The initiative
One Health connects the systems that shape health.
People, animals, plants, and the environment affect one another every day. One Health brings the relevant fields together so they can recognize shared risks, exchange useful knowledge, and respond with a clearer view of the whole situation.
Veterinarians see these connections in clinical care, disease recognition, food safety, animal welfare, agriculture, shelters, laboratories, wildlife, and emergency response. NMVMA is using that statewide veterinary perspective to lead the NMVMA One Health Initiative.
The initiative is being developed in collaboration with the New Mexico Public Health Association, Project ECHO, and NMSU Global. Each organization contributes a different strength while NMVMA provides the veterinary anchor, convening role, and connection to members across the state.
NMVMA leads the initiative.
NMVMA sets the veterinary priorities, brings forward member and community questions, connects the appropriate collaborators, and shares confirmed opportunities and resources.
Why it matters in New Mexico
Connected work makes expertise easier to use.
New Mexico communities span long distances and many practice settings. A useful One Health network helps the right information move among people who may otherwise work in separate systems.
Recognize signals earlier
Veterinary teams, public-health professionals, laboratories, producers, wildlife specialists, and communities often see different parts of the same issue. Sharing observations can strengthen situational awareness.
Connect people to the right pathway
Clear contacts and referral routes help professionals know where to report, whom to consult, and which agency or organization is responsible.
Learn across distance
Virtual case-based learning and flexible online resources can make specialized knowledge more reachable for rural, frontier, and time-constrained professionals.
Prepare before an emergency
Relationships built in advance support clearer communication and coordination during outbreaks, wildfire, extreme weather, animal displacement, and other emergencies.
How the initiative works
Questions move from the field into shared learning and practical action.
NMVMA is organizing the initiative around a repeatable learning-to-action cycle. Individual activities will be announced when the topic, participants, resources, schedule, and approvals are confirmed.
Listen
Members and collaborators identify questions, recurring needs, emerging concerns, and gaps in access.
Connect
NMVMA brings together the fields and people needed to understand the issue from more than one perspective.
Learn
Project ECHO can support live, virtual, case-based learning when an ECHO activity is ready to launch.
Extend
NMSU Global can help translate approved content into flexible resources and microlearning for use across the state.
Apply
Participants carry useful knowledge, contacts, tools, and questions back to their practices and communities.
Connected focus areas
The initiative follows issues across professional boundaries.
Topics can enter the initiative wherever animal, human, plant, environmental, agricultural, or community health intersect.
Human and public health
Prevention, epidemiology, community health, laboratories, clinical care, communication, and health equity.
Animal health and welfare
Companion animals, livestock, horses, wildlife, shelter medicine, diagnostics, surveillance, and humane care.
Environment and ecosystems
Air, water, soil, land, wildlife habitat, pollution, vectors, climate, heat, smoke, and wildfire.
Food and agriculture
Food safety, biosecurity, livestock systems, plant health, producers, rural livelihoods, and resilient supply chains.
Preparedness and response
Early detection, reporting, emergency planning, coordinated communication, and response across agencies and professions.
Communities and local knowledge
Lived experience, local priorities, and respectful relationships with Tribal nations, pueblos, and communities across the state.
Collaborators
One NMVMA initiative. Four complementary roles.
The initiative is led by NMVMA and strengthened through collaboration with organizations that add public-health, live-learning, and flexible-learning expertise.
Initiative lead
NMVMA
Provides statewide veterinary leadership, identifies priorities with members and stakeholders, convenes the work, connects subject-matter experts, and communicates confirmed opportunities and resources.
Public-health collaborator
NMPHA
Contributes public-health practice, policy, systems, health-equity, and community perspectives through the New Mexico Public Health Association’s statewide network.
Live-learning collaborator
Project ECHO
Brings a virtual, case-based learning model built around shared expertise and the principle “All Teach, All Learn.”
Flexible-learning collaborator
NMSU Global
Contributes online-learning and microlearning expertise that can extend approved educational content beyond a live event.
One Health resource library
Start with the question you need to answer.
This library brings together NMVMA materials, national and global foundations, learning tools, and New Mexico reporting and response resources.
NMVMA initiative and learning
Follow the initiative, understand the learning strategy, and use related NMVMA resources.
NMVMA and Project ECHO
Read NMVMA’s announcement about building a virtual, case-based learning community for veterinary professionals.
Read the partnership announcementHelp build what comes next
Learn how subject-matter experts can contribute to NMVMA learning work with NMSU Global and Project ECHO.
Explore expert opportunitiesNMVMA Lifelong Learning
See how member needs, practical access, and professional growth connect across NMVMA’s learning strategy.
Explore Lifelong LearningPractice Census and Listening Tour
Review the member and practice findings that helped shape NMVMA’s learning priorities.
Open the full report (opens in a new tab)By the Numbers
Read NMVMA’s summary of what members shared and how those findings are informing future work.
Read the summaryNMVMA Animal Care Guide
Use plain-language animal-health guidance prepared for New Mexico families and communities.
Explore the Animal Care GuideNMVMA disaster preparedness
Find planning resources for veterinarians, pet owners, and livestock managers before an emergency.
Review disaster preparednessOne Health foundations
Use these hubs for definitions, current priorities, and the role of each field.
CDC One Health
Human, animal, and environmental health information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Explore CDC One Health (opens in a new tab)USDA APHIS One Health
Agricultural, animal, plant, wildlife, food-safety, and federal partnership perspectives.
Explore APHIS One Health (opens in a new tab)EPA One Health
The environmental side of One Health, including air, water, land, pollution, research, and community examples.
Explore EPA One Health (opens in a new tab)AVMA One Health
Veterinary-profession information, policy, and resources from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Explore AVMA One Health (opens in a new tab)WHO One Health Initiative
Global health coordination and the work of the FAO–UNEP–WHO–WOAH Quadripartite.
Explore WHO One Health (opens in a new tab)World Organisation for Animal Health
International animal-health standards, disease information, and One Health coordination.
Explore WOAH One Health (opens in a new tab)FAO One Health
Food systems, agriculture, animal and plant health, food safety, antimicrobial resistance, and livelihoods.
Explore FAO One Health (opens in a new tab)Learn, plan, and communicate
Use these tools for professional learning, practical planning, and clear public guidance.
CDC One Health Toolkits
Toolkits developed by CDC for One Health work, planning, and communication.
Open the toolkits (opens in a new tab)CDC ZOHU Calls
Monthly one-hour webinars on zoonoses and One Health topics, with free continuing education available.
View ZOHU Calls (opens in a new tab)Healthy Pets, Healthy People
CDC guidance for keeping people and animals safe and healthy in everyday settings.
Explore Healthy Pets, Healthy People (opens in a new tab)Animal-linked outbreak information
CDC information about outbreaks connected with animals and animal products in the United States.
Review outbreak information (opens in a new tab)EPA One Health Learning Lab
Learning materials that show how environmental conditions connect with human, animal, and plant health.
Visit the Learning Lab (opens in a new tab)Project ECHO model
Learn how virtual communities use cases, mentoring, and shared problem-solving to move knowledge across distance.
Explore the ECHO model (opens in a new tab)NMSU Global microlearning
See how short, focused online learning can support professional development and practical skill building.
Explore NMSU Global microlearning (opens in a new tab)New Mexico reporting, diagnostics, and response
Use the responsible organization’s current information for animal health, public health, diagnostics, wildlife, and urgent reporting pathways.
NMDOH Zoonotic Disease Program
State information and reporting resources for diseases that can move between animals and people.
Open NMDOH resources (opens in a new tab)NMDA Veterinary Diagnostic Services
Animal-disease diagnostic services, submission information, laboratory resources, and contacts.
Open Veterinary Diagnostic Services (opens in a new tab)New Mexico Livestock Board
Animal-health programs, quarantines, reportable-disease information, forms, and State Veterinarian contacts.
Open Animal Health resources (opens in a new tab)New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Information about wildlife diseases, aquatic invasive species, and related conservation work.
Explore wildlife disease information (opens in a new tab)New World Screwworm awareness
New Mexico-specific warning signs, prevention information, reporting guidance, and updates.
Visit Screwworm NM (opens in a new tab)Participate
Bring NMVMA a question, topic, or connection.
Members and mission-aligned stakeholders can help the initiative identify useful issues, subject-matter expertise, and relationships across New Mexico.
Suggest a topic or field question
Describe the issue, who is encountering it, and what better information or coordination could make possible.
Share subject-matter expertise
Offer experience in veterinary medicine, public health, agriculture, wildlife, environmental health, emergency response, education, or community work.
Connect a relevant organization
Introduce a public agency, laboratory, educational institution, professional association, or community organization whose mission aligns with the work.
Follow confirmed opportunities
Watch NMVMA communications for specific sessions, resources, participation details, and any approved continuing-education information.
Strengthen the initiative
Help connect the knowledge New Mexico needs.
Email nmvma@nmvma.org or call (505) 985-7124 with a general question, topic, expertise offer, or potential connection.
