Overview
One Health, the collaborative effort across multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain sustainable optimal health for the ecosystem, is a cultural and behavioral concept with socioeconomic elements and impact.
The 2014 One Health Grand Challenge was an opportunity open to all Texas A&M schools and colleges to plan and implement an inter/transdisciplinary collaborative approach to helping improve the lives of all species by addressing health and their connections between natural & man-made environments.
The challenge focused on identifying four major research themes and implementing a plan for bringing together faculty from across Texas A&M to form collaborative inter/transdisciplinary teams to propose research initiatives under the major themes.
ยป Grand Challenge Timeline (PDF)
Research in the Four Thematic Areas
Global Health & Security
Chagas disease in humans, animals, and insect vectors across a transactional gradient
Accessible & Affordable Quality Healthcare
Development of next-generation biologics through micro physiological systems
Chronic Diseases & Conditions
Optimizing one’s health: Genetic and environmental regulation of metabolic health
Safe & Available Food & Water
Transformative Impacts on One Health Using Electron Beam as a Platform Technology