Virginia Murray - One Health - An interdisciplinary challenge

Professor Virginia Murray

Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection

GRF International Disaster and Risk Conference 2012 - Plenary Session 10:

Linking One Health and the Hyogo Framework for Action 30th August 2012

One Health - an interdisciplinary

challenge

•Reducing key infections

•Minimising the health impact of environmental hazards including radiation, chemicals, poisonings and extreme events such as flooding

• Co-ordinate investigations

and outbreak control

• Laboratory services

• Advise government

• Respond to international

health alerts

194 countries implement

entered into force on

15 June 2007

http://www.who.int/ihr/97892415

96664/en/index.html

http://www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/docs/HFA-brochure-English.pdf

http://www.ipcc.

ch/publications_

and_data/public

ations_ipcc_four

th_assessment_

report_synthesis

_report.htm

Thoughts for One Health

•Worldwide, effects of extreme weather events

and natural hazards are apparent, having

increasing significance for human health of

which One Health is a part

•Managing the risks of One Health and other

hazards are an interdisciplinary challenge

•One Health already links to the International

Health Regulations but now needs to benefit

from the Hyogo Framework for Action and its

Post-2015 instrument