The health and sanitation problems we are currently facing make evident the need for transdisciplinary work to achieve one health. The holistic vision of One Health provides the opportunity to create frameworks that connect health sciences with social and economic sciences that allow a proven approach to policy-making and cross sector collaboration to solve global health challenges between human, animal, crop and environmental health.
The cross-cutting problems evoked by climate change and the constant social transformation have highlighted the health risks derived from the socio-cultural context, hence the need for an ethical approach to the relevance of customs and habits, genetic changes of populations as well as agricultural practices that sustain food in Latin America.
The present conference contemplates the trans-disciplinary approach as an urgent need to address the health problems currently faced as a result of the social-cultural structures in which the ethical dilemmas of health are mixed with the agri-food transformation and the impact on animal and human health.
One Health relies on understanding the importance of the trans-disciplinary work taking into account the multifactorial and multisectoral perspective that allows to guarantee a healthier and sustainable world.