Publications
The BeOH community has authored or contributed to numerous publications on One Health, including research on COVID-19. The list below features publications by the BeOH Coordination Team, as well as papers identifying gaps and needs in the One Health framework.
Antimicrobial Resistance
- Using a Stakeholder Analysis to Implement the Belgian One Health National Report for Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (Cargnel et al., 2024)
- The use of aminopenicillins in animals within the EU, emergence of resistance in bacteria of animal and human origin and its possible impact on animal and human health (van Duijkeren et al., 2023)
- Animal sources of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections in humans: a systematic review (Fastl et al., 2023)
Climate and Environment
- The impact of climate and demographic changes on future mortality in Brussels, Belgium (Crouzier et al., 2024)
- Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature (Beele et al., 2024)
- Impact of short-term exposure to air pollution on natural mortality and vulnerable populations: a multi-city case-crossover analysis in Belgium (Demoury et al., 2024)
- Van intuïtief verband tot meervoudige maatschappelijke kansen en uitdagingen (Aerts et al., 2023)
- Impact of environmental nitrogen pollution on pollen allergy: A scoping review (Verscheure et al., 2023)
- Non-response bias in the analysis of the association between mental health and the urban environment: a cross-sectional study in Brussels, Belgium (Guyot et al., 2023)
Epidemiology
- Linking animal and human health burden: challenges and opportunities (Devleesschauwer et al., 2024)
- The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence (Di Bari et al., 2023)
Innovative and Generic One Health Approaches
- Towards facilitated interpretation of shotgun metagenomics long-read sequencing data analyzed with KMA (Gand et al., 2024)
- Development of a RT-ddPCR-based approach for SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance in wastewater (Van Poelvoorde et al., 2024)
- Transforming Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli surveillance through WGS in food safety practices (Nouws et al., 2023)
- Development of a portable metagenomic data workflow for pathogen and AMR surveillance (Bloemen et al., 2023)
One Health Framework
- Building the road to a One Health strategy on zoonotic disease prevention - Prevention at source in selected high risks activities, Recommendations for Policymakers, Memorandum (The Belgian PREZODE Expert Group, 2025)
- Policy Brief: Key Belgian One Health Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis (Belgian One Health Network, 2021)
- Lessons learnt from COVID-19: results from a Belgian One Health survey (Keune et al., 2020)
Report: the work of the Community of Practice on Biodiversity and One Health related to the COVID-19 pandemic context (Belgian Biodiversity Platform, 2020)
- Report of the One Health Belgium Network Launching event (Belgian One Health Network, 2020)
- Integrative policy development for healthier people and ecosystems: a European case analysis (White et al., 2020)
- Integrated Approaches to Health: Concepts and Experiences in Framing, Integration and Evaluation of One Health and EcoHealth (Rüegg et al., 2019)
- Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology (Assmuth et al., 2019)
- European Nature & Health network initiatives (Keune et al., 2019)
- A One Health evaluation framework, In: Integrated approaches to health : a handbook for the evaluation of One Health (Rüegg et al., 2019)
- The good, the bad and the ugly: framing debates on nature in a One Health community (Antoine-Moussiaux et al., 2019)
- The impact of human activities and lifestyles on the interlinked microbiota and health of humans and ecosystems (Flandroy et al., 2018)
- The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks (Keune et al., 2017)
- Research Brief: The Need for Enhanced Capacity Building in Belgium on Biodiversity & Health Science & Policy (BB&H Community of Practice, 2014)
- Science–policy challenges for biodiversity, public health and urbanization: examples from Belgium (Keune et al., 2013)
- Inventory of Scientific Research Needs and Ideas (Belgian Biodiversity Platform, 2012)
- Report of the 2011 Belgian Biodiversity - Public Health Conference (Belgian Biodiversity Platform, 2011)