On the centenary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Influenza Preparedness Stakeholder Conference took place at the Chatham House in London, UK. The conference provided an opportunity to review the advances made over the past 100 years, evaluate current preparedness levels and discuss the pathways required to improve policy engagement. The Meeting Report is now available.
Thematic series
- Global health security
- One Health in policy, practice, and response to emerging diseases
- Novel opportunities for NGS-based One Health surveillance of foodborne pathogens
- Cross journal collections
Global health security
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the biosecurity and biothreat landscape, opening the realisation that there are a number of gaps in biosafety and biosecurity surveillance and response capabilities. This collection aims to address the needs to reassess pandemic planning to broaden the scope to other pathogenic agents, and include pathogen discovery and detection at the human-animal interface to understand the potential for future biological threats.
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One Health in policy, practice, and response to emerging diseases
This collection features papers detailing timely and important topics related to employing a One Health approach in policy, practice, and response to emerging diseases from around the world, with a special focus on themes that have previously been under-represented in the literature.
Novel opportunities for NGS-based One Health surveillance of foodborne pathogens
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) provides much greater (and faster) strain discrimination than traditional methods, including older genomic methods such as PFGE. At the same time NGS provides an all-in-one test (Whole Genome Sequencing, WGS) which can provide serotype, antimicrobial resistance or virulence profiling, and other molecular or traditional subtyping methods; and notably the same methodology works for all types of pathogens (virus, bacteria, fungi, parasites).
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Molecular and phenotypic characterization of efflux pump and biofilm in multi-drug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella Serovars isolated from food animals and handlers in Lagos Nigeria
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Female and male-controlled livestock holdings impact pastoralist food security and women’s dietary diversity
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Highlights from Science Policy Interface sessions at the One Health Congress 2020
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Knowledge, attitude and practices about rabies management among human and animal health professionals in Mbale District, Uganda
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Make science evolve into a One Health approach to improve health and security: a white paper
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Implementing One Health approaches to confront emerging and re-emerging zoonotic disease threats: lessons from PREDICT
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Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli among humans, chickens and poultry environments in Abuja, Nigeria
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Typing methods based on whole genome sequencing data
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Reproduction of East-African bats may guide risk mitigation for coronavirus spillover
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Joining forces in influenza pandemic preparedness
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SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Find a selection of articles published across Springer Nature, as well as additional commentary and books relevant to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.
Read moreFeatured White Paper: Make science evolve into a One Health approach to improve health and security
One Health Outlook has published a new White Paper in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. It summarizes highlights of the 5th International One Health Congress in 2018 in Canada and serves as a roadmap for the future, detailing several concrete action points to be carried out in the run-up to the next World One Health Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Read MoreOne Health challenges in Africa
One Health presents a specific challenge for national public health institutes in Africa, due to the lack of an Africa-wide consensus for the public health practice of One Health, including surveillance and disease control. The 1st International One Health Forum, which took place in Addis Ababa on 14-15 November 2019, focused on strengthening the public health practice of national public health institutes in Africa by assembling representatives from existing One Health initiatives and networks. The full report is available here
Aims and scope
One Health Outlook is a new open access journal published by BMC in collaboration with the One Health Platform.
Edited by Ab Osterhaus, One Health Outlook has a broad scope to encompass all aspects of One Health. Education and bringing people from different backgrounds together is what One Health is all about, and by removing barriers for readers, Open Access is ideally placed to promote the One Health ethos.
One Health Outlook welcomes papers from researchers looking at the interaction between human, animal, plant and environmental health; agriculture, food and water safety and soil health; disease surveillance, prevention and response, both infectious and chronic diseases; antimicrobial resistance; environmental toxicology detection and response; public policy and regulation; education, communications and outreach.
Announcing the launch of In Review
One Health Outlook, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
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The One Health Platform
One Health Outlook is published in collaboration with the One Health Platform. A strategic forum of stakeholders and a One Health reference network that aims to enhance understanding of and preparedness for the current and future outbreaks of zoonoses, emerging infectious diseases in humans and animals, and antimicrobial resistance, including the ecological and environmental factors which impact on these diseases.
