One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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This raises questions about the extent to which OH is interdisciplinary, to which actors and in which contexts: to what extent is it a 'top-down' or 'bottom-up; version of interdisciplinarity? Humans and animals share a lot of their biology and, according to the World Health Organisation, over 60% of all known causes of infectious disease are shared between humans and animals.

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What has happened to bring this agenda to the fore in biomedicine and global health, and to be adopted so widely over such a short period of time? OWOH originated in mid-twentieth-century internationalism and the founding of international health agencies such as the WHO. The central area shows the trajectory of OWOH, with its origins in comparative medicine, tropical diseases, and the mid-twentieth-century concept of zoonosis. This enabled the development of OH to be located within a broader and longer historical context than the immediate post-2000 visibility of the term itself. What is the relationship between OH and other interdisciplinary agendas such as food security, what can this tell us about how these agendas are built, and why?

The ideas and terminology of OH have increasingly been used to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation in policy making and government ( CDC 2013; Department of Health 2013; Leung et al. This and similar work on global health ( King 2004; Scoones and Forster 2010), translational medicine ( Yaqub and Nightingale 2012), biosecurity ( Dobson et al. Just as with OH and translational medicine, this mutual deployment continues older collaborative connections: advocates of VPH played key roles in mid-twentieth-century WHO and FAO programs to alleviate world hunger ( Bresalier et al. However, by doing so, it cannot engage with how OH has been mobilized beyond this particular context, nor its relationship with scientific and medical practice more generally. While initially OW was articulated in the context of international relations and the formation of the UN, the idea was also instrumental in the formation of the international health agencies WHO and FAO ( Brockington 1958; Staples 2011).

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Of the Helmholtz Club, South-Californian Seedbed for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience, and Its Patron Francis Crick. It also investigates OH as an example of the increasing popularity of interdisciplinarity across changing academic, professional, and policy landscapes of the early twenty-first century.In 2004, following the SARS outbreak and as the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was spreading and causing widespread concern, a series of meetings themed on “One World, One Health” (OWOH) were organized, held initially in New York but subsequently at international locations such as China and Brazil. Having already introduced OH, this chapter will now outline the meanings, histories, and disciplinary origins of several terms that actors have used alongside or instead of OH to describe their aims and activities, illustrating the varying ideas that sit together under the OH umbrella. Did you know that studying giraffes has been helpful both in managing both asthma and the treatment of brain injuries? Getting a ECG on the 150kg heart of a humpback whale was instrumental to keeping patients with cardiac failure living longer.