One Health in Asia

Gyanendra Gongal
Senior Public Health Officer
World Health Organization
Regional Office for South-East Asia

Webinar on ‘Role of Subnational Leaders in One Health’, 2 June 2022

 Outlines

• Emerging zoonoses at the human-

animal interface
• Asia-Pacific context and health threats
• One Health initiatives
• Health emergency preparedness in
urban settings
• Take home messages
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Emerging Infectious Diseases & Zoonoses
Of known human diseases originated
in animals

Of recent emerging infectious

diseases are zoonotic

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Asia-Pacific region
• Fifty-two percent population live
in cities and urban areas in Asia*
• More than half of the world’s
mega-cities are now found in Asia
and the Pacific
• Extensive travel network and
internal migration
• Asia Pacific is a hotspot
• Biodiversity
• Population density (human and
animals)
• Behavior/Practices
* Statistica 2022

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 Traditional food markets

Traditional food market is a term that include wet markets, informal markets, and farmers
markets that sell foods of animal origin/non-animal origin/dried goods and where live animals
are sometimes housed and slaughtered on site.

https://www.plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/ https://tinyurl.com/y7yy4r3x https://www.cgiar.org/ Credit: AARON TAM/AFP/Getty Images

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OIE/UNEP/WHO guidance on public health risks
and traditional food markets
Six Recommendation from the OIE/UNEP/WHO Guidance:

WHO, OIE and UNEP call on all national competent authorities to

suspend the trade in live caught wild animals of mammalian
species for food or breeding and close sections of food markets
selling live caught wild animals of mammalian species as an
emergency measure unless demonstrable effective regulations and
adequate risk assessment are in place.

WHO, OIE and UNEP are committed to assisting governments to

strengthen food safety regulations to prohibit the marketing and
sale of captured live wild animals as food and to control the
safety of all animals and animal products intended for human
consumption.

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IMCAPI, New Delhi, India
Recognition of the potential of OH in disease
control and pandemic preparedness
“Promoting one Health could be the natural
extension of the global response to AI”
IMCAPI, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt
One Health becomes a
recommended strategic approach
”
Presentation of the FAO/OIE/WHO Strategic
Framework
Last IMCAPI, Hanoi, Vietnam
Interministerial Declaration
“focus on the health systems’ capacity for
rapid inter-disciplinary action and coordination
in line with the requirements outlined in IHR
2005 and the OIE standards”
FAO/OIE/WHO Tripartite Concept Note
IMCAPI, Beijing, China
Agreement on financing framework for a
2006 clearer approach
Integrated National Action Plans agreed on
for human influenza
2007
FAO–OIE–WHO Joint Technical Consultation
on Avian Influenza at the Human Animal
Interface, Verona, Italy
2008
“One World, One Health: from ideas
to Action”, Winnipeg, Canada
2009 Building on the Strategic Framework: one
government’s initiative to implement One
Health
“Operationalizing ‘One Health’: Taking
2010 Stock & Shaping an Implementation
Roadmap”, Stone Mountain, USA
One Health working groups are set up for a
3-year period
Second FAO–OIE–WHO Joint Technical Consultation on AI
at the Human Animal Interface, Verona, Italy
Regional Quadripartite Coordination for
Sustainable One Health in Asia

GLOBAL TRIPARTITE Global Tripartite Executive + Global Tripartite Secretariat

Regional One Health Tripartite Coordination Group for Asia and the Pacific
INTERNAL REGIONAL PARTNERS ZOONOTIC ANTIMICROBIAL
– FAO INFLUENZA RESISTANCE
– OIE (RRAP AND SRR-SEA)
– WHO (SEARO AND WPRO)
RABIES FOOD SAFETY
– UNEP

COUNTRIES IN ASIA PACIFIC EXTERNAL REGIONAL PARTNERS

– FAO/OIE/WHO/UNEP focal points – USAID
– Ministries of Health, Agriculture, – EU
– Environment etc. – Fleming Fund
– Other national stakeholders – Other donors
– Other agencies
Regional Tripartite collaboration for One Health
Place Year Lead Agency Remarks
FAO OIE WHO
1. Sapporo (Japan) 2010 WPRO Hokkaido Univ.
2. Chiang Mai (Thailand) 2012
3. Bali (Indonesia) 2012
4. Kathmandu (Nepal) 2013 SEARO
5. Bangkok (Thailand) 2014
6. Sapporo (Japan) 2015 Hokkaido Univ.
7. Manila (Philippines) 2017 WPRO
8. Bangkok (Thailand) 2019

ASEAN Rabies Meeting, SAARC Rabies Meeting, Webinar on rabies, Zoonotic Influenza Workshop, Regional
AMR Workshop, tripartite missions

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The COVID-19 pandemic: a call to action and
an opportunity
Approaches
• Whole of the government
• Whole of the society
• The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities
and important roles that cities and other urban settings
play in health emergencies
• Cities and urban settings are crucial to preventing,
preparing for, responding to, and recovering from health
emergencies
• Urban areas, especially cities, have unique vulnerabilities
that need to be addressed and accounted for in health
emergency preparedness
• The framework is targeted towards policymakers in all
sectors engaged in health emergency preparedness in cities
and urban settings at both national and subnational levels
• It details eight key areas for health emergency
preparedness in cities and urban settings
 Reducing the pandemic risk
A Global Treaty on Pandemic Prevention
Integrates of pandemic preparedness and pandemic
prevention
Facilitates multi-lateral and trans-sectoral
implementation of a One Health approach to
pandemic prevention
Ensures a long-term commitment of Member States
to address the route causes of disease emergence and
provision of international support to meet those
commitments
Government-led negotiations involving cooperation
with the FAO, OIE, UNEP and WHO

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 Take home messages
• Recognition of the existential interconnectedness of humans, animals and
their shared environment, is key to ensuring the healthy and sustainable
future (SDGs)

• There is growing recognition of One Health, however, it has to be translated

from concept into actions through country level activities

• Establish a functional One Health Coordination Mechanism at national and

subnational levels
• Define roles and responsibilities of One Health stakeholders
• Prioritize One Health focus areas considering country and local context
• Develop joint plan of action for One Health
• Carry out resource mapping and document good practices

Webinar on ‘Role of Subnational Leaders in One Health’, 2 June 2022

Gyanendra Gongal
Senior Public Health Officer
World Health Emergency Programme
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
New Delhi
E-mail: gongalg@who.int,
Homepage: https://www.who.searo.int/

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