that One Health to date has focused too little on the environment, on ecosystems, and on contaminants, SETAC's constructive involvement in One Health presents an opportunity to accelerate actions that will ultimately better protect human and ecosystem health. Environ Toxicol Chem 2016;35:2383-2391. © 2016 SETAC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. aaguirr3@gmu.edu.
authors.forename: A Alonso
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Aguirre
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Val R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Beasley
authors.affiliation: Ecological Services, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Augspurger
authors.affiliation: National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.affiliation: Ecological and Biological Sciences Practice, Exponent, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whaley
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Niladri
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Basu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057231:Climate Change; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D017753:Ecosystem; D054750:Ecotoxicology; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health
keywords: Animal; Ecosystem; Ecotoxicology; Human health; Institutions; One Health; Public health; Review