One Health Promotion Through
Education, Research, Outreach and Policy

The Institute for Global Health and Health Policy (IGHHP) is a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of programmatic initiatives whose core mission is to promote education, research, outreach and policy in the service of One Health - a discipline that explores the connections between human, animal and ecosystem health by examining the root causes of contemporary declines in planetary wellness.

The target audience of One Health activities and research has to be one whose collective interests address holistic root causes of health dysfunction, rather than the usual breakup into silos and professions that are still the norm. The core audience is expanding to other disciplines such as biologists, educators, policy makers and others.

IGHHP promotes the following One Health initiatives:

• ✓ Marine animal medicine externships in various geographical locations, including Florida, California, Mississippi, Grenada, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico
• ✓ Externships involving free-ranging mammal and insect sentinel populations
• ✓ Externship activities aimed at safe and healthy food production through regenerative agriculture
• ✓ Conservation medicine studies, involving capture, testing and release or wild birds for the presence of Avian Influenza virus
• ✓ Conservation medicine studies testing triatomine bugs and opossums for the presence of the Chagas’ trypanosome
• ✓ Conservation medicine surveillance studies for the regional presence of Aedes spp. mosquitoes capable of vectoring dengue, chikungunya and zika viruses

Investigations of such relationships between animal populations, including hosts and vectors, build on our understanding of the complexities of disease dynamics and wellness.

The Institute for Global Health and Health Policy
Animal, Human and Environmental One Health Initiatives