25 TOWARDS A ONE HEALTH APPROACH The aim of the One Health concept is to highlight the close links between the health of humans, animals and ecosystems. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH The One Health concept promotes a multidisciplinary and global approach to health challenges and focuses primarily on infectious diseases – whether transmission is from animals to humans or vice versa, their emergence in connection with global changes, antimicrobial resistance and food safety. Thanks to our expertise in human, animal and environmental health, Cerba HealthCare is developing synergies between experts to advance the health of everyone, patients and animals alike. A GROUP AT THE FOREFRONT OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE In its capacity as reference laboratory in France, Laboratoire Cerba is at the forefront of epidemiological surveillance. The global scope of its activity makes it particularly informed of regional variations in viral genotypes, thereby providing accurate and fully up-to-date knowledge of the spread of viruses and optimal therapeutic strategies. Laboratoire Cerba is able to react very quickly to new infectious threats and develop new tests in a very short time to offer clinicians, patients and health authorities diagnostic opportunities that are rapid and reliable. Cerba HealthCare is therefore a trusted partner of the health authorities in monitoring emerging epidemics such as COVID-19 and infectious diseases such as measles or arthropod-borne viruses (dengue, Zika, chikungunya, etc.). INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS Since 2022, webinars on the topic of One Health have been held by Cerba Vet College in collaboration with Laboratoire Cerba, the Cerballiance network, or partners such as Institut Pasteur. These training sessions, which in 2022 looked at toxoplasmosis, urinary tract infections and diphtheria, have interested a wide variety of professionals (general practitioners and specialists, pathologists, veterinarians, midwives, technicians, teacher-researchers, nurses, specialised veterinary assistants, etc.). In this way, they enable human and animal health professionals to respond jointly to the challenges posed by these infections, common to humans and animals. DEVELOP NEW EXPERTISE Other projects on human health in relation to our ecosystems are emerging within the Group. With regard to endocrine disruptors and pesticides, whose health effects evaluation represents a major public health issue, Laboratoire Cerba is developing tests to measure in patients levels of phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) – endocrine disruptors that can induce effects on development and reproduction.
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