GRF one health summit: One health - one planet - one future
Public health is not only determined by socio-economic factors, but also significantly influenced by the environment, agricultural food production and animal health. For instance, in the aftermath of a natural disaster the population affected immediately faces health threats not only from injuries suffered but also epidemics prompted by interruptions in sanitation services. A prominent example is currently shown in Japan, where radiological contamination as a consequence of the environmentally triggered nuclear catastrophe puts thousands of people at risk. Global health threats such as the avian and swine influenza impressively demonstrate health related human-animal interference.
Bundled under the term “One Health”, the GRF One Health Summit 2012 addresses health risk management at the interface of human-, animal- and environmental factors and ties the knot to food safety and security. The organisers are triving for intensified collaboration among experts and practitioners from the different sectors and disciplines tangent to such a comprehensive health perspective.
Abstract submissions are encouraged from representatives from the natural, medical, social and technical sciences, practitioners in the health workforce, agriculture, development support and crisis management, International Organisations, public authorities as well as the private sector.
Uniquely, the GRF One Health Summit 2012 addresses the future of truly integrative and global public health risk management in the thematic context of:
- human and animal health
- agriculture and food safety/security
- climate change - urbanisation
- ecosystem goods and services
- water & energy.
Social, cultural, political, economic and ecological determinants will be pinpointed, and methodologies, frameworks and key tools assessed.