Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health?

• DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1386298
• Publication Date: 2024-05-15T14:33:45Z
• Authors: Lucy Carter; Aditi Mankad; Walter Okello
• Keywords: Discipline; Interdisciplinarity

At its core, One Health promotes multidisciplinary cooperation amongst researchers and practitioners to improve the effectiveness management of complex problems raised by interplay human, animal environment interactions. Contemporary literature has identified reducing disciplinary barriers as key progress in field, along with addressing notable absence social sciences from frameworks, among other priorities. Efforts position scientists experts on behaviour change health decision-making helped articulate a concrete role for progressing collaborations. Yet, there are equally valuable functions scientist understanding systems, like Health. We make explicit multiple diverse knowledge contributions humanities can agenda. Articulating these more clearly invites broader set interdisciplinary perspectives discussions, allowing stronger connections between sectors, actors, disciplines, sub-systems. This perspective piece identifies range entry points better utilize potential scholars goals.