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One Sustainable Health Institute – Europe

THE PROJECT TO ESTABLISH A ONE SUSTAINABLE HEALTH INSTITUTE

Today, the crises that are disrupting our societies are multifaceted. Their dynamics are vast, spanning multiple dimensions such as health, biodiversity, inequality and climate change to name but a few. Preventing and managing this broad spectrum of crises requires a comprehensive and integrated approach. Involving all relevant actors, from authorities to members of civil society, from researchers to the private sector, is a civilizational imperative.

The pandemic has highlighted the unifying concept of “One Health”, highlighting the crucial importance of taking an integrative approach to addressing emerging zoonotic threats. However, to address the numerous causes of these multifaceted crises, a more encompassing concept is emerging: “One Sustainable Health for All”. It combines the essential involvement of civil society and the necessary interconnection between all public and private actors to respond to our health, environmental and social challenges, in a sustainable and cross-cutting way.

In this context, Europe provides an appropriate platform to have both a local impact in Western society and a global impact through its sphere of influence. However, tackling this major challenge requires unprecedented coordination due to a highly fragmented landscape, divided between the different areas of health (human, animal, environmental), between the actors involved (civil society, researchers, private sector, authorities) and even between political and research institutions.

Members of the One Europe for Global Health coalition and members of the One Sustainable Health Forum (OSH) organised a session on 16 October 2023 at the World Health Summit in Berlin on the establishment of a One Sustainable Health Institute initiated by Europe.

During this session, co-chaired by Ole Petter-Ottersen (former President of the Karolinska Institutet) and Aku Kwamie (WHO – Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research), a variety of speakers expressed their views on the value of establishing an OSH Institute whose activities could include:

A

Creating a space for convergence bringing together a diversity of professionals (academics/researchers, private sector, civil society, local and national authorities, etc.) through a technical platform to share and disseminate good operational practices in the face of major health issues related to the environment.

B

Develop training courses on the OSH approach, both MOOCs and face-to-face programmes, through a collaborative network of French and European academic institutions (medicine, public health, veterinary, agronomy, political science) along with academic institutions of countries that have already expressed their interest through the OSH Forum.

C

Advise on the design and implementation of operational programmes targeting the key causes of the onset of these crises in order to have the broadest possible impact.

D

Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of cross-cutting, multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder programmes.

The project to set-up an OSH Institute – Europe is the subject of discussions within the OSH Forum on setting up simultaneously an OSH Institute – Africa based on the “One Health” expertise already present on the African continent. These OSH Institutes – Europe and Africa initiatives will be discussed at the 2nd  OSH by All conference in Dakar from 25 to 27 October 2024.

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