What is One Health?

One Health brings together professionals from diverse disciplines – including human and veterinary medicine, environmental science, public health, agriculture, and policy – to collaboratively address complex health challenges, like the emergence of infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and climate-related risks.

One Health promotes coordinated action across sectors to support the full spectrum of disease control – from prevention to detection, preparedness, response, and management – contributing to ecosystem integrity and global health security. This approach operates at community, national, regional, and global levels, and relies on effective governance, communication, and collaboration to identify co-benefits, manage trade-offs, and develop equitable, sustainable health solutions for all.

With roots in veterinary medicine and food production, researchers at the U of G have long understood the close relationship between the health of plants, animals, people and the land that supports them.

Research & Training Initiatives

First National One Health Training Program to Prepare Leaders for Next Pandemic

A new six-year training program co-led by researchers at the University of Guelph will use a One Health approach to build national capacity for the next pandemic – the first training of its kind in Canada.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded U of G and other university, government and non-governmental organization partners $2.7 million to co-create the new bilingual training program, titled the Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses (COHTPEZ). Read more…


Academic Programs

Bachelor of One Health

Undergraduate Program

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Collaborative Specialization in One Health

Graduate Program

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Doctor of Veterinary Medicine / Master of Public Health

Combined Degree Program

Mobilizing One Health

Continuing Education


The One Health Institute Newsletter

The biweekly One Health Newsletter provides information on One Health news and events here at U of G and other institutions. View or subscribe.



Last updated: 5/28/2025

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