One Health
Research, Education
and Outreach Centre
Aims and Objectives
Bernard Bett
ILRI
One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre
(OHRECA), Launch, 22 October 2020

Background
Drivers:
• Rising human and
livestock populations
• Land use change
• Socio-economic
changes
• Climate change
• Limited public and
animal health services
Africa faces an increasing threat of zoonoses,
food safety and antimicrobial resistance
V. Dzingirai, Univ Zimbabwe
Thomas Winnebah, Njala University
Kofi Amponsah-Messah, Ghana

OHRECA was established to significantly enhance
human, animal and environment health by:
• Supporting applied research on One Health
• Developing capacity on One Health
• Supporting One Health network initiatives, and
• Developing pathways from evidence to policy and practice

Gender and socio-economics: incentives, value chains, impacts, livelihoods, etc.
Management unit
Team Leader: Bernard Bett
Coordinator: Kristina Roesel
Project Managers: Rose Manyu & Stella Ikileng
Communications officers: Geoffrey Luis Njenga & Ekta Patel
Graduate Fellowships: fellowship program; Science communication
Field practitioners: community-based surveillance; value chain actors; lab technicians
Policy makers and mitigation agents: simulation exercises (link to international health
regulations; action plans, contingency plans, disease control policies
EMERGING
INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
NEGLECTED
ZOONOTIC
DISEASES
FOOD SAFETY
& INFORMAL
MARKETS
ANTI
MICROBIAL
RESISTANCE
Lian Thomas Arshnee MoodleyDelia RandolphBernard Bett
Thematic areas
Applied research
Biomedical science: epidemiology, surveillance and diagnostics, disease control, etc.
Environment: climate and other environment drivers, animal waste management, etc.
Capacity building
Integration of
thematic areas:
Work in
common
systems,
integrated
surveillance
systems,
common tools,
environment,
strengthening of
One Health
units, etc.

OHRECA Overview
Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) Food Safety
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Collection of robust empirical economic &
epidemiological data on the impact of
One Health approaches for zoonotic
disease control
• Support needs based research on
endemic zoonoses
• Improve food safety in informal
markets in Africa
• Support behaviour change
interventions on food safety
• Supports studies to identify drivers
of EIDs and generate EID hotspot
maps
• Enhance surveillance and response
to EID events
• Conduct Amuse, KAP, and AMR
situation analyses to guide new
research
• Support refinement of AMR action
plans in selected countries
• Quantifying the
‘Business Case’ for
One Health
• Capacity
strengthening
• Integrated
surveillance systems

OHRECA research and capacity building outputs
Governance
mechanisms
Better human, animal
and environment health
Evidence that counts
Capacity
development
Sustainable control of zoonoses, food safety and AMR
Impact pathway

Communication plan
• Strategically position OHRECA to address One Health activities in
African enabling new partnerships with Europe, Asia and North
America
• Support events and engagements related to One Health activities
which can ensure South-South learning opportunities, including
Global South and North
• Ensure that OHRECA is being highlighted regularly to donors,
partners and key stakeholders

One Health directory for Sub-Saharan Africa
• To engage OH initiatives, policy
and donors
• 291 OH initiatives in Sub-
Saharan Africa mapped so far
• Please engage and contribute!

Visit the OHRECA page on ILRI website
https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/one-
health-centre

National and regional networks:
Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN);
Zoonotic Disease Unit MoH Kenya (ZDU)
Global One Health initiative (GOHi)
One Health Regional Network for the Horn of Africa (HORN)
One Health Units for Humans, Environment, Animals &
Livelihoods (HEAL)
OIE reference laboratories
(i.e. brucellosis and rabies at FLI; salmonellosis at BfR)
FAO reference centres
(i.e. AMR and VPH at FU Berlin)
Food safety
Zoonotic diseases
Antimicrobial resistance
WHO Expert Panels
(i.e. Food safety, zoonoses, Drug policies &
Management)
Global Early Warning and Response System for
Major Animal Diseases (GLEWS), International
Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN),
Regional Animal Health Centres (RAHCs)
Partners & Prospective
Emerging Infectious
Disease