GRF One Health Summit 2012, Davos: Presentation by Senior Coordinator One Health, Emerging Diseases, Food Security - European External Action Service - European Union

1. GRF One Health Summit 2012
One Health – One Planet – One
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19-23 February 2012, Davos

2. GRF One Health Summit 2012
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The One Health Global Network
State of Play after Atlanta 2011
Session Development of a One Health Global Network – Creating added Value
Alain VANDERSMISSEN, DVM
Senior Coordinator One Health
European External Action Service

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A continuum of events…
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• SARS / HPAI / A-H1N1 pandemic 2009.
• The Global Response to Avian Influenza starting 2005.
• IMCAPIs (Beijing, Bamako, New Delhi, Sharm-el-Sheikh,
Hanoi) starting 2006.
• Winnipeg March 2009.
• Stone Mountain May 2010.
• Melbourne February 2011.
• Atlanta November 2011.
• Mexico November 2011.
• Davos March 2012.
• [Bangkok January 2013].

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New context since Hanoi
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• Political commitment e.g. in Asia (ASEAN, APEC)
• Six post SMM working groups are active, across sectors,
institutional affiliation and regions of the world.
• Melbourne and sqq.
– OH success stories (Africa, others).
– OH research.
• OH academic programmes in place or in preparation.
• Involvement of private sector (pharmaceutical,
consulting companies, etc.). Booming.
• Databases, case studies. 4

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Studies, Catalogs,
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Databases

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Future Stone Mountain May 2010
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Consensus of The Stone Mountain
Meeting: “We will have demonstrated
short-term (3-5 years) One Health success
if we’ve…”
Initiated Culture Change
Mutual respect and communication across professions
Increased Visibility
Recognition of value-added for human and animal health
Impacted Political Will and Funding
Demonstrate increased impact with finite funding
Improved Coordination and Collaboration
Surveillance, outbreak response, data sharing

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The Stone Mountain Work
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One Health Training
Proof of Concept
Business Plan
Country Level Needs Assessment
Capacity Building
Information Clearing House
One Health Global Network

8. Commonalities among
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the Work Groups
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1. All are ACTIVE.
2. Most have added many members who did not attend
the SMM. The workgroups are open.
3. Several have secured external funding to conduct
follow-up activities.
4. Most hold regularly scheduled conference calls.
5. All have formed individual “networks”.
6. Most have recognized the compelling need for a
“Network of Networks”.

9. One Health: Gaps
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• Better sectoral balance in existing groups and
networks, between veterinarians and
physicians.
• Environmental and wildlife health aspects
have to be developed and integrated into One
Health.
• Set up and launch a OHGN.
• Governance.
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12. One Health Global
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Network
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• A network of network.
• Ready to be “triggered”.
• Need to structure and coordinate to optimize
and keep up to date.
• Challenges:
– How?; who?
– No boss, no owner. Coordinators, facilitators.
– Flexible.
– Balance between official and non official.
– Global? Regional?

13. OHGN Mission
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Statement
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• To create a global virtual community of like-minded
individuals, around One Health topics, to foster
synergy and action for the betterment of health in
humans, animals and the environment.
• To identify, bring together, share and discuss
information (new investigations, articles, events),
opportunities (grants, funding, employment), and
ideas (strategies, policies, training, programmes and
projects), related to One Health.

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Join efforts
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• One Health Initiative
• One Health Commission
• One Health Talk
• Etc.
• No duplication
• No competition / rivalry /jealousy
• Unite / Give global dimension / Federate key
international organisations and actors around OH
• Sharing ownership

15. OHGN Webportal
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-work in progress-
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Added value of a
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• Unifying the one health community through a
single portal that brings together the wealth
of One Health information available on
multiple websites but often too scattered to
find quickly.
• Global and holistic dimension.
• No ownership; ownership of all; rotating
contributions.

17. OH Governance: Stone
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 One Health should not be “possessed” or “mastered”
 One Health should remain flexible and comprehensive
 One Health can be promoted by various institutions, but
should not be institutionalized
 One Health Global Network
can facilitate this process
Adapted from Dr Carol Rubin

18. OH Governance: Atlanta
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1. Broad international consensus that One Health is a public good,
cannot be owned, and should remain flexible, based on a global
pool of expertise that crosses disciplines and countries.
2. There are a number of One Health events, initiatives and programs
worldwide. But the absence of coordination can lead to a
dissonance and the existence of out-dated information, and thereby
weaken the One Health movement.
3. The Atlanta meeting worked hard to identify the most adequate
vision of the governance of the One Health movement, globally and
regionally, that would ensure coherence and consistency, and to
develop an implementation roadmap for that vision, with actions,
timelines and accountabilities.

19. OH Governance:
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4. “Right” governance will provide consistency,
cohesion, and an overarching sense of coherence.
5. Not an institution or secretariat; rather, it is “small
‘g’ governance,” that aims to foster and champion
the concepts and goals of One Health, and to act as
facilitator and enabler. It based on an informally
shared leadership.
6. In this particular case, the word “governance” is not
the most suitable. It was suggested that “One Health
Global Guidance Group (3G)” be used.

20. A OH Global Guidance
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• Transition 2012 Sectors
•Human/Public Health
• Global from January 2013 •Animal Health
•Wildlife/Environmental
• A group of 20-25 persons;
Health
•Economic/Social/Develo
pmental aspects
elected? rotating.
Constituency / “institutional”
• Filling a tri-dimensional or not
•Governments (including
matrix: Geographical representation
regional bodies)
•UN-OIE-WB
•USA-Canada •Academia and Think
•Latin-America/Carribean Tanks
•Europe •Civil society including
•Africa-Middle East NGOs
•Asia including Japan
•Australia-Pacific

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Future Key Messages Atlanta
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• One Health is relevant and useful; it is still developing and
emerging, and there is great momentum.
• There is a need to continue to champion OH and influence
decision-makers.
• Clear next steps for moving forward on the OHGN.
• Consensus proposal on developing the OHGGG.
• Agreement to explore the feasibility of expanding the existing
GLEWS platform to more clearly encompass a OH approach.
• Agreement to defined timelines and accountabilities to move
forward on the OHGN and OHGGG.
• The OHGN and the OHGGG are “works in progress,” with great
opportunity for innovation and leveraging of synergies.

22. GRF One Health Summit 2012
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1.So far, we are on track to achieve our Vision of
Success.
2.Simultaneous world-wide escalation of One
Health activities.
3.General recognition that some global
coordination is necessary, while respecting all
OH initiatives.
4.We are in a period of opportunity.
5.Join the OHGN! -become co-owner…-

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Added Value of OH
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• Allowing for a more comprehensive
understanding or health determinants.
• Responding in a comprehensive way –through
multiple entry points- to complex health
hazards or crises.
• Federating, connecting, cross-fertilizing.
• Economies of scale (Pooling knowledge and
resources).

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