The One Health concept provides a framework to examine the linkages
between human, animal, plant, environmental, and ecosystem health. This
framework can be represented as a multi-dimensional matrix tool that can
be used to examine and address complex GeoHealth challenges. This matrix
tool facilitates comprehensive, systems-based thinking and can include
up to four dimensions depending upon users' needs. This presentation
will briefly review the One Health matrix tool and apply it, as an
example, to examine the global impact of human and animal fecal wastes.
Applying the tool reveals linkages between food-borne illnesses, food
insecurity, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change. Understanding
these linkages is necessary for developing effective and equitable
public policies that are needed to achieve many of the United Nations'
Sustainable Development Goals.