Decoding One Health
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disconnect among human, environmental, animal, and wildlife health on the one hand, and implementers, decision-makers, and academia on the other hand. This interactive workshop by the Bengaluru OneHealth City Consortium and the echo network, used expert interactions and gamification to engage participants in the world of OneHealth, a strategy to simultaneously address the health of humans, animals, and the environment.
Participants learnt to recognise the interconnectedness amongst human, animal and environmental health, identified the need for and use of current OneHealth strategies, and understood how OneHealth strategies could be used in local communities to improve human and environmental wellbeing.
About the Network
The Bengaluru OneHealth City Consortium is a group of multi-disciplinary scientists, NGO’s, municipal bodies and citizens dedicated to promoting OneHealth through citizen awareness of disease ecology themes, citizen/government participation in science for infectious disease surveillance, and an interdisciplinary approach to studying disease ecology at an urban centre in India.
The Echo Network is a social innovation partnership steered by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. They have built a 800+ strong international community spanning 10 countries that provides a platform of scientific awareness, exchange, and insight to enable people across the world to generate a shared purpose and take action for the sustainability of India and our planet through science and technology.
