OUR MISSION

To help the Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN) and Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) in constructing scalable and sustainable methods that prepare and empower human assets to fight advanced and dynamic world well being threats on the earth’s most weak areas for illness emergence.

AT THE CORE OF ONE HEALTH

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the significance of a properly ready and technically expert One Health workforce for illness prevention, detection, and response. A big-scale, multidisciplinary community of well being professionals is vital for strengthening our biodefense’s and reaching world well being safety. Founded in 2011 with the help of USAID, AFROHUN and SEAOHUN solid college networks to coach and equip the well being workforce with the One Health expertise wanted to forestall, detect, and reply to well being threats equivalent to rising infectious ailments and antimicrobial resistance.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Building on the inspiration established by USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats RESPOND (2009- 2014) and One Health Workforce (2014-2019) Projects, USAID One Health Workforce – Next Generation (OHW-NG) is supporting AFROHUN (previously OHCEA) and SEAOHUN to turn into world leaders in One Health by delivering state-of-the-art, scalable, and sustainable methods for coaching and empowering the well being workforce. Together, we’re creating the “next generation” well being workforce that engages throughout disciplines and ensures human, animal, and environmental well being professionals have the capability to forestall, detect, and reply to our world’s biggest well being threats.

Using quite a lot of coaching codecs, equivalent to One Health pupil golf equipment and experiential studying platforms to succeed in college students and workforce professionals, OHWNG is driving the usage of vital One Health competencies that guarantee people have the information and utilized expertise to work throughout disciplines on advanced well being challenges. As properly, OHW-NG is working to reinforce AFROHUN and SEAOHUN’s adaptive response and decision-making capabilities and to help the event of methods for long- time period organizational sustainability and self-reliance.