One Health Gov

One Health Gov focuses on integrating the One Health approach into governance to address interconnected health, environmental and economic challenges. The project utilises cross-regional exchange to support policy improvements and implementation for more sustainable and holistic solutions.

What does One Health bring to governance?

Covid-19 and its economic burden highlighted the need to rethink how societies address well-being and health in relation to environment and animals. One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, and ecosystems.

Applying One Health to governance unlocks novel opportunities for addressing complex and interlinked issues more effectively, cohesively, and synergically, leading to better outcomes – win-win-win.

Integrating One Health approach into policies is the most comprehensive and effective way to ensure economic sustainability while dealing with health-climate-nature issues, i.e. tackling multicriteria policy challenges. Thus, One Health is imperative for various regional tasks, incl. healthcare, civil engineering and environmental monitoring.

Project approach

In the project, partners tackle the core issues of One Health approach for governance, and learn from approaches, tools, and governance solutions that other regions utilise. Different contexts and possibilities enable testing different solutions. Through an intensive interregional exchange of experiences, a comprehensive set of capacities is built to improve the design and delivery of policies. This exchange includes analyses, identifying good practices, site visits, round tables, thematic workshops and information materials.

Project aims and outcomes

One Health Gov aims to support One Health governance and policy improvements such that these are more cost-effective and in line with complex interconnected challenges of One Health.

Through the interregional exchange of experience, partners will: 1. increase their understanding of One Health, 2. improve policies, and 3. strengthening capacities for holistic cross-sectoral governance.

In particular, the project focuses on improving the following:

• One Health awareness
• Smooth cross-sectoral collaboration
• Effective use of data, indicators and holistic monitoring
• Empowering involvement of stakeholders
• Ascertaining cost-effectivity of measures
• Prioritization of measures
• Supporting innovation, RDI

Partnership

One Health Gov brings together 7 partners from 6 regions that are trailblazing One Health in their contexts.

• Lahti University Campus, University of Helsinki, Finland (Lead Partner)
• City of Lahti, Finland
• City of Lyon, France
• Commonwealth of La Costera – Canal, Spain
• Suceava Municipality, Romania
• Pomorskie Voivodeship, Poland
• Municipality of Milan, Italy