One Health

One Health is a transdisciplinary, multisectoral, and collaborative approach to optimizing health that recognizes the interrelatedness of human health, animal health and the environment. Though the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the zoonotic virus SARS-CoV-2, is the highest profile example, the emergence and spread of numerous diseases are impacted by humans’ proximity to and relationship with animals, climate and the environment.
Endemic diseases like malaria, multidrug-resistant bacteria or diarrhea and emerging infections like COVID-19, Ebola or Zika can cause significant, detrimental impacts to Soldiers from home station to dense, urban or subterranean environments. Furthermore, they significantly impact food security, the environment and more, threatening global health and stability.

One Health research at WRAIR uses a transdisciplinary, collaborative approach to identify capability gaps and synchronize research solutions to achieve optimal Soldier readiness and enhance global health security. One Health leverages WRAIR’s strengths to pursue innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary projects to produce proactive solutions for health threats that occur at the human, animal and environmental interface, including zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases.
 

	Research Areas
			Cross-Disciplinary Research One Health joins WRAIR’s historic competencies in viral and bacterial diseases, entomology, global research and more with external partners to support innovative, proactive solutions to prevent emerging health threats to Soldiers and the world.
			Grants One Health unites internal and external capabilities to pursue cross-disciplinary grants and additional funding to produce relevant, translational research and products.
			Training One Health organizes, provides or promotes trainings aimed to improve awareness of a One Health approach and equip scientists with the tools to break down walls between disciplines.