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15.2.2.3 What Worked Well
There was a focus on ensuring a friendly and integrative attitude in the Network,
with adaptive leadership. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, decision-
makers and other stakeholders from different fields with an interest in One Health
and evaluation, and offering opportunities for knowledge, exchange and sharing
with a clear task and purpose, NEOH managed to create a dynamic learning
organization. By engaging a wide range of people with similar interests, but different
(disciplinary) backgrounds, expertise, levels of seniority and professional roles,
many different perspectives and skill-sets came together in an enabling environment.
This contributed substantially to the innovation of methods and integration of
existing knowledge, and resulted in enthusiastic participation and a good range of
outputs and products.
15.2.2.4 Main Challenges
Given the large membership of the Network, which was spread across a number of
countries, and the many opportunities to get involved, there was a risk that
participants did not feel ownership of NEOH.
Consequently, strong communication
and pro-active engagement of participants was critical to ensure that the work was
integrative and effective, and not just an assembly of individual tasks. Another
major challenge was the risk of collaborating mainly with existing contacts who
already buy into the One Health concept instead of recruiting people who have not
yet engaged with One Health. Because of this, there was a dominance of animal
health professionals in the Network. To mitigate this imbalance, NEOH interacted
with other integrated health networks globally to promote wider engagement,
conceptual and practical advances, and shaping of a joint agenda. As part of these
activities, it formed closer ties with the EcoHealth community. ‘EcoHealth’
encompasses an “ecosystem approach to health”: the biological, physical, social
and economic environments and their relation to human health (Keune and Assmuth
2018). EcoHealth can be characterized by interdisciplinarity (e.g. health science,
veterinary science, ecology, social science) and transdisciplinarity (collaboration
with non-academic practice experts and stakeholders). Apart from the collaborative
angle, the equity perspective was essential in EcoHealth (Lebel 2003). Later a more
sophisticated set of EcoHealth principles was developed (Charron 2012). As a
follow-up of the NEOH COST-Action, as well as an answer to the need for a
European network, as was expressed during the 2016 European OneHealth/
EcoHealth workshop in Brussels (see Sect. 15.2.3), NEOH
has become
the European
Chapter of the Ecohealth International Trust and is now called Network for
Ecohealth and One Health.
Contact information: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/ and http://www.cost.eu/
COST_Actions/tdp/TD1404 and https://www.ecohealthinternational.org/regional-
chapters/europe/ H. Keune et al.
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Titel
- Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Autoren
- Melissa Marselle
- Jutta Stadler
- Horst Korn
- Katherine Irvine
- Aletta Bonn
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-02318-8
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 508
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Environmental health, Applied ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Public health, Regional planning, Urban planning
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima