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If you are so inclined, download the Huff files and look in the folder marked “relevant”.

In there you will find an MSWord document titled: “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence 7 Full Refs”

It is a real slog for me because of my limited clinical laboratory knowledge...tooo many fluffy words.

It might take a while but I’ve come across several interesting items in that document.

From PeterDazsak.pdf in the docs, a relevant passage is Developing the field of ‘One Health’ and ‘EcoHealth’ in research and policy. Throughout my career I have worked collaboratively across medical, veterinary and ecological disciplines. During the last couple of decades, I’ve tried to solidify this approach by becoming very active in the fields of ‘One Health’ and ‘EcoHealth’. I’ve written a series of book chapters and reviews on these issues, serve on national and international committees for both fields, am an editor of the journal One Health and Editor-in-Chief of the journal EcoHealth, and am the CEO of the EcoHealth Alliance. I have begun to work with economic modelers to assess how efficient One Health approaches could be in global efforts to deal with emerging diseases (e.g. Pike et al., 2014; Castillo-Chavez et al., 2015). My aim is to use these analyses, and wealth of other published work to influence health and environmental policy so that the One Health approach is adopted widely for the benefit of public health and conservation. To help solidify this, I’ve been very active on the boards of, or working with national and intergovernmental agencies for health (IOM Forum on Microbial Threats; International EcoHealth Society; One Health Commission; One Health Platform) and Conservation (IUCN, CBD, DIVERSITAS, Future Earth). I have also published extensively on the policy implications of this work (e.g. Smith et al., 2009; Rodriguez et al., 2007).

OneHealth ties in health, sustainable agriculture, and ecological stuff in one nice domineering package. THe Bill and Melinda GatesofHell Foundation funds it.