COVID -19

Biodiversity and Health: COVID - 19 

The work of the Belgian Community of Practice on Biodiversity & Health (COPBH) related to the COVID-19 pandemic context.

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On the forefront of our work with Biodiversity and health is the Community of Practice on Biodiversity & Health (COPBH), which co-coordinated and facilitated the launch of the Belgian One Health Network. We launched the Community of Practice on Biodiversity and Health in 2011 and we have, since then, developed a growing network of stakeholders at both Belgian and global levels. The COPBH focuses both on nature related human health risks and benefits. This has been done through:

1. The co-organisation of networking events;

2. Science – policy – practice interface activity

3. Our Expert Registry and Projects Map

Resources on the relationship between COVID-19 within the context of Biodiversity and Health

2020

• Integrative policy development for healthier people and ecosystems: a European case analysis
• 4 Questions about OneHealth 

2019

• The good, the bad and the ugly: framing debates on nature in a One Health community
• Integrated Approaches to Health: Concepts and Experiences in Framing, Integration and Evaluation of One Health and EcoHealth. Lausanne: Frontiers Media.
• Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology
• European Nature & Health network initiatives, In: Melissa Marselle, Jutta Stadler, Horst Korn, Katherine Irvine and Aletta Bonn (eds) Biodiversity and Health in the face of climate change

2018

•  A One Health evaluation framework, In: Integrated approaches to health : a handbook for the evaluation of One Health

2012 - 2017

• The need for European OneHealth/ EcoHealth networks
• The Need For Enhanced Capacity Building In Belgium On Biodiversity & Health Science And Policy
• Science–Policy Challenges For Biodiversity, Public Health And Urbanization: Examples From Belgium
• Inventory of Research Needs and Ideas