Decoding and Bridging the Tripartite Components of One Health: Collaborative Strategies for Global Well-being

One Health is an interdisciplinary approach to promoting the well-being of humans, animals, and ecosystems. This tripartite concept of One Health is based on understanding the interconnectedness of these components, founded on the fundamental principle that humans, animals, and the environment form a unified entity with interdependent and multifaceted relationships.

Interdisciplinarity and collaboration between different scientific fields have long been recognized as a prerequisite for dealing with complex problems, such as public health issues. The conception of One Health has brought this linkage of various scientific branches to the forefront, emphasizing the importance of collective efforts in dealing with intricate problems. However, which component of One Health's three needs more research attention?

In the post-COVID era, Public Health faces a web of interconnected problems. These include antimicrobial resistance, communicable diseases, 'modern diseases', zoonotic diseases, and new demands for change in food systems and agricultural production regarding safety and sustainability. The impact of pollutants, climate change, and ecosystems on the individual, society, and humanity further complicates this web. All these form a fragile and complex balance, which One Health strives to decode, untangle, and provide comprehensive answers to modern problems.

This Research Topic aims to explore at least two components from the tripartite content of One Health to illuminate the aspects, political actions, strategies, and research efforts of the scientific community with different scientific inception, geographical origins, and research destinations.

We expect and welcome articles that will include, inter alia:

• the spread and transmission of AMR;

• infectious diseases, including prevention and pathogenesis;

• the role of climate change in the re-emergence of diseases;

• the effects of environmental pollutants on human health;

• food safety, foodborne pathogens, and new diagnostic tools;

• surveillance, risk, and communication plans for new outbreaks of pandemics/epidemics;

• digital health, data sharing, and innovation in health systems;

• animal health and zoonotic diseases;

• integrated health-environmental surveillance systems;

There is space for more exploration of education on One Health as an integrated concept. As a complex and multifaceted concept, One Health connects with global well-being through the interdependence of biotic and abiotic ecosystems with humans. Consequently, we believe the global well-being perspective is extended within the One Health framework. Considering this, we also encourage research manuscripts that focus on enriching medical education with programs for One Health, civil protection preparedness plans and epidemiological surveillance between countries, healthy aging, mental health in the light of One Health, artificial intelligence tools in the context of One Health, as long as their research interest lies between the components of One Health, fits the scope of the Research Topic.

We encourage you to offer your unique perspectives on this multidisciplinary global health concept, as it is the diversity of viewpoints that enriches our understanding of One Health.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Public Health, Environmental Health, One Health, AMR, Education, Epidemiology, Surveillance, Climate Change, Diseases, Civil Protection, One Health policy, Digital Health, Zoonoses, Agri-food systems, food-borne pathogens, Environmental pollutants

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.