Re-imagining One Health: A perspective from social science

Authors

  • Maria Knight Lapinski Michigan State University (USA). 
  • Matthew Seeger Wayne State University (USA).
  • Deanna Sellnow University of Central Florida (USA).
  • Timothy Sellnow University of Central Florida (USA).
  • Teresa L. Thompson University of Dayton (USA).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.23821

Keywords:

One Health, interdisciplinary framework, risk, social sciences, zoonoses

Abstract

One Health is a framework focusing on the dynamic intersections between humans, animals, and ecosystems regarding health systems and practices. As human decisions and actions are the locus of One Health challenges, it is critical to understand how people perceive and act on these connections. Fundamentally, the literature in this area is based in the natural and health sciences; further efforts are still necessary to fully realize the potential of bringing social research squarely into One Health. We suggest several areas of scholarship that could move this effort forward.

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Author Biographies

Maria Knight Lapinski, Michigan State University (USA). 

Professor of the Department of Communication and Michigan AgBioResearch at Michigan State University (USA). Director of the Michigan State University Health and Risk Communication Center: Healthy People-Healthy Planet. From 2012 to 2016 she co-led an interdisciplinary collaboration: One Health: Emerging Communication Technology for Decision-Making and Behavior, which was seed-funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. She currently serves as a Commissioner for The Lancet ’s One Health Commission.

Matthew Seeger, Wayne State University (USA).

Professor of Communication at Wayne State University (USA). His books include Crisis and emergency risk communication (2nd edition, 2015), Narratives of crisis: Stories of ruin and renewal (2016), International handbook of crisis communication (2016), and Theorizing crisis communication (2021). He was the founding editor of The Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research .

Deanna Sellnow, University of Central Florida (USA).

Professor of Strategic Communication in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida (USA). Her research focuses on instructional communication in multiple contexts, particularly risk and crisis communication. Her work is widely published in interdisciplinary and international journals. She has completed funded research on instructional risk message design for such agencies as the United States Geological Survey, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Timothy Sellnow, University of Central Florida (USA).

Professor of Strategic Communication in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida (USA). His research focuses on risk and crisis communication. He has conducted funded research for the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, and the World Health Organization. He has also served in an advisory role for the National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Teresa L. Thompson, University of Dayton (USA).

Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton (USA). Her research focuses on health communication and gender, ethics, provider-patient interaction, and coping with bereavement. She has edited the journal Health Communication for almost 35 years and she has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including all three editions of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and the three volume SAGE Encyclopedia of Health Communication .

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2023-02-23

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Lapinski, M. K., Seeger, M., Sellnow, D., Sellnow, T., & Thompson, T. L. (2023). Re-imagining One Health: A perspective from social science. Metode Science Studies Journal, (13), 95–101. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.23821
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Science. The genesis of ideas (vol. 13, 2023)

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