One health: Why Ghana cannot fight the next disease outbreak alone

It will mean joint surveillance, where unusual animal deaths on a farm in the Ashanti Region are reported through a system that veterinary and public health authorities can both see, rather than sitting in a district office notebook.

It will mean joint training, so that veterinary officers, district health directors, and environmental health officers understand each other's early warning signs and speak a common language during an outbreak.

In practice A functioning One Health system in Ghana would mean several things working together.