About the platform
One Health Platform
A platform supporting integrated, data-driven decision-making across human, animal, plant, and environmental health.
Why One Health matters
The world is facing complex development challenges that directly affect health and wellbeing. These challenges show the close interconnection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health.
In response, the One Health approach has gained renewed global importance as a way to address these issues through integrated, holistic, and system-based thinking.
With the support of Sida, icipe and its partners are advancing a seminal One Health initiative that builds on existing expertise and partnerships in Ethiopia and Kenya.
At a glance
Integrated approach
Connects human, animal, plant, and environmental health in one decision-support framework.
Evidence-driven
Supports planning through data, modelling, forecasting, and geospatial insight.
Regional focus
Builds on expertise and partnerships in Ethiopia and Kenya to address real development challenges.
Policy relevance
Generates evidence and capacity to inform action, collaboration, and policy making.
Our purpose
Building on icipe’s 4Hs framework
For close to three decades, icipe’s research and development work has been guided by the 4Hs thematic approach: Human Health, Animal Health, Plant Health, and Environmental Health. This framework uses insects as a common thread for socio-economic transformation in Africa.
While each theme has its own distinct focus, their combined reach and impact reflect the kind of integrated thinking that sits at the heart of the One Health concept. In this sense, icipe has long been advancing a practical and visionary approach aligned with global One Health ambitions.
Through the Accelerating One Health interventions for tackling pandemics at source project, icipe is leveraging this foundation to respond to pest and disease challenges of One Health significance.
What this initiative delivers
Expected outcomes
- Strengthened multi-sectoral collaboration and partnerships on One Health
- Proactive surveillance, modelling, forecasting, and advisory systems for insect-related constraints
- Better understanding of invasive pest drivers, food safety risks, and intervention pathways
- Evidence generation to support policy making and capacity building across multiple levels
What the platform provides
Reliability and design
Built for dependable use
The platform is designed with reliability, scalability, and accessibility in mind, helping ensure consistent availability and a dependable user experience for researchers, stakeholders, and decision-makers.