Welcome to the latest issue of One Health Focus. This newsletter reports on a wide range of activities of the One Health Forum of South Africa. In this edition, we focus on South Africa’s One Health framework, including its six strategic action tracks and key cross-cutting areas such as integrated surveillance, biosafety and biosecurity, laboratory systems, community engagement, workforce development, risk communication, and research and innovation. One Health Focus is an initiative of the national One Health Steering Committee of South Africa, led by the national Department of Health, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, with support from Future Africa at the University of Pretoria. The steering committee thanks all authors, reviewers and contributors who generously shared their insights, articles and updates. Their contributions help showcase South Africa’s growing One Health community and its work to strengthen multisectoral collaboration. This newsletter is produced with support from the Future Africa Communications Office, University of Pretoria, South Street, Koedoespoort, Pretoria. Cross-Cutting Areas Surveillance stream................................................. 17 Biosafety and biosecurity........................................19 Laboratory systems................................................. 21 Research and innovation........................................ 23 Risk communication and community engagement.............................................................. 25 23 One Health Focus issue 3 newsletter is available at https://www.futureafrica.science/resources/publications/ 02
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