This document summarizes a plenary session on linking One Health and the Hyogo Framework for Action. It discusses how One Health, an interdisciplinary approach, coordinates investigations and outbreak control, provides laboratory services, and advises governments. It also mentions how 194 countries have implemented the International Health Regulations and the Hyogo Framework for Action addresses reducing disaster risks. The document concludes that managing One Health risks and other hazards poses an interdisciplinary challenge and that One Health should benefit from and link to the Hyogo Framework and its future post-2015 instrument.

1. GRF International Disaster and Risk Conference 2012 - Plenary Session 10:
Linking One Health and the Hyogo Framework for Action
30th August 2012
One Health - an interdisciplinary
challenge
Professor Virginia Murray
Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection

3. • Reducing key infections
• Minimising the health impact of environmental
hazards including radiation, chemicals,
poisonings and extreme events such as
flooding

4. • Co-ordinate investigations
and outbreak control
• Laboratory services
• Advise government
• Respond to international
health alerts

5. 194 countries implement
entered into force on
15 June 2007
http://www.who.int/ihr/97892415
96664/en/index.html

11. http://www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/docs/HFA-brochure-English.pdf

13. http://www.ipcc.
ch/publications_
and_data/public
ations_ipcc_four
th_assessment_
report_synthesis
_report.htm

20. Thoughts for One Health
• Worldwide, effects of extreme weather events
and natural hazards are apparent, having
increasing significance for human health of
which One Health is a part
• Managing the risks of One Health and other
hazards are an interdisciplinary challenge
• One Health already links to the International
Health Regulations but now needs to benefit
from the Hyogo Framework for Action and its
Post-2015 instrument