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I think One Health is creating a lot of problems that it was initially claiming to solve, and I'd like to suggest the template of how this happens, because if this keeps going, we'll have (1) more disconnect between One Health and the real world and (2) less policy action.

3. One Health practitioners claim this problem as their own, and make two possibly counterproductive assumptions: - that this problem is now solvable only through a OH lens - that the OH intervention of this problem is the most/only effective one 4. People buy it (this is where it all breaks down)

5. As this problem is now officially a One Health problem, any group for which OH is not a core part of their mandate feels less inclined to work on it. This has become no one's responsibility. 6. OH groups complain about low policy will to act on this topic.

7. OH discussions re-coalesce around endless governance talk, and silos, and woe-is-us narratives. The problem goes unsolved, or concrete actions that are not explicitly advancing a OH agenda are discounted as not effective, not integrative. 9. Repeat.