One Health governance and implementation in Oceania

One Health governance and implementation in Oceania – capacity building needs, policy tools and upcoming SPREP support

Attribution: Hitziger, M., Esposito, R., Canali, M., Aragrande, M., Häsler, B., & Rüegg, S. R. (2018). Knowledge integration in One Health policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 96(3), 211–218

Summary

The WOAH Pacific Wildlife Health Network (PWHN) held its 10^th meeting on 11 June 2026. The meeting was attended by representatives from Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, United States of America, Wildlife Conservation Society, WOAH and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

The meeting focused on the topic of One Health governance and implementation in Oceania – capacity building needs, policy tools and upcoming SPREP support. The meeting featured two experts in this field who were invited to deliver presentations outlined below:

• Martin Hitziger – CITES – CMS Pacific Officer, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme “One Health implementation and governance in Oceania – capacity building needs and policy tools”, PDF, video recording
• Jope Davetanivalu – Director Environmental Governance Programme, SPREP, “SPREP’s role in strengthening One Health implementation and governance in Oceania through the UNEP Nature for Health (N4H) initiative”, PDF, video recording

The 11^th meeting for the PWHN will be scheduled later in 2026 with a topic chosen from ideas previously put forward by participants.

Recording

You may also view video recordings of the presentations below.