Ohio State's Global One Health initiative Celebrates Eastern Africa Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Global One Health connects Ohio State to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Thailand, China, India and beyond in a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to improve health, build capacity, and provide learning opportunities for students across the globe. The program expanded three years later to include Ohio State’s seven health sciences colleges as well as the colleges of agriculture, business, engineering and social work. Today hundreds of Ohio State students, faculty and staff are involved in the project, building capacity in various cross-cutting issues including Zoonotic diseases (such as Rabies and Brucellosis), Antimicrobial resistance, cancer, maternal and child health, medicinal plants, food safety, curriculum twinning and control and sharing the information through innovative e-learning technology. Global One Health is the university’s largest, interdisciplinary example of institutional teamwork operating on a global scale.