One Health
Welcome to OneHealth@Adelaide University.
Our vision is for a healthy, resilient world for all living things and their environments.
Our mission is to promote and advance impactful education, research, and practical applications in the field of One Health.
What is One Health?
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.
The One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) | One Health Outlook (2024)
One Health is the interconnection of human, animal and environmental health.
Underlying One Health principles are:
In line with these underlying principles, the role of OH@AU, is to coordinate, promote, and facilitate One Health activities in collaboration with stakeholders.
Contact us
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Business development and partnering opportunities, contact the Business Development Team
Media enquiries, contact the Media Team
For further information on OneHealth, please email us at: onehealth@adelaide.edu.au
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Researchers
Dr Adriana Milazzo
OneHealth Collaborative Lead
Infectious disease epidemiology, climate change and population health, and One Health.Professor Michael Beard
OneHealth Collaborative Lead
Molecular virology and cellular interactions of positive sense RNA viruses.Dr Anne-Lise Chaber
OneHealth Collaborative Lead
One Health and disease detection and management at the wildlife-livestock-human interface. Currently working at the WHO Organisation as a One Health Expert.Associate Professor Barbara Drigo
Microbial ecology, antimicrobial resistance, wastewater-based epidemiology, plant-soil-microbial interactions, climate change.Carmel Williams
Director of the Centre for HiAP Research Translation, Co- Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Advancing Health in All Policies,Professor Craig Williams
Biological, Environmental, Medical and Health Sciences, Ecosystems, Zoology, microbiology, vector-borne disease (STEM)Dr Laura Falkenberg
Marine Biologist and Ecologist investigating the impacts of human activities on coastal marine organisms, their ecosystems and services to human societiesDr Mark Kohler
Psychologist focussing on Cognitive and Behavioural development and Psychophysiology.Dr Mira Cooper
Environmental health researcher investigating environmental impact on human health with the One Health approachProfessor Patrick O'Connor AM
Director, Centre for Global Food and Resources. Research interests include Ecosystem service markets, agro-ecosystems focusing on health and biodiversity.Associate Professor Rietie Venter
Microbiology, AMR, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical Microbiology.Associate Professor Wayne Boardman
Conservation of endangered species, emerging wildlife diseases, wildlife disease ecology, health and diseases of Australian native wildlife.Professor Helen Marshall
Clinical Research Director - Women’s and Children’s Health, medical researcher with specialist training in child health, public health and vaccinology.Professor Phil Weinstein
Healthy ecosystems and healthy humans, Biodiversity, mosquito-borne and other diseases.Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray
Deputy Director ISER, Director of ACE, Coordinator: FAME Sustainability Strategy. Investigates the connection between people and the environmentProfessor Phill Cassey
Leads the Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Group. A leading global change and conservation biologistProfessor Peng Bi
Environmental health, climate change, infectious diseases, emergency public health event response and population healthProfessor Andy Lowe
Director, Environment Institute. Specialises in Plant ecology and Evolutionary GeneticsProfessor Fran Baum AO
A Public Health social scientist with a special interest in creating healthy, equitable and sustainable societies.Aleena Iype
Researching the complex intersections between wildlife trade, emerging infectious diseases, and biosecurity risks to inform national biosecurity frameworks and protocols.Toby Hughes
Researching early life factors that influence health and development throughout childhood and early adult life, specifically in interactions between the genome, the epigenome, the environment and the commensal bacteria (the microbiome).Dr Jessica Webb
Pathogen genomics, One health genomics, genomic epidemiology, computational microbiology, bioinformatics -
News & events
News
One Health implementation: A systematic scoping review using the Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action - ScienceDirect (Adriana Milazzo, Jingwen Liu, Priyanka Multani, Sandra Steele, Elizabeth Hoon, Anne-Lise Chaber)
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Events
The HEAL National Research Network is hosting its annual conference from 4 - 6 November 2025.
With the theme of 'Weaving Diverse Knowledges into Climate Action for Better Health’, this event will provide a dynamic, inclusive and decentralised platform for diverse research, policy and practice communities within the HEAL Network to come together sharing knowledge, evidence and ideas.
Find out more and register to attend (no registration fees).
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Resources
Links to resources
WHO (World Health Organisation) - One Health WHO - One health Resources and Training
WHO (World Health Organisation) - Training Academy WHO Academy
UN EP (United Nations Environmental Programme) UN EP - Publications & data
IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) Education | IFRC
FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations) One Health Operational Tools
FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations) FAO Knowledge Repository
CDC (Centre for Disease Control, USA) Resources CDC - One Health
CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) Publications - CGIAR
One Health Commission One Health LIBRARY - One Health Commission
Interim Australian CDC (Centre for Disease Control) CDC Resources
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) CSIRO Research
Wildlife Health Australia Wildlife Health Australia Resources
WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health Publications - WOAH
Reports
WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health The State of the World's Animal Health 2025 - WOAH
Australian Government One Health Master Action Plan for Australia's National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy - 2020 and beyond | Antimicrobial resistance
Publications
Lefrançois, T. et al. (2025). A new definition of human health is needed to better implement One Health, The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10504, 672-675, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01015-3.
Roger, F., Olive, M., Peyre, M., Pfeiffer, D., & Zinsstag, J. (2025). One Health Atlas. In éditions Quae eBooks. https://doi.org/10.35690/978-2-7592-4027-2
Winkler, Andrea S et al. (2025). The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems. The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10502, 501 – 570, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00627-0
Sukumar, S. et al. (2023). Development of the oral resistome during the first decade of life. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1291-1-1291-14.
Espinoza, J.et al. (2022). Differential network analysis of oral microbiome metatranscriptomes identifies community scale metabolic restructuring in dental caries. PNAS Nexus, 1(5), pgac239-1-pgac239-16.
Freire, M., Moustafa, A., Harkins, D., Torralba, M., Zhang, Y., Leong, P., . . . Nelson, K. (2020). Longitudinal study of oral microbiome variation in twins. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 7954-1-7954-10.