Mekong One Health Innovation Program (MOHIP)

The project activities include a series of monthly webinars on health security issues, a virtual short course on ‘Health Security, One Health, and Zoonoses’ for Mekong researchers, and funding research projects pertinent to One Health and health security in the lower Mekong sub-region. The project seeks to develop and disseminate One Health promotion messages relevant to the beneficiary countries and communities. The research symposium, to be organized in the third year, will be the culmination of the project implementation, where researchers from the sponsored projects will share their findings with other stakeholders enabling Mekong country health experts, practitioners, and government officers to make informed decisions to streamline the One Health approach for strengthening and sustaining their health systems. The project expects to foster more substantial and sustained relationships between the U.S. and Mekong researchers and develop a vibrant multi-country network that will leverage resources to continue timely research on health security issues. Mekong researchers will further benefit by being able to devise health security solutions that fit their needs. Also, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam One Health University Networks are MOHIP collaborators.