This is new teaching/training that have been created in our academic environment for graduate and pos-graduate students and researcher. This is the first course of its kind that formalizes shared thinking about the risk of disease spread and in particular the pandemic risk due to COVID-19, the risk of border transgression by pathogens dates back to antiquity and this biological risk is often neglected or little taken into account at borders.This biohazard is directed at both humans and animals, and at crops and multiple consumer products for human and animal consumption.

Santé Plus is a dedicated pubic health non-governmental organization in Guinea that focuses on training, capacity strengthening, and research. It works with academic partners and the Guinea One Health Coordination Office for Zoonotic Disease on One Health objectives including surveillance, preparedness and response, education and outreach. The surveillance goal is to identify opportunities for coordinating zoonotic disease surveillance across animal health, human health and environmental health sectors and to implement processes to improve sharing between sectors.

The Dr. Gregory D. Bossart Memorial One Health Scholarship was launched in 2021 by the One Health Commission and Georgia Aquarium for one student, from anywhere in the world, who is leading a graduate or clinical research project focused on the interconnection between animals, people, plants, and their shared environment. The inaugural $5,000 USD Scholarship Award went to Taylor Weary for her One Health Project titled: ‘Healthy Children, Healthy Chimps: Reducing respiratory disease transmission from humans to chimpanzees in Uganda’