The central idea of One Health is that people, animals, and our shared environment are closely interconnected. A One Health approach to solving a public health problem considers all three perspectives to achieve the best possible outcome.
FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has long recognized the importance of One Health in its mission to protect human and animal health. Every day, CVM’s mission reaches across scientific disciplines and combines the knowledge of experts in multiple fields. Veterinarians, chemists, biologists, statisticians, economists, environmental scientists, and others work together to use science, technology, and innovation to improve the well-being of people, animals, and the environment and to support the human-animal bond.
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