July 3, 2024 

For Immediate Release

Launch of the

9th Annual Global ONE HEALTH DAY

Officially celebrated November 3 each year

and

Announcing the Winning STUDENT EVENTS Team for

ONE HEALTH DAY 2023

Created in 2016, One Health Day gives One Health advocates and practitioners around the world a powerful voice for moving beyond provincial approaches to emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental pollution, food safety, comparative and translational medicine and many other challenges, to a holistic, One Health*, way of thinking, acting and decision making for the benefit of all living creatures.

For 9 years, an annual global One Health Day has provided a venue for organizations, groups and individuals to hold hundreds of events that raise awareness about One Health and the complex challenges it addresses at the interface of animals, plants, humans and the environment. Over 950 events have been registered in celebration of One Health Day in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Event Descriptions and Maps provide impressive examples of how the world is embracing and advocating for One Health.

Anyone, from academic to government to corporate to private individuals, can plan and implement one or more One Health Day events each year. These events do not have to fall right on 3 November but can occur any time of the year. Online registration to get a pin on the global One Health Day map each year is free and free use of the One Health Day fliers and logos in many languages is encouraged. Remember to Register your event to get on the map!!!

In 2023 the One Health Commission and the One Health Initiative Coordinating Team for One Health Day was joined by the global One Health Community in urging international One Health champions to plan, implement, and REGISTER events to raise awareness and understanding of One Health.

With this message a One Health Day 2024 ‘Call to Action’ is issued encouraging more events than ever to be brought forward this year. And, once again, in 2024 there will be one Student Event cash award of $1,000. (See the One Health Day Student Competition webpage.)

Questions about One Health Day 2024 may be directed to your Regional One Health Day Point of Contact. More information about One Health Day is available online at www.onehealthday.org

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Announcing STUDENT EVENTS WINNER for ONE HEALTH DAY 2023

From Awareness to Action:

Engaging Communities in One Health

A student project led by the Standing Committee on One Health of the International Veterinary Student Association Chapter at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in

Pookode, Kerala, India

Each year students are encouraged to form One Health teams with colleagues from different disciplines to envision, plan and implement One Health Day events and, if desired, to enter them into an annual student events competition. The winning team for the 2023 One Health Day Student Events Competition is, for a THIRD time, the Standing Committee on One Health of the International Veterinary Student Association (IVSA) Chapter at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Pookode, Kerala, India. This team of 20 students from 4 different disciplines met all the competition criteria and received the highest evaluation score from the One Health Day Student Events Judges. The title of their 2023 project was From Awareness to Action: Engaging Communities in One Health. As in the past, they celebrated One Health Day throughout the entire month of November. The project included quiz, essay, caption, photography, reels and e-poster competitions, awareness videos, a webinar, surveys on One Health, and social media challenges reaching ages 10 and up including the general public. The Cash Award of $1000 will be provided by the One Health Commission and complimentary registration and travel for one student from the team to attend the 2024 World One Health Congress in South Africa will be provided by the global One Health Community.

Congratulations to this amazing TEAM!!

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*About One Health

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent. The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate changes and contributing to sustainable development. The One Health paradigm forges co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations between animal, plant, environmental and human health arenas, i.e. chemical, engineering and social scientists, dentists, nurses, agricultural/horticulturalists and food producers, wildlife and environmental health specialists and many other related disciplines that fall under its purview.

The reader can review a compilation of organizations that are actively working to advance the One Health paradigm shift and many additional  organizations and individuals that declare support for the concept

Contact:

Cheryl Stroud, +1 984-500-8093 (USA), cstroud@onehealthcommission.org

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This message shared by the One Health Commission (OHC) with its international One Health Network.



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