Getting Ready for One Health Approach to Tackling Global Health Insecurity

Abstract

There has been an ever-rising need for multidisciplinary, multisectoral researchers to pull their expertise together in tackling today's mounting global health insecurity. The rising incidences of emerging and re-emerging diseases coupled with the disturbing issue of antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) call for a new approach to tackling these challenges. The One (OH) Health approach to research stipulates that human, animal, and environmental health questions be evaluated in an integrated and holistic manner that would provide a more balanced view of the interconnections of the humans, animals, and the environments, with potential solutions, than would be possible with siloed approach. However, OH approach is complex and faced with considerable challenges to implement as it lacks a uniform guidance and framework to guide implementation. In this Commentary, attempts are made toelucidate more what OH approach is all about, give a succinct history of emergence of OH approach and discuss important factors that need to be considered  before implementing a OH approach in research.