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.
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…
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Last updated: 5/28/2025