One Health Pilot Project

Recently, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, launched ‘One Health’ pilot project in Uttarakhand to implement the One Health Framework by One Health Support Unit.

• The key objective of the Unit is to develop a national One Health roadmap based on the learnings of the pilot project implementation.

Major Highlights

• Key activities to be undertaken as part of the pilot project-
• Institutionalizing the mechanism for data collection on disease outbreaks;
• Prevalence, management, and development of targeted surveillance plan;
• Integrating network of laboratories;
• Developing and implementing communication strategy across sectors; and
• Integration of the data with the digital ....