Professor Natalia Cediel

Professor Natalia Cediel is a Veterinarian, with a MSc in Public Health (Colombian National University), a PhD Veterinary Sciences (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy), and seventeen years of experience working in multi-disciplinary health teams and intercultural workplaces. Currently, she is Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad de La Salle, Colombia in four main thematic areas: 1) understanding and sharing best practices for One Health implementation, 2) mainstreaming gender equity in health policies, programs and projects and food chains and 3) integrating the study of social determinants of health (SDH) and equity into the one health approach in rural settings and 4) developing prioritization methodologies for public health decision making. 

Since 2008, Natalia has been advocating and designing educational material to teach the One Health approach in veterinary programs in Latin America with the international SAPUVETNET Project signed between Europe and Latin America. She designs qualitative studies on knowledge, attitudes and practices on zoonoses prevention and prioritization. She has developed technical documents regarding the integrated approach to zoonoses with the Colombian Ministry of Health (2016), mapping the One Health initiatives in Latin America (2022), mapping the legislative frameworks and governance structures to implement the One Health approach in Colombia (2023) together with CIRAD and The Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health (PANAFTOSA/VPH) Unit.  In 2023 she was the Scientific Coordinator of the Conference of The Rabies in The Americas (RITA Colombia) providing scientific evidence regarding the need to start the National Strategic One Health Plan of Action for Zoonoses. Currently she is Advisor and Mentor for the Colombian National Health Institute for the Frontline course of the field epidemiology training program (FETP) on One health.

She served as member of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) for the Quadripartite WHO/WOAH/FAO/UNEP (2021-2023), is a member of the One Sustainable Health Forum since 2022 and member of the NEOH gender working group since 2020. 

Currently, she is co-editor of the CABI One Health journal on the special topic on One Health, Gender and Feminism, member of the scientific committee of the 8th World One Health Congress (Cape Town) and coordinator of the One health and Biodiversity community of practice (FAO One Health knowledge nexus) and the LinkedIn “Comunidad de Aprendizaje y práctica de Una Salud”.