Ethnographic study describes Singapore's One Health governance via 'semi-informal' inter-agency socialisation
PLOS Global Public Health · Matthew Aviso, Youming Ng, James Chan, Panqin Cai, Kelvin Lim, Natasha Howard · Published on Readzer
Summary
A nine-month ethnographic study (2024–2025) of Singapore's One Health approach, including the 2025 establishment of the Communicable Diseases Agency and its One Health Office, found that multisectoral governance was supported by participant-driven socialisation through 'semi-informal' inter-agency relations among public servants. The study involved observations of three inter-agency meetings, eight partner agency engagements, interviews with 26 public servants across five agencies, and review of eight internal documents. Authors report that socialisation processes appeared structurally supported rather than incidental, challenging assumptions about formal structures and informal networks.
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