Title: A resolution designating January 2020 as "National One Health Awareness Month" to promote awareness of organizations focused on public health, animal health, and environmental health collaboration throughout the United States and to recognize the critical contributions of those organizations to the future of the United States.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution designates January 2020 as National One Health Awareness Month and recognizes the importance of the One Health approach to protecting the health of people, animals, plants, and the environment. One Health is a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 462 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 462

Designating January 2020 as ``National One Health Awareness Month'' to 
  promote awareness of organizations focused on public health, animal 
 health, and environmental health collaboration throughout the United 
      States and to recognize the critical contributions of those 
           organizations to the future of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2019

  Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Ms. McSally, Ms. Smith, Mr. Brown, Mr. 
 King, Mr. Casey, and Mr. Peters) submitted the following resolution; 
                   which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Designating January 2020 as ``National One Health Awareness Month'' to 
  promote awareness of organizations focused on public health, animal 
 health, and environmental health collaboration throughout the United 
      States and to recognize the critical contributions of those 
           organizations to the future of the United States.

Whereas One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary 
        approach, working at the local, regional, national, and global levels, 
        with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the 
        interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared 
        environment;
Whereas the mission of One Health is to establish closer professional 
        interactions, collaborations, and educational opportunities across the 
        various medical, veterinary, and environmental health professions and 
        their allied science professions to simultaneously improve public 
        health, animal health, and environmental health;
Whereas the increasing threats posed by emerging diseases shared between animals 
        and people, foodborne, vector-borne, and waterborne diseases, and other 
        environmental factors may support the need for an integrated effort by 
        professionals from multiple disciplines, including health, science, 
        technology, and engineering;
Whereas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 75 
        percent of new or emerging infectious diseases in people are spread by 
        animals;
Whereas, each year, International One Health Day is November 3; and
Whereas One Health is essential to combating and strengthening the surveillance 
        of emerging and reemerging diseases: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates January 2020 as ``National One 
Health Awareness Month'' to--
            (1) promote awareness of organizations that focus on One 
        Health efforts to improve the quality of life for people and 
        animals;
            (2) recognize the efforts made by such organizations in 
        using a One Health approach to prevent epidemics; and
            (3) recognize the importance of using the One Health 
        approach to simultaneously protect the health of people, 
        animals, plants, and the environment in the United States.
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