One Health Case Studies

Susan Cork (Edited By) Dr Susan Catherine Cork is a professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Canada. Her research interests include veterinary public health, infectious diseases, animal health policy, and international development. Dr Cork has travelled extensively, including work as a volunteer veterinarian in South Asia, and she has over 25 years' experience working with Bhutanese colleagues on animal health related projects. She recently co-edited a Book on One Health Case Studies: Practical Applications of the Transdisciplinary Approach (2025), published by CABI and was the lead editor for a book on One Health and EcoHealth Case Studies, published in 2016 and 2024 respectively, She was also the lead editor for the third edition of the Veterinary Laboratory and Field Manual (2019) which was endorsed by the World Organization for Animal Health. The latter books were based on field experience gained working with colleagues in international development projects as well as from leading transdisciplinary teams alongside government agencies and NGOs in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, and Bhutan (South Asia). Dr Cork holds a veterinary degree and PhD from Massey University and a postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy from the University of Victoria, New Zealand. She is a member of the new CABI One Health initiative and has previously contributed to other CABI books including chapters on food safety, disease surveillance, animal health policy, and disease ecology. Dr Cork has published a wide range of peer reviewed papers, government reports, and general interest articles.Joann Lindenmayer (Edited By) Joann Lindenmayer DVM, MPH, is adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS). A graduate of Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health, her research has focused on various aspects of One Health, most recently the ethical underpinnings of this internationally recognized initiative. She serves as the Northeast Director of the Evidence-Based Veterinary Medical Association, Senior Editor of CABI One Health Resources, and Vice Chair of the Uxbridge MA Board of Health. She is also a fellow in the PanWorks Think Tank (https://panworks.io/), for which the motto is "Bringing Ethics to Life," and where she is Team Lead for the One Health Ethics channel. Dr. Lindenmayer spent seven years living and working in Sabah, East Malaysia (North Borneo) as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and in Niger, West Africa, as a veterinarian for expatriate dogs and cats and epidemiologist studying reproduction and production parameters among sheep herds owned by semi-nomadic herders. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical Foundation of Boston for epidemiologic research in Lyme Disease and was a fellow in the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, serving her two-year fellowship in the Division of Field Epidemiology, Vermont Department of Health. In 2013 she and Dr. Michael McGuill received the Roy Montgomery Award from EBVMA for Information Wizardry: A Six-week Course for Practicing Veterinarians to Improve Clinical Decision-making. As an Associate Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, she was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the interactions between veterinary medical and public health professionals during the HPAI outbreak in Southeast Asia, and she served as a Principal Investigator for Tufts RESPOND grant, a $185 million dollar grant awarded by USAID to strengthen the international response to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. She was the DVM-MPH dual degree program director at the Cummings School from 2006 to 2014, and the Senior Manager for Disaster Operations for Humane Society International from 2014-2016. She has published widely in veterinary medical, public health, animal welfare and infectious disease journals. Joann is an avid competitive dragon boat racer and shameless lover of dogs.

• Section 1: One Health Policy 1: Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine or Sustainable Animal Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana 2: A One Health Approach to Level Up Ethnoveterinary Practises in Rural India: A Pilot Project among the Local Community of Doddaballapur (Karnataka) 3: Systems Thinking Methodology Application to One Health Enabling Factors Analysis: Case Study from Kazakhstan 4: One Health Initiative of Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice (OHRP): Implementation on Enhancing Poultry Health and Production, Food Safety and Quality of Chicken Meat in Hong Kong SAR 5: One Health Operationalisation in a Local Health System: Learnings from an Urban City of India, Ahmedabad Section 2: Pests and pathogens 6: Control of Dengue Epidemic in Lahore: A Fortuitous Application of One Health Approach 7: A Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network that Promotes Human and Wildlife Health 8: Urban Rats (Rattus norvegicus) through a One Health Lens: Social and Ecological Factors Promote Opportunities for Urban Leptospirosis in Rats, Dogs, and People 9: The One Health Approach to Addressing Zoonotic Malaria in Rural Northern Borneo: Challenges and Solutions 10: The Road Not Travelled: Bovine Tuberculosis in England, Wales, and Michigan, USA 11: One Health approach to the diagnosis and management of feline rabies: A case report from Ebonyi State, Nigeria 12: Toward a One Health Surveillance System in Cuba: Co-Productive Stakeholder Engagement 13: A Community-Based Approach to Explore Challenging and Sensitive Issues: Hunting, Wild Meat Consumption, and Zoonotic Disease Risks in Tanzania Section 3: Water and the Environment 14: Sowing Agroecology in Rio Doce through a Technical Assistance and Rural Outreach Program in a Territory Affected by the Biggest Environmental Disaster in Brazilian History 15: Transdisciplinary Research as a Means of Protecting Human Health, Ecosystems and Climate by Engaging People to Act on Air Pollution 16: Social-ecological System Health in Transfrontier Conservation Areas to Promote the Coexistence Between People and Nature 17: One Health in Turkana County, Kenya: Applications and Lessons Learned 18: Co-design of Locally Adapted Communication Materials to Boost Engagement around Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in a Community in Ibadan, Nigeria Section 4: Agriculture and Food Security 19: Livestock for Livelihoods: Role of Goats in Improving the Livelihood and Well-being of Women Pastoralists in Ethiopia and Uganda 20: How Crop–livestock Clinics Are Advancing One Health: A Pilot Case from Uganda 21: Where One Health Meets Food Systems Teaching and Learning: Expanding Skillsets for Food System Transformation 22: Beyond Data Source: Engaging Herders’ Knowledge and Perspectives within the BufFarm Research Process 23: Community-Designed One Health Units as a Model for Integrated Service Delivery in Pastoralist Areas of Africa Section 5: Education and Community Engagement 24: A Social-Ecological and One Health Observatory: Ten Years of Collaborative Studies in Saen Thong (Nan, Thailand) 25: Jigjiga University One Health Initiative 26: Just One Health Project ECHO: Advancing Health and Justice 27: Undertaking One Health Research with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities: Implications of a One Health Pilot Study 28: MAMMALNET – Citizen Science Data Collection from a One Health Perspective