Title: Supporting the designation of 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 supports the designation of 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]
[H. Res. 794 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 794

  Supporting the designation of 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2020

    Mr. Schrader (for himself and Mr. Yoho) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Supporting the designation of 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 
        changes to the environment make the necessity of One Health clear and 
        demand 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 House of Representatives supports the 
designation of ``National One Health Awareness Month''--
            (1) to promote awareness of organizations that focus on One 
        Health efforts to improve the quality of life for people and 
        animals;
            (2) to recognize the efforts made by those organizations in 
        using a One Health approach to prevent epidemics; and
            (3) to 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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