One Health Conference – One Health for All, All for One Health

The recent epidemics and pandemics, in particular COVID-19, have made it unmistakably clear that human, animal, plant and environmental health cannot be dealt with separately, but need to be addressed in a ‘One Health’ approach. Their interdependencies need to be better acknowledged and require work at the interfaces in a multisectoral, transdisciplinary and an integrated approach. Mainstreaming ‘One Health’ means that we can better prevent, predict, prepare for, detect, and respond to global health threats at both global and EU level.

In view of this the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety held the ‘One Health for All, All for One Health Conference ’ on the 13th of November, 2023 to take stock together and to discuss the future of ‘One Health’ in Europe.

This event took place at the European Convention Centre Luxembourg (ECCL) in Luxembourg (1, rue du Fort Thüngen, 1499 Luxembourg).

Video recording

• Introduction and welcome
• Opening session
• Session 1: “The triangle of climate change, environment, and health”
• Session 2: “Surveillance and early warning systems”
• Session 3: “Antimicrobial resistance”
• Closing remarks

Meeting documents

• Agenda
• Speakers bio
• Presentations:
  • One Health Surveillance, global perspective and challenges
    Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at the WHO, leading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence
  • One Health early warning systems: global perspective
    Dr. Jean-Philippe Dop, Deputy Director General, WOAH
  • Human animal avian influenza surveillance in the Netherlands
    Dr. Tjalling Leenstra, Head of the National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands
  • One Health impacts of antimicrobial use in horticulture: the emerging threat of antifungal resistance
    Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) 

Resources

• Key note address on the Rabies Eradication project in Thailand
  Professor Dr HRH Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol
• Speech (by video message) by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides 
• ‘One Health for All, All for One Health’ video
• Cartoons
• @EU_Health, @Food_EU, EU Health and Food Safety on LinkedIn
  #OneHealthEU