Advancing Climate-Responsive One Health Systems
Connecting
People for a Healthier Future
Connecting
Animals and Nature for a Healthier Future
Welcome to One Health Horizons (OHH)
Core Values
- Systems Thinking
- Scientific Excellence
- Community Leadership
- Collaboration
- Integrity
- Equity and Inclusion
- Environmental Stewardship
- Innovation
Vision
A future where healthy people, thriving animals, and resilient ecosystems coexist across climate-resilient landscapes.
Mission
To advance integrated, climate-responsive One Health systems that safeguard human, animal, and ecosystem health through innovation, community leadership, scientific evidence, and strategic partnerships.
Our Geographic Focus
Our organization’s work is organized around three strategic pillars
Climate-Smart Ecosystem and Livelihood Resilience:
Promoting ecosystem health, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, and resilient food and water systems.
Transboundary Health and Biosecurity Systems
Strengthening integrated surveillance, early warning, pandemic prevention, and health security approaches across connected landscapes and borders.
Adaptive One Health Systems
strengthening community leadership, institutional capacity, research, digital innovation, governance, and evidence-informed decision-making.
Connecting People, Animals and Nature for a Healthier Future
Strengthening climate-responsive One Health systems at the Human–Animal–Ecosystem Interface, reducing interconnected risks while enhancing ecosystem integrity, community resilience, and sustainable livelihoods across East Africa.
The One Health in Motion Framework
Systems Pathway
Movement → Detection → Intelligence → Response → Recovery → Resilience
Movement:
Understanding how people, animals, pathogens, and environmental changes create risk pathways.
Detection
Identifying early signals through integrated surveillance.
Intelligence
Transforming data into actionable information using science and technology.
Response
Enabling coordinated action across sectors.
Recovery
Supporting communities and systems after shocks.
Resilience
Building adaptive systems capable of managing future risks.
The framework is anchored on three principles: Transboundary Systems Thinking, Climate Resilience, and Adaptive Nexus Systems.
Strategic Programmatic Pillars
Transboundary Health & Biosecurity Systems
- Stopping risks before they cross borders.
Focus areas: One Health surveillance, community early warning systems, pandemic prevention, zoonotic disease prevention, antimicrobial resistance, and cross-border
Climate-Smart Ecosystem & Livelihood
- Reducing climate shocks before they become health crises.
Focus areas: Climate and health adaptation, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, sustainable livelihoods, water and environmental health, and human–wildlife coexistence.
Adaptive One Health
- Building systems that are people-centred.
Focus areas: Capacity strengthening, digital innovation, research and learning, data systems, policy and governance, and institutional coordination.
Hybrid Eco-Administrative “Clustered District” Landscape Model
“One Health” reflects the interconnectedness of human, animal, and ecosystem health. “Horizons” represents vision, innovation, anticipation, and the pursuit of new approaches to prevent risks, strengthen resilience, and create sustainable futures.
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