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The Vietnam One Health Lab is a collaborative initiative implemented by IEHSD in collaboration with ILRI, aiming to establish and operate One Health field facilities in Lao Cai and Thai Nguyen. This initiative contributes to operationalizing activities under two ILRI-implemented projects in Vietnam: the Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Food (SAAF) in Thai Nguyen and the Improving human health through sustainable value chains in human-animal-environmental interactions using ICT in Vietnam (ICT4Health).

Vietnam National One Health University Network (VOHUN) and Institute of Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (IEHSD), in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and funding support from the U.S. Department of Defense Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), will host the fifth year of the Vietnam One Health Biorisk Management case-based learning remote engagement monthly series

– Local partners: DAH, Sub-DAH in Vietnam

SARS-CoV-2 PPE – PART II: Gloves and Gowns from a One Health Multisector Biorisk Management Perspective

– Local partners: over 30 in Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Bac Giang, & Ha Noi

Organisational development and capacity building require both individual and collective efforts. As a Gender Advisor, my role includes developing the capacity of the team at the Institute of Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (IEHSD) to develop gender responsive technical solutions within the scope of the projects the organization works on. Projects focus on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, plastic pollution, biorisk management, COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement, and zoonotic diseases. A One Health approach is applied across all projects of the organization. IESHD, the Center for Public Health and Ecosystems Research (CENPHER) and the Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN) together form the Vietnam One Health Alliance (VOHA). Not only are the projects implemented by IEHSD, CENPHER and VOHUN connected in their application of One Health but are also interconnected with and inform one another.

– Local partners: Greenhub, IPSONRE, GIMASYS, Plastic Action Health Network members, and provincial level partners in Da Nang, Quang Nam and Hanoi

Project Title: Local Solutions for Plastic Pollution (LSPP project) Location: 3 cities: Hanoi (Hoan Kiem District), Da Nang and Hoi An (Quang Nam) Period: 3 years (1st August 2020 – July 31st 2023) Donor: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Project implementers:

– Local partners: 04 universities in Thai Nguyen, Dak Lak, and Tra Vinh provinces, CDC, district healthcare centers, health workers, Women’s Union, Youth Union, and  representatives of communes

– Local partners: GDPM, DAH, NIHE, NCVD, TIHE, PI Nha Trang, PI Ho Chi Minh City,  Military Medical University  and VOHUN university members

The biological surveillance and early detection of biological incidents to address emerging infectious diseases in Vietnam and also in Southeast Asia are limited, and this poses numerous complex long-term challenges to the Southeast Asia community. Especially, the limitation of practical knowledge and exercises for health care workers and medical students in biosafety practices in laboratories could lead to the low capacity to take surge actions in management and control of future pandemics.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Biological Threat Reduction Program (DTRA BTRP) Ministry of Health General Department of Preventive Medicine (MoH GDPM), Ministry of Agriculture Rural Development Department of Animal Health (MARD DAH), and Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN) share a common goal building capacity to manage, operate, and sustain biologically safe and secure laboratory operations throughout the country, biological research, disease management, and enhanced global disease surveillance systems for early pathogen detection and response.