Further transdisciplinary efforts are clearly needed to address this link, key for understanding how plant populations 'move' across changing landscapes.
The One Health approach emphasizes the relatedness of human, animal, and environmental health (5 ) and the importance of transdisciplinary efforts (6 ).
"There's a need for transdisciplinary efforts—notice I said transdisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary," says Kenneth Ramos, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Louisville and EHP's toxicogenomics editor.
Ultimately, synergistic transdisciplinary and collaborative efforts hold promise to not only improve our mechanistic understanding but can also be expected to contribute to the development of specifically tailored ('individualized') intervention and targeted prevention programs in the future.
The Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation (Eco-DRR/CCA) approach (Renaud et al. 2016) could be considered an effort to develop transdisciplinary knowledge.
In 2011 Margot Parkes, then President of the International Association for Ecology and Health (EcoHealth), called for critical reflection on directions for ecohealth as a transdisciplinary field positioned among converging efforts (Parkes 2012).
The other difference is that Afrofuturism is now a transdisciplinary pan-African techno cultural movement.
Efforts therefore focus on applying a transdisciplinary approach to achieving sustained, bio-secure (without pesticide use), healthy communities (with healthy housing and water supplies) to prevent the spread of disease.
Additionally, it has formed part of the EPA Office of Research and Development ORD Nanomaterials Research Strategygy and is aligned with recent efforts within EPA to have a more "integrated, transdisciplinary" research program in the ORD.
We, therefore, issue a call for the US and China to lead efforts to improve the global environment for collaborative, transdisciplinary infectious disease research using a One Health approach.
