Zoonotic Disease Action Package (ZDAP)
The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Zoonotic Disease Action Package (ZDAP) aims to support its members to develop and strengthen their capacity and capability to prepare for, prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic disease threats, using a One Health approach.
The ZDAP community seeks to implement guidance and models on behaviors, policies, and practices to minimize the spill over, spread, and full emergence of zoonotic disease into or out of human populations proper to the development of efficient human-to-human transmission.
Mission Statement
All members of our ZDAP community have one common and unifying goal – to improve singularly and collectively our capacity to prepare, prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic diseases. We do this by working and learning together, in a community that embraces inclusivity and collaboration at its core, to strengthen every link in the global health security chain.
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are infectious diseases transmissible from animals to humans through direct contact or through indirect contact via food, water, and the environment. Approximately 60% of pathogens that cause human diseases originate from animals, and include examples such as rabies virus, zoonotic influenzas and Salmonella spp.
Interactions at the interface between humans, animals, and our shared environments can be a source of known zoonoses, as well as drive the emergence or spillover of new zoonoses. These infections can directly and indirectly impact the health of the at-risk human and animal populations, as well as causing wider ramifications to the social and economic well-being of humans, and significantly adversely affecting our environment. The One Health approach supports increased collaboration, communication, coordination and capacity building at the human-animal-plant-environment interface to address shared health threats.
The One Health definition developed by the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) states [1]:
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent. The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate change, and contributing to sustainable development.
Figure 1. The One Health approach schematic definition developed by the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) [1].
ZDAP aims to support its members to develop and strengthen their capacity and capability to prepare for, prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic disease threats, using a One Health approach.
Contributing Members
Contributing Members
ZDAP 2023 Chair
The United Kingdom (UK Health Security Agency and the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs)
ZDAP Leadership Support Group
Indonesia, Senegal, Việt Nam
Activity Prioritisation Working Group
The Netherlands, Mozambique, the United Kingdom, and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC)
Organizations
Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Global Health Security Agenda Consortium (GHSAC)
Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN)
World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH founded as OIE)
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC)
ZDAP Monthly Meetings
February 2023 – Thailand’s recent experience undergoing IHR – JEE 3.0
March 2023 – Pandemic Prevention presentations and discussion
April 2023 – Presentation from the One Health Poultry Hub
May 2023 – Bangladesh’s Nipah virus surveillance program and Rift Valley Fever in Southern Africa
Contact Us
Interested in joining ZDAP? Please fill out the contact form with your information.
Email: ghsa.zdap@gmail.com