Report on the 2013 Conference on “A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions”

The 2013 Prince Mahidol Awards Conference on “A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions” was held on January 28 - February 2, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, in coordination with the 1st Global Conference on Regional Disease Surveillance Networks, 2nd International One Health Congress, and the Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Conference emphasized a One Health approach to preventing disease at the human-animal-ecosystems interface and had attendance from 970 participants from 73 countries.

"There is only one health to begin with, and to break apart human health and animal health and ecosystem health is a very anthropogenic way of thinking."- Dr. William Karesh