On May 9, 2020 the article titled “Reconnecting for our future: The Lancet One Health Commission” was published by Amuasi et al in The Lancet to officially announce the commissions framworkd. The commission was formed a year earlier. At the core of the Commission‘s work is the “recognition of several possible approaches to examining the animal–environment–human interface” which they “distill into three distinct but interrelated dimensions” [1, 3, 4]
EcoHealth Alliance‘s (EHA) Peter Daszak, funder of Wuhan Institute of Virology’s coronavirus research is on The Lancet One Health Commission! EHA is stated to be “A leader in the One Health movement which began in 2004” [2]
- “One Health, One World™” movement traces back to 2004 before the rebranding of EcoHealth Alliance in 2010
- The commission members released in 2021 – One Health as a Pillar for a Transformative Pandemic Treaty – Policy Brief , by Arne Ruckert et al [5], which seems to have began with a Canadian Public Health paper by Ruckert!
The “One Health framework by Amuasi et al (shown in Figure 1) to inform the work of the Lancet Commission on One Health, depicts the systems at this interface in a more connected way. It describes three dimensions of One Health, including the shared environment, food and food systems and interventions and medicines, each of which play a role in either the emergence of or response to zoonotic disease outbreaks.” [6]