In this article, we advocate for funding and engagement in deep context-specific social research before funding and engaging in One Health interventions. Through our own work on the Indo-Pacific Initiative for Sustainable Animal Health Cooperation, we seek to understand how factors such as gender and social inclusion can inform the uptake or rejection of One Health practices within local communities in the region.
The newly signed Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly represents a leap of faith that lessons from COVID-19 can drive stronger cooperation in the next pandemic.
Listen to the SBS Gagana Samoa podcast series interview with Professor Sara Davies on 'disinformation in health'.
Some of the important areas covered here is the difference between 'misinformation' and disinformation', and how dangerous disinformation can be when it comes to matters of health.
There were lessons to be learned from the disinformation fanned by social media during the COVID-19 epidemic.