One Health
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that optimizes the health of people, plants, domestic and wild animals, and ecosystems.
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. (U.S. Government Definition, established 2017)
To promote the adoption and use of this definition, USG One Health partners are working to highlight it on their public websites. Both sites already include similar language, so this is a minor change to harmonize it across partners. Examples include:
Highlighted Partnerships
We partner with Federal agencies, States, Territories, Tribes, universities, organizations, and others—here at home and around the world—across multiple disciplines and sectors. Our goal is to find the best health outcomes for animals, plants, people, and their shared environment.
Priority Issues
Protecting animal and plant health intersects with some of the most pressing issues of our time: diseases that can spread between animals and people, global population growth, and food security. One Health is key in finding solutions. Learn how we're advancing One Health practice through research, applied science, and other initiatives.
Farm-to-Fork Continuum: Improving Food Safety
APHIS collaborates with numerous Federal, State, and industry partners along the farm-to-fork continuum. Our goal is to improve food safety by reducing pathogen transmissions between animals and people.
Webinar Series
We host quarterly webinars on topics of interest to the farm-to-fork community. Watch the recording from our most recent webinar below.
| Date | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 10/8/24 | The Commensal vs. Control: Salmonella in Broilers | Dr. Ryan Arsenault, USDA Agricultural Research Service |
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