When?
19 – 21 June 2023
Where?
In person in Brussels and online
What is One Health and what was the purpose of the One Health EJP Conference?
Our societies face multiple health challenges from current and emerging threats such as antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases crossing between animals and humans, impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. One Health recognises that humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment are inter-linked. The One Health High Level Expert Panel defines One Health as being “an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment are closely linked and inter-dependent.”
The One Health approach requires interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration at all levels of society to address global threats to health across species and ecosystems and also promote sustainable development. Whilst many European and international organisations have already adopted this holistic approach to be better prepared to prevent, predict, detect, and respond to global health challenges – further progress in its wider application is essential.
The One Health European Joint Programme (One Health EJP) is a partnership across the fields of public health, animal health and food safety. Funded under Horizon2020, the One Health EJP brings together 44 institutions across 22 European countries, including the MedVetNet Association.
Since 2018, the One Health EJP funded 30 research projects, in which partner organisations come together to work across sectors and borders, tackling issues in the field of foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging threats. The common aim is to improve the detect-prevent-response capacity of European countries. The One Health EJP will end in September 2023, and the One Health EJP Conference “Collaborating to Face Future One Health Challenges in Europe” gave the opportunity to give back to the community the developed solutions.
The conference provided the opportunity to reflect on the future of One Health, with a particular focus on Europe. This event included presentations by and discussions with high level speakers from influential organisations. We shared what is currently being done and what we can expect from future European One Health initiatives to address the complex challenges our societies face.
In addition, we disseminated the solutions, improved knowledge, and impact that the One Health EJP achieved during the five years of its existence.
Key One Health EJP Resources
For further background information about the One Health EJP integrative and research activities, please access these resources:
Information on Joint Integrative Projects, Joint Research Projects and PhD projects is available here.
Project Impact Brochures provide further details of outputs and outcomes from some projects.
Read the “Analysis of outcomes and uptake of One Health EJP outputs by stakeholders.”
Read the “One Health EJP Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.”
Presentations from the Conference are now available
You can access a wide variety of presentations from the One Health EJP Stakeholder Conference, delivered by various speakers, found here.
The Institutionalization of One Health Workshop followed on from the main conference
Learn more about the purpose and achievements of this workshop by reading this blog post.
This workshop was organised by the leaders of One Health EJP Work package 7 – Sustainability.
The “Roadmap for the institutionalization of One Health” report is now available to read here.
Who joined the Collaborating to Face Future One Health Challenges in Europe conference?
This event brought together European and international institutions and other parties, such as representatives from civil society and the private sector.
Given the focus on outcomes and impact, the target audience of the conference was:
- Departments and executive agencies of the European Commission
- Agencies of the European Union
- One Health and other scientific initiatives
- Associations dealing with human, animal, and environmental health, being they from the private sector, citizen, farmers, or patients associations
- General and specialised press.
Location
The conference was held in Brussels at the Museum of Natural Sciences – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
Celebrating the success of this event
Thanks to all speakers, panellists and participants for making our conference such a success.
Read our blog post about the conference here.
Organising Team
OHEJP Science to Policy Translation:
Annemarie Kaesbohrer – [email protected]
Pikka Jokelainen – [email protected]
Ludovico Sepe – [email protected]
Aura Georgina Aguirre-Beltran – [email protected]
OHEJP Communications Team:
Jennifer Cantlay – [email protected]
Elaine Campling – [email protected]
OHEJP Coordination and Support Teams:
Racha ElMounaged – [email protected]
Support Team – [email protected]
Conference Photos
