Building Public Health Preparedness and Food and Agriculture Defense Capabilities Using Whole Community and One Health Concepts
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Joseph S. Lombardo
Abstract
Emergency managers are embracing the Whole Community approach described in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) preparedness policy, doctrine, and guidance. The Whole Community approach entails broad collaboration and integration of effort among multiple disciplines and preparedness partners to coordinate solutions for all threats and hazards. Potential public health emergencies – to include foodborne and animal disease outbreaks – are issues on the emergency management agenda requiring such broad coordination. Scientists and public health practitioners across multiple disciplines describe a philosophy very similar to “Whole Community” known as “One Health,” linking efforts to address the shared threats to human, animal and environmental health. This paper recommends a coordinated strategy for FEMA to link “Whole Community” and “One Health” tenets as part of a national preparedness effort.
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For the purposes of this paper and the sake of simplicity, the broad term “food and agriculture defense” means all threats and hazards affecting food production and also includes the management of and response to diseases affecting agricultural animals.
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Per the National Preparedness Goal, Protection is defined as “the capabilities necessary to secure the homeland against acts of terrorism and manmade or natural disasters.”
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Per the National Preparedness Goal, Response is defined as “the capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred.”
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