Purpose
One Health Day, observed every year on Nov. 3, is an opportunity to recognize the partnerships and connections that make One Health work possible. This page has resources to support participation in this global campaign.
Nov 3, 2026
Background
One Health Day is an opportunity to recognize the many ways people across the globe are putting One Health into practice. Sharing how different disciplines and sectors connect their expertise to address health challenges helps make the work, and the connections that support it, more visible.
What does One Health look like in the work you do? Use the resources below to share your work, recognize your partners, and communicate why working across sectors matters.
How to participate
One Health Day can be an opportunity to:
- Share examples of your One Health work, partnerships, or connections with your audiences.
- Use the key messages, social media templates, and graphics below if you want to communicate about One Health Day.
- Recognize a partner or colleague whose expertise contributes to your work.
- Connect with colleagues or partners across disciplines and sectors to exchange information or resources or discuss opportunities to work together.
Toolkit key messages
Choose the messages that best fit your audience and what you want to communicate. Use the ready-to-use messages as written, or use the prompts to share examples from your own work.
When highlighting your own work, consider checking with program or subject matter experts for examples of partnerships, activities, or outcomes to feature.
One Health basics
Use these messages when communicating with audiences less familiar with the One Health approach.
- One Health is an approach that recognizes the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.
- Interactions among people, animals, plants, and the environment can create shared health challenges that require expertise from multiple disciplines and sectors.
- One Health is relevant to a wide range of health challenges, including zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, vector-borne diseases, food safety and security, environmental hazards, and others.
- Depending on the health issue, One Health can bring together expertise from areas such as public health, animal health, agriculture, wildlife, and environmental health, along with other relevant disciplines and partners.
- Professionals involved may include clinicians, epidemiologists, laboratorians, veterinarians, wildlife professionals, environmental health specialists, agricultural professionals, and others.
- Partners may include government agencies, academic institutions, professional associations, industry, nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and others.
Why One Health Collaboration Matters
Use the key message and prompt to explain why some health challenges require expertise and coordination across disciplines and sectors.
Key message: Some health issues require expertise from more than one discipline or sector. Connecting that expertise helps partners communicate, coordinate, and act across areas of work.
Think about your work: What expertise or perspective does another discipline or sector bring that complements your own?
Write your own message: Some health issues require expertise from more than one discipline or sector. In our work, that means connecting with [partners or areas of expertise] because [what their expertise or perspective contributes].
One Health in Practice
Use the key message and prompt to share how One Health is being applied in your work.
Key message: One Health can take different forms depending on the health issue, the expertise needed, and the partners involved.
Think about your work: Where are you working across disciplines or sectors to address a health issue? Examples might include coordination activities, surveillance or information sharing, preparedness and response, joint initiatives, training, research, or technical assistance.
Write your own message: In our work, One Health looks like [specific activity or partnership]. By bringing together [partners or areas of expertise], we [share information, coordinate surveillance, conduct investigations, train facilitators, develop guidance, plan response activities, etc.].
The Connections Behind Your Work
Use the key message and prompt to highlight the partners, relationships, tools, and mechanisms that contribute to your work.
Key message: One Health work depends not only on expertise, but on the relationships, tools, and coordination structures that help connect people and their work.
Think about your work: How do you stay connected with the partners and expertise your work depends on? Consider relationships, standing meetings, networks, platforms, shared tools, or other coordination mechanisms that help you share information, coordinate activities, prepare for health threats, or respond when an issue needs to be addressed.
Write your own message: [Relationship, network, tool, platform, or coordination mechanism] helps us stay connected with [partners or areas of work] by [providing a regular forum to exchange updates, sharing data or information, maintaining points of contact, connecting expertise, etc.].
What One Health Collaboration Makes Possible
Use the key message and prompt to highlight what working across disciplines and sectors helps you accomplish, from preparedness and information sharing to timely and coordinated response.
Key message: Connecting expertise across disciplines and sectors can strengthen how partners share information, coordinate activities, prevent health threats from occuring in the first place, and prepare for and respond to complex health issues.
Think about your work: What does working across disciplines or sectors help you understand, communicate, decide, or do more effectively? Consider whether these connections help you identify health issues earlier or more completely, access expertise or information outside your own area, make more informed decisions, strengthen preparedness, improve guidance or training, or coordinate more effectively when a response is needed.
Write your own message: Because we [shared activity] with [partners or areas of expertise], we are better able to [capability, outcome, or accomplishment the collaboration supports].
Social media toolkit
Use these ready-to-use messages or customize the templates to highlight your own One Health work. Use #OneHealthDay and #OneHealth to connect your posts with the broader conversation.
Ready to use messages
- This #OneHealthDay, learn how connections among people, animals, plants, and the environment can affect health, and why addressing some health issues requires expertise across disciplines and sectors. Learn more: [Link]
- #OneHealthDay is an opportunity to recognize the many ways people around the world are putting #OneHealth into practice. Explore #OneHealthDay resources: [Link]
- Some health issues require expertise from more than one discipline or sector. Connecting that expertise helps partners communicate, coordinate, and act across areas of work. [Link] #OneHealth #OneHealthDay
Customize your message
- Nov. 3 is #OneHealthDay. In our work, #OneHealth looks like [activity or partnership]. Together with [partners], we [share information, coordinate surveillance, conduct investigations, develop guidance, plan response activities, etc.]. Learn more about [work or initiative]: [link]
- [Name of network, tool, or coordination mechanism] helps us stay connected with [partners or areas of work] by [how the connection works]. Learn more: [link] #OneHealthDay
- Because we [shared activity] with [partners or areas of expertise], we're better able to [capability, outcome, or accomplishment]. Learn more: [link] #OneHealthDay
- This #OneHealthDay, [call to action] to [purpose or value]. Learn more: [link]* Actions could include joining an event, registering for a webinar, reading or downloading a resource, using a tool, or connecting with your organization
Graphics
See the One Health Communication Resources page for more graphics.
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