Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security and Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Launch New Assessment Manual for Zoonotic Diseases Coordination

December 11, 2023 – Today, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, launched the third edition of the One Health Systems Assessment for Priority Zoonoses (OHSAPZ) manual. The manual focuses on cross-sectoral prioritization of zoonotic diseases and systems mapping for One Health coordination.

This work was led by Drs. Erin Sorrell from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Claire Standley from the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security.

The OHSAPZ manual aims to facilitate systematically assessing structures and One Health coordination for preventing, detecting, and responding to zoonotic diseases.

The manual:

• supports the development of a list of priority zoonotic diseases;
• uses these identified priority diseases as case studies to examine the structures and mechanisms for communication and coordination between and within sectors, at all levels of the health system;
• and provides a framework for analyzing collected data to help identify gaps and develop recommendations for action.

Practitioners can access 11 planning templates for One Health disease prioritization within the OHSAPZ manual itself or via Google Docs.

The manual builds upon work by the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and Georgetown, which resulted in earlier editions of the tool that were refined, expanded, and tested by partners in multiple countries.

To access the One Health Systems Assessment for Priority Zoonoses (OHSAPZ) manual, please visit https://doi.org/10.57928/4755-9823

For additional inquiries related to the project, please contact Erin Sorrell at esorrell@jhu.edu and Claire Standley at Claire.Standley@georgetown.edu

For media inquiries, please contact Cagla Giray at cgiray1@jhu.edu