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. 2018 Sep 8;7:100073. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2018.08.002

Table 2.

OHCEA OHCC Domains, Definitions, Subdomains, and Example Competencies.

Domains Subdomains Definitions Example core competencies
Management Planning
Management
Monitoring and evaluation
Sustainability
The process of planning, designing, implementing, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating One Health programs to maximize the effectiveness of OH action and desired health outcomes Resource management and mobilization across sectors
Create a OH action plan
Ability to develop and apply M&E tools across disciplines
Ability to plan for management of diseases (prevention, eradication and control)
Ability to mobilize and manage resources (e.g. human, material and financial)
Identify and prioritize OH related problems
Communication Informatics Acquisition, synthesis, and exchange of information across sectors, disciplines, and stakeholders to enhance and promote a common understanding of OH action Develop a common understanding of the concept OH (knowledge of the concept, understanding the concept)
Stakeholder/audience analysis
Demonstrate capacity for connectivity within and across professions
Demonstrate effective communication skills across OH activities and develop communication strategies (to effectively communicate with communities, scientist, policy makers (leaders)
Values and Ethics The demonstration of integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, adaptability, and respect in OH action in diverse contexts Promote transparency and accountability
Be aware of own responsibility for the protection of the public
Discipline and respect
Demonstrate courage and perseverance in OH relevant situations
To be able to demonstrate accountability responsibility honesty and respect
Leadership Teamwork
Professionalism
Emotional intelligence
Initiate a shared vision; create, inspire, and motivate teams across sectors; execute a role; and manage OH actions Promote mutual respect between different [professional] corporations
Develop an integrative vision, and strategic thinking
Ability to motivate, delegate, Resource mobilization
Demonstrate decisiveness and effective teamwork in OH relevant situations
Leadership skills (negotiation skills, lobbying)
To be able to mobilize, coach, and mentor others
Motivate diverse disciplines towards OH goals
Influence OH stakeholder
Collaboration and Partnership Community participation and engagement
Stakeholder
analysis
Identify, foster, and sustain equitable relationships with stakeholders while advancing OH actions Recognize own limitations and develop the spirit of complementarity (for each discipline), Networking
Diplomacy and international relations
Ability to identify potential partners and to identify interdependence within and among institutions, establish networking, collaborate within and outside
Demonstrate a commitment to building a trusting partnership
Identification of stakeholders
Creation and maintenance of strong links among stakeholders
Organize diversity into common vision
Systems Thinking One Health knowledge Comprehensive approach that recognizes and appreciates how the dynamic interactions and interdependencies among entities within an ecosystem affect the functioning of the system Develop a strategic vision based on opportunities and threats
Apply systemic approach to understanding disease outbreaks
Model and apply an effective systemic approach to addressing relevant OH issues
Identify and explain core OH principles
Apply OH principles in one's practice
To have a knowledge on ecosystem health
Gender, Culture
and Beliefs
The diverse social norms, values, roles, and practices among individuals and within communities and agencies Understanding and appreciating cultural/ethnic diversity
Demonstrate cultural and situational sensitivity in interactions with the local communities
Ability to recognize cultural diversity and respect of cultural differences among different stakeholders
Ability to reshape cultures, beliefs and practices for proper management of diseases
Identify gender roles access and control over resources and impacts on One Health
Ensure gender equity
Policy and Advocacy Lobbying
Regulation
Legislation
Legal frameworks and other legitimate factors supporting and promoting implementation of OH approaches Policy awareness, policy brief writing skills
Skills to lobby, stakeholder engagement
Identify relevant existing policies for OH concerns, design a policy to address a gap, advocate effectively for policy implementation in response to gaps identified in assessment exercises, establishment of OH data bases
Share existing data across disciplines, compile new data
Research Systematic investigation through multidisciplinary and intersectoral approaches to generate, validate, disseminate, and use OH knowledge Develop an evidence-based practice
Develop multidisciplinary and collaborative research
Synthesize new and existing knowledge by examining ways to undertake academic research One Health.
Critique research publications and reports regarding One health and identify ways to incorporate One health into them
Design and conduct [create] academic qualitative and/or quantitative One health research.