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FAO ICT for #OneHealth Community of Practice Webinar | 6 Aug 2025 | 16:00–17:15 CEST | Online

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ICT-enabled intersectoral collaboration to tackle #HPAI in Latin America and the Caribbean

✅ Chile & Brazil

🌐 Webinar in Spanish with English interpretation.

Join @fao.org One Health Knowledge Nexus Community of Practice on Information and Communication Technologies for One Health.

A vibrant community of epidemiologist, data scientists, and enthusiasts learning from one another #onehealth #digitalhealth

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🌱📊 Join the FAO One Health ICT CoP! 🌍
Launch: 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CET 💻
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Connect, share, and innovate with peers using ICT to boost One Health data flow & early warning.
#OneHealth #ICT #GlobalHealth #Innovation

Quantifying exposure is challenging. Checkout latest article in collaboration with CAHFS of CVM, University of Minnesota.

🐖 3 spatial exposure indices for swine farms in NC— risk differs depending on how it's defined.

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#SpatialEpi #OneHealth

TOMORROW! The Quadripartite collaboration for One Health hosts a webinar on April 30, 12:00-13:30 CEST to launch the One Health Governance Community of Practice to support improved institutionalization of the One Health approach at all levels.

Learn more: fao.org/one-health/r...

Happy World #Veterinary Day!

Last Saturday of April is celebrated as the World Veterinary Day since 2000.

Established by The World Veterinary Association

Here’s to those silent heros who are dedicating their lives to improving health of animals, people, and the environment! #OneHealth

What is Information and Communication Technology (#ICT) in #OneHealth ?

Smart tech that helps doctors, vets, and ecosystem health experts work together to stop diseases before they spread — keeping people, animals, and our planet healthy. 🌍💻🐾 #digitalhealth

🌱 Join the One Health Governance CoP Launch! 🌍

🌟A NEW Community of Practice (CoP) on FAO One Health Knowledge Nexus

🗓 Date & Time: April 30, 2025 | 12:00–1:30 PM CET | Online

🔗 Register now: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Questions? Email: [email protected]

@fao.org One Health Knowledge Nexus hosted on Virtual Learning Centers offers Communities of Practice (CoP) for professionals, researchers & influencers to connect and exchange knowledge in #OneHealth

Stay tuned for upcoming CoPs on the Nexus

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Why One Health needs Communities of Practice (CoP)?

#Onehealth entails interdisciplinary collaboration and learning from one another to solve different parts of the same challenge. A CoP facilitates this regular conversation by bringing people together.
#Zoonoses #AMR #Community #Preparedness

6. Improved Collaboration:
CoPs foster a culture of collaboration, breaking down silos. 
7. Standardization of Practices:
CoPs can help identifying best practices and standardize.

4. Increased Confidence:
Participating in a CoP can boost your confidence as you learn from peers, and grow your professional abilities. 
5. Innovation:
CoPs can spark new ideas and innovations and problem solving through collective knowledge.

Why be part of a Community of Practice?
1. Continue Professional Growth:
Cops enable learning from each other and stay updated.
2. Networking:
CoPs foster connections with like-minded professionals.
3. Problem Solving:
CoPs provide a space to discuss challenges, brainstorm solutions.

4. Long term One Health benefits are hard to showcase

Stakeholders often focus on short term gains like immediate approaches to control a disease rather than investing longterm. Because ‘prevention’ lacks tangible success stories:

‘Disease that didn’t happen’

‘Economic loss that was avoided’

3. Communication gaps

Although some efforts are in place, often, One a health initiatives operate in a project basis or emergency basis rather than embedded in institutional structures ensuring consistent dedication and funding.

2. Lack of implementation standards

Absence of established protocols and examples or standard frameworks makes it difficult to integrate and sustain long term interdisciplinary engagements.

A framework to measure One Health impact across disciplines is in need.

1. Institutional identity

Medical professionals , Veterinarians, Ecosystem health scientists and Social scientists have their distinct methods, funding no streams, priorities that are long established making it challenging to create genuine cross sectoral relationships.

One health is all about breaking silos. Ironically, from certain angle One Health seems like a silo too!

One Health is like the gym membership in January- everyone is all in when the crisis hits, but forgotten when the storm passes.

Why?

Looking forward to connecting with fellow #researchers #epidemiologists #globalhealth and #onehealth enthusiasts!

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