The Mekong One Health Innovation Program (MOHIP) is a collaboration between the United States and researchers in the Mekong region to improve the health security system in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam while strengthening their One Health (human-animal-environment nexus) approach.
The project involves virtual training, including a week-long ‘Health Security, One Health and Zoonoses’ course for Mekong researchers and a series of monthly webinars related to health security with a One Health focus. The virtual training and webinars are essential to empower the local researchers and experts and sustain a long-term health security system in the region. The project is expected to foster stronger and sustained relationships between US and Mekong researchers and create a vibrant network that they will utilize to carry timely research on health security issues involving the One Health approach. Mekong researchers will learn about successfully applying new One Health tools to research health security issues in their region and apply their findings and resources to devise better health security solutions for the benefit of the whole region. Specifically, the project will fund six research projects for $30,000 each, proposed by Mekong researchers in areas and issues pertinent to their One Health and health security contexts.