One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP)

The One Health advisory group for Quadripartite organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

The One Health High-Level Expert Panel is the scientific and strategic advisory group to the Quadripartite organizations - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) – in their collaboration on One Health.

The One Health High-Level Expert Panel has provided critical advisory to the Quadripartite in its first term which concluded on 31st December 2023. It has produced many impactful deliverables which can be found on our webpage.

A new Call for Experts was issued for Term II in October 2023 with a vision to augment the panel to provide advisory across all action tracks of the One Health Joint Plan of Action and utilizing the three pathways of change.

After careful consideration of all applications submitted to the Quadripartite, 29 individuals have been appointed as OHHLEP members, with expertise in a range of areas. The members will serve the second term of OHHLEP from April 2024 to April 2026.

Further details about panel composition, Terms of Reference, Meetings and Thematic groups can be accessed through the related links.

Current Terms

OHHLEP Term II (2024 - on going)

Find all the information and resources currently developed by the second OHHLEP Term.

Previous Terms

OHHLEP Term I (2021-2023)

Find all the information and resources developed by the first OHHLEP Term.

The One Health definition developed by the OHHLEP

CIFOR/Axel Fassio

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.

ILRI/Hung Nguyen-Viet

It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.

CIFOR/Axel Fassio

The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate change, and contributing to sustainable development.