King's College London

Health security sits at the intersection of complex biological, social, political, and economic dynamics. These interdisciplinary dynamics hold the potential to destabilise and degrade existing systems. One Health provides a framework to engage with these complex connections and address threats ranging from local food insecurity, national security against infectious agents to global geopolitical responses to global health threats.

Our programs blend cutting edge interdisciplinary One Health approaches with conflict and security studies to address global and local biological threats to human, animal, and ecological life. This theme mobilises and convenes academic, practice, policy, and industry partners to co-create new theoretical, operational, and strategic One Health insights shaping future security responses to vital questions including climate change, migration, emerging zoonotic disease, emerging technologies, bioterrorism, and antimicrobial resistance. We currently work on a number areas of key security interest including operational and strategic approaches to One Health in complex and contested settings, climate-related One Health security threats, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in conflict and security, the role of emerging technologies in shaping future One Health biothreats, and ways in which One Health can inform responses to attacks on health and health systems by terrorist, non-state, and state-based hostile actors.

Key resources:

• The One Health in Complex Settings (OHICS) network project brings together multiple stakeholders from academia, industry, and policy groups to understand novel forms of evidence and to co-create new solutions between policy, academia, and practice to develop future One Health policies.
• The ORBITS Project using One health to Map Interdisciplinary Frontiers
• One Health Tropical Wetlands: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Assessing the Risks of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases in the Brazilian Pantanal