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The more than 60 attendees included the state’s chief medical officer, the state veterinarian, and representatives from the FBI, the Farm Bureau, Extension, FEMA, USDA, Lincoln Park Zoo, and many academic institutions. During the workshop, participants assessed the needs in Illinois related to zoonotic diseases and outbreak response, agriculture and animal husbandry, environment, climate change, access to healthcare, antimicrobial resistance, and data interoperability.
Simultaneous to the WOHC in Cape Town, World leaders were meeting in New York at the UN General Assembly Summit of the Future and adopting a Pact for the Future. However, that Summit program failed to include One Health in discussions in spite of the UN Quadripartite (WHO, FAO, WOAH, UNEP) actively embracing and leading for One Health. When attendees at the 8th World One Health Congress became aware of this serious oversight, on 21 September, 2024 they collectively prepared and shared a message to the UN General Secretary, the Summit of the Future Actions Days and other UN contacts urging that One Health be fully embraced with specific suggestions of where it could be included in the draft PACT.
Authors: Cheryl Stroud and Richard Seifman In: IMPAKTER
“Much has been written about the positive and negative aspects of both tourism and human health, but rarely from a One Health perspective……. Environmental quality, biodiversity and ecosystem health have huge implications for our collective future, and tourism can play a positive or negative role…….. One Health thinking based on our interconnectedness with animals, ecosystems, and environments can provide a framework for that balancing act.”
