Restructuring is needed to enable interdisciplinary research that links the health of humans, animals and ecosystems
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Major institutional and cultural change is needed to support an integrated and unified ‘One Health’ approach to research across human and animal health, the environment and agriculture, according to scientific experts asked to advise the European Commission.
According to their report, the evidence for the importance of One Health is clear and unequivocal, but the interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary research required to bring it to life is not happening.
Research is needed to unravel the convoluted pathways that lead to disease, understand the links between environmental factors and health, validate monitoring instruments and develop effective therapies.
As one example of how critical this is, more than 70% of…
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