Cross-Sectoral Integration Resources
Unfulfilled Promise: Pollinator Declines, Crop Deficits, and Diet-Associated Disease
In a new study in Environmental Health Perspectives, a team of scientists estimated effects of pollinator deficits on five diet-associated disease end points: stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and all-cause mortality associated with changes in weight.
How Decline of Indian Vultures Led to 500,000 Human Deaths
More than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a drug used to treat sick cows.
A One Health Approach to Tackling AMR and Why Gender Matters: Findings from Pastoralist Communities in Tanzania
This paper focuses on the gendered risk of AMR through a study of gender and social determinants of access to and use of antimicrobials in low-resource pastoralist settings in Tanzania.
To Handle Zoonoses Better, Indigenous People Must be Included in Policy Making
For a better One Health strategy, India needs to integrate indigenous knowledge with the scientific framework that guide national health policies.
Red Seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) Supplementation Reduces Enteric Methane by Over 80 Percent in Beef Steers
The red macroalgae (seaweed) has shown to reduce ruminant enteric methane (CH4) production up to 99% in vitro.
African Union AMR Landmark Report: Voicing African Priorities on the Active Pandemic
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a leading cause of death in the African region, surpassing fatalities from malaria, HIV, and TB.
Captive Wildlife Management Survey in Vietnam, 2015–2021
In Vietnam, breeding and raising a wide range of wildlife species in captive wildlife facilities are common practices but little information on the captive wildlife population is available.
Where and How to Invest in Greenspace for Optimal Health Benefits: A Systematic Review of Greenspace Morphology and Human Health Relationships
Research on the relationship between greenspace morphology and health is a growing field that informs the spatial design of greenspace to enhance health outcomes.
Navigating New Horizons: A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing
This Navigating New Horizons report outlines a process focused on planetary health and human wellbeing—an intentional framing to expand the range of issues and informed views that typically shape United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s work.
Planetary Health Learning Objectives: Foundational Knowledge for Global Health Education in an Era of Climate Change
In response to member demands for resources to support teaching and learning related to planetary health, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) convened a working group to develop a set of planetary health learning objectives (PHLOs) that would complement the existing ten CUGH global health learning objectives.
The Economic Impacts of Ecosystem Disruptions: Costs from Substituting Biological Pest Control
This work makes a contribution to our understanding of the relationship between ecosystem functioning and human well-being by using a natural experiment—an occurrence resulting from unexpected changes in environmental conditions that approximates a randomized control trial.
Understanding How and Where Pathogens Emerge: Preparedness and Response for Zoonotic Diseases
This chapter will examine what we know about how and where zoonotic disease threats emerge and key gaps in the information needed for preparedness, both before an outbreak and in emergency response.
Evidence for Widespread Human Exposure to Food Contact Chemicals
Over 1800 food contact chemicals (FCCs) are known to migrate from food contact articles used to store, process, package, and serve foodstuffs.
One Health, Many Perspectives: Exploring Indigenous and Western Epistemologies
The objective of this project is to identify values in Indigenous science that are unsupported or underrepresented in Western science and then collaboratively ideate recommendations that Western allies can take to center and support Indigenous scientists and elevate Indigenous knowledge.
Collaborators with skin in the game: Learning about the use of sport to foster resilience against wildlife crime in the Greater Kruger, South Africa
This 2024 USAID Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Case Competition winner is about the USAID Khetha Program, “Protecting Wildlife, Benefiting Communities.
From Silos to Solutions: The Value Added by Using a One Health Approach
“One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, and ecosystems.
Putting USAID's One Health Position Statement into Practice
One Health is a pragmatic approach that encourages cross-sectoral collaboration to design effective solutions to complex global challenges where the health of natural systems, humans, and animals are interdependent.
Untangling the Drivers of Land Conversion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia: A Systems Approach
This learning brief highlights findings from a systems mapping research study to investigate what drives smallholder farmers to convert natural lands to agriculture production spaces in three high biodiversity regions: Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.
USAID at Our Ocean Conference 2024
At the April 15–17, 2024, Our Ocean Conference in Athens, Greece, USAID announced more than $103 million in funding to conserve and protect our oceans, subject to Congressional notification.
USAID Cambodia Morodok Baitang Fact Sheet
Morodok Baitang is a five-year activity to conserve Cambodia’s unique biodiversity, reduce land-based sources of carbon emissions, and improve accountable and equitable economic development.
