Building A Better Future With 'Just' One Health

About this episode

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian discusses the Just One Health framework and its vision for a future focused on prevention and well-being.

Prevention is the most powerful public health tool we have and yet the hardest to fund. Dr. Hope Ferdowsian of Phoenix Zones Initiative explains how her organization is changing that: informing global health strategies, training cross-sector professionals, and advancing a justice-centered framework called Just One Health that targets root causes, not symptoms. She also shares a bold 10-year vision — where well-being replaces GDP, animals gain rights recognition, and prevention is the default....

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Guest: Dr. Hope Ferdowsian

Topics covered

• public health
• prevention
• global health strategies
• justice-centered framework
• animal rights
• well-being

Keywords

• public health
• Just One Health
• prevention
• global health
• animal rights
• well-being
• justice

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Organizations: Phoenix Zones Initiative

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