Call for Papers

One Health, One Future: Bridging Health Security

One Health addresses the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, recognizing that health challenges do not exist in isolation and are not confined to national or regional borders. Emerging and reemerging zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and the impacts of climate change illustrate how disruptions in one domain can have cascading effects across others. Although, global travel, trade, and environmental degradation have substantially contributed to increasing the range of pathogens and vectors progress toward an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multisectoral approach to address One Health issues—supported by national and international policies that promote One Health—has been limited. 

This special feature of Health Security will be devoted to considering both existing methods and novel approaches for One Health practice and responses to public health emergencies. 

Under this submission, researchers, practitioners, and leaders from a diverse range of disciplines and expertise are invited to submit manuscripts that focus on at least 1 of the following content areas: 

• Emerging and Reemerging Zoonotic Diseases – How One Health Provides a Framework for Combatting Outbreaks: One Health offers approaches to manage biosecurity and biosafety concerns, addressing the risk of pathogen spillover between humans, animals, and the environment; exploring the interactions between environment and noncommunicable diseases; and promoting cross-sectoral collaboration for some of the most complex systemic health threats including antimicrobial resistance and environmental degradation.
• International Governance and One Health Policy Considerations: International governance plays a critical role in shaping One Health policy and action, ensuring that countries can collaborate to address health challenges across borders. One Health thrives through whole-of-government approaches which integrate efforts across health, agriculture, and environmental sectors to ensure robust responses to disease and environmental threats. By investing in coordinated efforts, the One Health paradigm presents a cost-effective strategy for addressing health risks by underscoring the importance of prevention, early detection, and cross-sectoral action. 
• One Health in Practice: Practicing One Health necessitates applying its principles to a variety of real-world challenges across the human, animal, and environmental interface. Some challenges may include creating effective surveillance methods across the One Health spectrum, ensuring food security, developing sustainable domestic and wildlife managements systems, and advocating for marginalized communities affected by the increasing complex interaction between themselves and their environment. 
• One Health and Security: Integrating One Health principles into security frameworks allows for effective actions to address cross-border health threats. By integrating its principles into trade, travel, and regional health considerations, One Health can contribute to preparedness and response efforts for both naturally occurring and deliberate events.
• Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier: Environmental health has gained attention as a key factor for One Health approaches in terms of climate change and its impacts on the health of the environment, humans and animals. Changes to climate influence the lifecycle and geographical range of pathogens, vectors, and reservoir hosts with downstream impacts on infectious diseases, zoonosis, food security, and food safety, and the local, regional, and global responses to them. 
• Future Directions in One Health: Emerging technologies, governance, and education integration will shape the future evolution of One Health. Integrating big data and digital tools, fostering greater cross-sectoral partnership and interregional dialogue, and effective training for the next generation of professionals ensures for effective efforts to respond to threats at the human, animal, and environmental interface. 

Articles on other aspects of One Health are also welcome. Research and practice reports will be prioritized for acceptance.

Questions about topics related to this special feature may be directed to Dr. Erin Sorrell (esorrell@jhu.edu) and Dr. Meghan Davis (mdavis65@jhu.edu), and questions about the submission process may be directed to Kathleen Fox (kathi.fox@jhu.edu).

Health Security, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is a bimonthly peer‐reviewed journal, now entering its 23rd year of publication. It serves as an international forum for debate and exploration of the key strategic, scientific, and operational issues posed by biological weapons, pandemics and emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and other threats to global health. The journal provides multidisciplinary analyses and perspectives essential to the creation of strategies and programs that can diminish the consequences of health emergencies, epidemics, and disasters. 

The journal’s international audience includes those professional communities that have strategic, scientific, or operational responsibilities critical to improving health security, including medicine, public health, law, national security, bioscientific research, agriculture, food safety, and drug and vaccine development. 

Health Security is indexed in MEDLINE; PubMed; PubMed Central; Current Contents®/Social & Behavioral Sciences; Social Sciences Citation Index®; Social SciSearch®; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; EMBiology; Scopus; ProQuest; CAB Abstracts; and Global Health.

Information for authors: Scholarly and review articles, case studies, and commentary manuscripts are welcome. Commentaries should be about 2,500 words, case studies about 4,000 words, and original research articles about 5,000 words, exclusive of the abstract, tables, figures, and references. Please consult the journal website (http://www.liebertpub.com/manuscript/hs) or the journal’s managing editor (kathi.fox@jhu.edu) for specific submission instructions.