One Health Day

International One Health Day is celebrated every year on November 3. The goal of One Health Day is to build the cultural will necessary to see change in how planetary health challenges are assessed and addressed. One Health Day will bring global attention to the need for One Health interactions and allow the world to ‘see them in action’.  The One Health Day campaign is designed to engage as many individuals as possible from as many arenas as possible in One Health education and awareness events and to generate an inspiring array of projects worldwide. Events do not have to fall right on November 3 but can occur anytime during the calendar year. Event leaders are encouraged to register their events on the One Health web page to ‘get on the map’. Who is involved? International and national human health, animal health and environmental health organizations, public health professionals, non-governmental organizations, World Health Organization collaborating centers, universities and corporate and private partners Why One Health Day?  Raising Awareness of the One Health approach is the purpose of this observance. Activities and events around the world will give scientists, practitioners and advocates a powerful, unified voice for moving beyond current provincial approaches to emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, and many other problems, to a holistic, trans-disciplinary default way of doing bu...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Consumer Health Health Professionals K-12 Outreach Public Health Source Type: news