I was very pleased to learn the news that the journal Bioscience has accepted for publication my latest paper on translational gerontology and the One Health concept. The abstract:
The One Health concept has been invoked to foster collaborations at the intersection of human, animal and environmental health to address zoonotic disease risk. But the One Health concept is also helpful in framing and addressing the public health imperative to prevent and delay the onset of the chronic diseases of late life, to extend healthy life expectancy in ways that are environmentally sustainable and beneficial to animal and planetary health. This is an urgent global health imperative as healthy life expectancy is not increasing at the same pace as life expectancy, leading to more years being lived in poor health. This Forum article advances what is called the Geroscience Perspective on One Health, a framework which draws attention to the interdependence of healthy human aging and animal and environmental health by emphasizing the importance of pursuing non-pharmacological (environmental and lifestyle) and potential pharmacological (“gerotherapeutics”) interventions to increase healthspan.
I will post a link when the article is published (open access) in the next few weeks.
Cheers,
Colin