8th World One Health Congress

CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly-funded group of agrifood systems research centers, is a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.

This session showcases the CGIAR Initiative on One Health which has carried out research on antimicrobial resistance, food safety and zoonoses since 2022 and is starting a new phase from 2025 to 2030.

This is followed by the launch of a report on wild meat, a key new research area for CGIAR, and how One Health can contribute to more safe, sustainable and equitable use of wildlife resources.

• 0800–0900: Responding to global health challenges: CGIAR response
• 0900–0930: Launch of ILRI report: Eating wild animals: rewards, risks, and recommendations

• Towards operationalizing the One Health approach through policy in eastern and southern Africa: Understanding the current situation to address future concerns: Shauna Richards
• Financing, operationalizing, and implementing regional One Health coordination in Southeast Asia: Steven Lam

• Science-to-policy solutions to address food safety in Africa’s informal sector: Silvia Alonso

Panel discussion
ILRI panelist: Delia Grace

• Leveraging One Health approaches and innovations for resilient food, land and water systems: Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General, ILRI

ILRI panelist: Arshnee Moodley

Session chair: Delia Grace

• Demonstrating impact and lessons learnt through a large One Health research for development project: Lian Thomas

This session features salmonellosis, emerging zoonoses, connections between food safety and antimicrobial resistance, and the enigmatic association of Opisthorchis viverrini between humans and cats.  
Chair: Delia Grace

• Gender considerations in One Health: A framework for researchers: Zoë Campbell

• Expert panelist: Samuel Oyola

• Key influencers in Burkina Faso's poultry management: Insights from systems mapping and network analysis: Guy Ilboudo

Panel discussion

ILRI panelists: Arshnee Moodley, Delia Grace and Hung Nguyen-Viet

• Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in children, household livestock, and foods in a low-income peri-urban setting: Noah Okumu

• Genetic characteristics of Rift Valley fever virus responsible for the 2018 and 2022 outbreaks in livestock in Rwanda: John Juma

Chair: Hung Nguyen-Viet

• CGIAR One Health Initiative to address food system transformation in low- and middle-income countries: Hung Nguyen-Viet

Closing keynote

• "Have we learnt our lesson?”: Martyn Jeggo, Chair, ILRI Board of Trustees