Scilight Press

One Health Horizons (OHH) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science, theory, policy, and practice of One Health. The journal seeks to foster dialogue among academic researchers, policymakers, and practitioners and to promote international collaboration and intellectual exchange in One Health. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

One Health has become a globally recognized approach to integrating human, animal, and ecosystem health and advancing scientific understanding of our planet and the impacts of human activities on it. The One Health approach has become a unifying strategy for developing sustainable policy solutions to critical environmental and health challenges. Decades of research across ecology, social sciences, and health sciences have generated extensive primary data within individual fields. OHH provides a timely platform to synergise information across fields, to integrate science and policy, theory and practice, and to develop solutions for a healthier planet.

The journal adopts an inclusive view of One Health. It covers public health, the health of wild and domesticated animals, plant health, and the health of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. OHH particularly welcomes research that identifies and investigates connections and interactions among these sectors, supported by scientific evidence, primary field data, social science research, analyses of existing datasets, or theoretical and quantitative modeling. It also provides an outlet for case studies, analyses, and reviews addressing One Health policy and practice.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Environmental Change: Understanding the role of anthropogenic environmental change across One Health interfaces, including how long-term human-driven changes affect the health of people, animals, and ecosystems, such as climate change, demographic change, land-use change, and anthropogenic degradation of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems.
• Disease Ecology: Investigating the evolutionary dynamics and transmission of pathogens among people, wildlife, domestic animals, and other hosts, as well as the emergence of disease threats across communities, species, and regions, including antimicrobial resistance and Disease ‘X’.
• Public Health: Examining links between public health outcomes and environmental and ecological factors, including the effects of environmental change on physical and mental health, communities, and population well-being.
• Veterinary Research: Investigating the roles of anthropogenic, environmental, and ecological factors in wildlife and livestock health.
• Social Science Research: Exploring quantitative and qualitative dimensions of health within socio-ecosystem contexts. Exploring institutional-, community-, and population-based approaches to address One Health challenges through analyses and case studies.
• Economics: Examining behavioral and economic incentives and drivers underlying One Health challenges, as well as economic factors influencing health outcomes and policy measures that can support effective solutions.
• Policy Research: Examining policies designed to generate One Health solutions at local, national, regional, and global levels across the fields and topics covered by the journal, including policy case studies, analyses, and assessments.
• Practical One Health Solutions: Understanding and evaluating data-driven, practical solutions to health and environmental challenges, including environmental conservation and restoration, rewilding, sustainable management, behavioral interventions, institutional changes, community-based initiatives, and UN-led programs.

The journal publishes original research articles, analyses, reviews, perspectives, technical notes, short communications, policy and practice case studies, and other scholarly contributions. It strongly encourages studies that connect international groups, field sites, perspectives, and policies, as well as research that develops synergies and collaboration across disciplines and regions to advance One Health goals.