Strengthening One Health surveillance

There is a growing recognition of the importance of zoonoses to human health. This emphasizes the critical connections between animal health, human health and the environment. The surveillance on the animal health side and in the environment needs to be scaled up to set up a One Health surveillance for emerging and re-emerging pathogens based on a risk assessment. Strong1H is the result of a national collaboration between key medical, veterinary and public health including the environment institutes in the Netherlands which enables to build a One health surveillance network on national level in close cooperation with other European consortia focusing on similar OH surveillance systems. In the Netherlands, we identified gaps in the surveillance of the prioritized HPAIV, SwIAV, WNV and disease X especially in sampling and testing of wildlife (mammals and birds) and outdoor pigs currently not covered through other EU funded projects. Where possible samples will be used for multipurposes. We thus intend to improve, complement and consolidate the wildlife and environmental surveillance components for these diseases. The generated outcomes will be shared with EFSA and integrated for risk assessment with the data from other human and animal surveillance components already in place, such as the HPAIV dead wild bird data, the human influenza data, and the SwIAV commercial pig data, in a jointly accessible national OH platform. Experiences will also be shared with other consortia, by joint meetings and conferences. Strong1H is aiming to build a strong OH network in the NL, provide best practices by risk-based pilots in lacking components in wildlife and the environment, share and analyze data between domains in a OH approach, create a roadmap for OH surveillance systems and disseminate knowledge with stakeholders.