One Health Social Sciences (OHSS)
Update:
December 2021
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Dear OHSS Friends and Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to remind the world of the need for coordinated multisectoral approaches and responses to pressing public health issues.
Since its inception in 2018, the OHSS Initiative has expanded awareness about OHSS among thousands by creating a platform for knowledge exchange and other actions to empower global researchers and citizens to use One Health concepts in their community initiatives. By building awareness of the links between human, animal, and environmental health and social science concepts, OHSS promotes innovative approaches and interdisciplinary collaborations, and builds capacity through the development of future decision makers.
This year we have expanded our network in the social sciences realm. The new Work Group efforts will provide opportunities for true integrated action.
Stay tuned for information about our upcoming first OHSS meeting of 2022
Wishing you a happy and healthy new year!
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OHSS Work Groups: Get involved!
The OHSS Small Work Groups aim to support the mission and vision of OHSS by joining people from different disciplines to actively contribute to global promotion of the One Health concept with links to social science approaches.
As a specific opportunity for active engagement, OHSS is forming Work Groups to engage professionals and to provide leadership opportunities. Current OHSS Work Group Topics include:
1.Climate change
2.Food security
3.Infectious diseases
4.One Health Policy
5.Pandemic Control
Work is underway to identify Work Group goals for the next year.
If you are interested in joining a work group, please send a message to [email protected] with WORK GROUP and name of the topic in the Subject.
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Change in OHSS Leadership
In 2017 Laura Streichert, PhD, MPH, Jennifer Ida, MS and Lisa Webb, Psy.D, MBA, MPH, MS, with support and encouragement from Dr. Cheryl Stroud and the One Health Commission (OHC), launched the One Health Social Sciences Initiative to enhance opportunities for social scientists to interact with other professionals working in the One Health arena. After 4 years of OHSS leadership, Laura will be stepping down from the leadership team to focus on a project that was 'sparked' by OHSS.
Laura met Ms. Aisha Nankanja, a sociologist based in Uganda, on an OHSS zoom call. Aisha wanted to apply OHSS principles to the problem of improving access to water for poor communities in Uganda. Working across the internet during the early stages of the pandemic they created a community service organization in Uganda called Rural Water Initiative for Climate Action (RWICA) that works toward a vision of, “A world where rural communities live and prosper in harmony with nature to meet their water needs and build resilience to climate change.”
"OHSS has opened up a new opportunity that has greatly enriched my life personally and professionally," says Laura. "I am grateful for the opportunity to work with so many passionate people doing amazing work to build awareness of the importance of connecting social sciences into effective One Health strategies on the ground." For more information about RWICA, contact Laura at [email protected]
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From the OHSS
Webinar Library
Presented June 22, 2021
Speakers:
- Deborah Nadal, Medical Anthropologist, U Glasgow, and
Abi T. Vanak, Ecologist, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
Dog mediated rabies in India continues to be an important public health concern for many reasons including belief in alternate systems of medicine and poor understanding of the dynamics of disease in dog populations. In Western India, the socially and economically marginalized Devipujak community worsips the goddess Hadkai Mata to seek protection from rabies and, at the same time, from caste discrimination. One Health must aim not only at eliminating zoonotic diseases, but also at creating societal wellbeing and achieving justice for humans and animals.
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Spreading the Word about OHSS
On 30 November 2021, Dr. Verónica Ormea, a member of the OHSS Leadership Team based in Perú, gave a presentation at the One Health LATAM conference on La experiencia en One Health Social Science Initiative
To listen to Spanish language recordings from the OHSS Una Salud en Latinoamérica webinar series, see the OHSS Webinar Library
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Suggested OHSS Reading
Looking for examples of OHSS in action? Check out these papers, recommended by the Leadership Team:
Séverine T, Darryn LK, Simpson G, Van Rooyen J, Marcotty T, Gabriël S, Dorny P, Boelaert M, (2021) Perceptions and Practices of Dog Ownership and Rabies Control at a Human–Wildlife–Domestic Animal Interface in South Africa, Anthrozoös, 34:2, 281-302.
Segata J, Beck L, Muccillo L, Beyond Exotic Wet Markets: COVID-19 Ecologies in the Global Meat-Processing Industry in Brazil. eTropic 20.1 (2021) Special Issue: Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics. pp 94-114.
To listen to Dr. Segata's 2020 OHSS webinar, see:
Do you have a paper you would like to share with the OHSS network? Please send a message to:
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If you would like to recommend someone for an OHSS Webinar, please send a message to: [email protected]
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Thank you for your interest in OHSS!
2022 OHSS Leadership Team:
Helena Chapman, MD, PhD, MPH
Bernardo Moreno, MD, MSc, PhD
Verónica Ormea DVM, MSc
Séverine Thys, PhD
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The OHSS is an Action Team of the One Health Commission (OHC)
OHSS Mission
To strengthen the network of scientists and practitioners who incorporate concepts and methods of
social sciences into their research and work in One Health.
OHSS Misión
Fortalecer la red de investigadores y profesionales que incorporan conceptos y métodos de las
ciencias sociales en sus investigaciones y trabajo en “Una Salud”.
Your donation to the OHC, no matter how small, can help keep our programs, like OHSS, going.
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