One Health Office

Focus: To connect human, animal, and environmental health.

Some key activities:

• Serving as the CDC focal point for animal-human-ecosystem interface issues of public health importance, both in the United States and around the globe.
• Supporting many of CDC’s core functions that can address One Health (such as surveillance, outbreak response, prevention and control activities, laboratory capacity, and research).
• Providing guidance on One Health activities and strategic plans to improve health outcomes for both people and animals.
• Facilitating collaborations and information sharing across disciplines and sectors.
• Fostering global and domestic partnerships and liaising with various public health, animal health (agriculture and wildlife), and environmental health organizations.
• Leading the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Collaborating Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Zoonotic Diseases.
• Coordinating prevention and education for zoonoses that can spread between people and animals.