Jakob Zinsstag (Edited By) Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag is a veterinarian with a PhD in tropical animal health. Since 1998 he has led a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and has been deputy head of the department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH since 2011. He spent eight years in West Africa at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia and four years as the director of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Côte d'Ivoire. He is also past president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary network of the Swiss Academies. Prof. Zinsstag focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of health care to mobile pastoralists using a One Health approach.Esther Schelling (Edited By) Esther Schelling is the Head of Innovations, Learning and Quality Assurance at Vétérinaires sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse). After more than 20 years of research on health of pastoralists, zoonoses and One Health approaches at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, she wanted to foster implementation of gained main lessons. She is co-editor of the textbook 'One Health: The theory and practice of integrated health approaches' (2015/2020). The added value of a closer cooperation between the health sectors are seen in the earlier recognition of health events, in better control of zoonosis and more efficient surveillance and integrated health services - but should be shown more explicitly. The OH4 HEAL project led by VSF-Suisse seeks to improve integrated health services for families, their livestock, and the environment they live in pastoral cross-border regions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somali.Lisa Crump (Edited By) Dr. Lisa Crump is a veterinarian (DVM University of Illinois USA; BSc Cornell University USA) and epidemiologist (MSc University of Basel). She has worked in the Human and Animal Health Unit at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute as a researcher since 2010, validating One Health approaches to improve health care delivery and access in marginalized populations and strengthen local health capacity. She has field experience in Africa and Southeast Asia and global One Health consulting expertise. She was the managing editor of One Health: Theory and methods of integrated health approaches and co-produced three open online courses on One Health and transdisciplinary research. Her competence includes One Health conceptual thinking in research and development for health care provision, zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and pandemic prevention.

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• Section 1: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 1: One Health in History Chapter 2: Theoretical issues of One Health Chapter 3: An ecological and conservation perspective Chapter 4: Grappling with complexity: The context for One Health and the ecohealth approach Chapter 5: Toward a healthy concept of health Section 2: Methods, Skills and Perspectives for the Practice of One Health Chapter 6: Transdisciplinary research and One Health Chapter 7: The role of social sciences in One Health – reciprocal benefits Chapter 8: One Health study designs Chapter 9: Surveillance and response conducted in a One Health context Chapter 10: One Health economics Chapter 11: A Legal Framework of One Health: the human animal relationship Chapter 12: Animal-human transmission models Chapter 13: A One Health Perspective for Integrated Human and Animal Sanitation, Nutrient Recycling, and Climate Change Chapter 14: Reaping One Health Benefits through Cross-Sectoral Services Chapter 15: One Health Leadership and Team Building Training Section 3: One Health in Practice Chapter 16: The Practice of One Health: Lessons Learned Chapter 17: Climate change: the ultimate One Health challenge Section 3a: Infectious Disease Chapter 18: Emergence of antimicrobial resistance and interaction between humans, animals and environment Chapter 19: Integrated rabies control Chapter 20: Brucellosis surveillance and control: a case for One Health Chapter 21: Human and animal African trypanosomiasis Chapter 22: Bovine tuberculosis at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in sub-Saharan Africa Section 3b: Non-communicable Disease Chapter 23: The Role of Companion Animals in Supporting Human Patients with Non-communicable Diseases Chapter 24: Towards Resilience: The One Health Approach in Disasters Chapter 25: Food security and nutrition Chapter 26: Benefits of Human–Animal Interactions for Mental Health and Well-being Chapter 27: The Spiritual Dimension of Health Section 4: Governance and capacity building Chapter 28: Academic and Institutional ‘One Health’ Research Capacity Building Chapter 29: One Health in Policy Development: Options to prevent rabies in cattle in Bhutan Chapter 30: One Health into action: Integrating global health governance with national priorities in a globalised world Chapter 31: Measuring added value from integrated methods: Towards a Game Theory of One Health Chapter 32: Summary and outlook: One Health in practice