The One Health Initiative is a movement to forge inclusive collaborations between physicians, veterinarians and other scientific-health and environmentally related disciplines. It’s a transdisciplinary way of thinking, used by those working towards a common goal of optimising human and animal health globally.

One Health concepts and ideas are some of the oldest in the health discipline, yet they have not become mainstream. In this public lecture, Jonathan Rushton, Professor of Animal Health Economics, Royal Veterinary College, will explore the economic logic of health interventions, areas where One Health can add value to an infectious disease management and whether this added value is sufficient for a One Health business case in order to improve resource allocation and improve economic and social returns.

Jonathan Rushton is an agricultural economist who specialises in livestock economics and development. He works on livestock development, animal diseases and One Health issues in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He sits on the management committee of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, is a non-executive director of the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England and has played a role in the debates on One Health through his continuing associations with the World Bank, FAO and CDC.

This lecture is presented by the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.