The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks

• Authors: KEUNE Hans; FLANDROY Lucette; THYS Severine; DE REGGE Nick; MORI Marcella; ANTOINE-MOUSSIAUX Nicolas; VANHOVE Maarten Pieterjan; REBOLLEDO Javiera; VAN GUCHT Steven; DEBLAUWE Isra; HIEMSTRA Wim; HASLER Barbara; BINOT Aurelie; SAVIC Sara; RUEGG SR; DE VRIES Sjerp; GARNIER Julie; VAN DEN BERG Thierry
• Year of publication: 2017
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: ARCHIVES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0232-6
• Field: Zoology
• Keywords: One Health; EcoHealth; Community of Practice; Europe; Interdisciplinarity; Transdisciplinarity; Cross-sectorial
• Description: Elaborating from the European One Health/Ecohealth (OH/EH) workshop that took place in fall 2016 and aimed to bring together different communities and explore collaborative potential, the creation of European networks focusing on the development of important OH/EH perspectives was a direct output from discussions at the end of some sessions, in particular: - A network on transdisciplinary One Health education. - A network integrating inputs from social sciences in One Health/EcoHealth actions and networks. - A network aiming at translating research findings on the Environment-Microbiome-Health axis into policy making, with a view to make healthy ecosystems a cost-effective disease prevention healthcare strategy. It was also suggested that a European Community of Practice could be initiated in order to support these several concrete networking initiatives, and to help to promote the building of other emerging initiatives.