One Health
Health challenges rarely belong to a single discipline. 1HealthAI connects clinical, veterinary and environmental knowledge on shared infrastructure, so teams can work across the boundaries that normally slow innovation down.
Responsible AI, supercomputing and trusted data shorten the path from scientific evidence to services with measurable value.
A milestone for Galicia and Spain
Galicia takes a historic step: the European Commission has awarded Spain a second AI Factory, 1HealthAI, hosted at CESGA. Europe now has 19 AI Factories selected, and 1HealthAI is one of them. It is the only AI Factory with a vertical specialisation, focused on the One Health sector. The factory puts sovereign supercomputing at the service of human, animal and environmental health.
Overview
One Health is the recognition that the health of people, animals and ecosystems is a single interdependent system. Antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic disease, food safety and the health effects of environmental change cannot be understood — let alone managed — from inside one discipline.
In practice the paradigm is easier to endorse than to apply. The data sits in different institutions, under different rules, in different formats. The expertise sits in different faculties. The computing capacity needed to analyse it together is rarely available to the teams who need it most.
1HealthAI is built to remove those obstacles. It provides the computing, the governed data environments and the regulatory support that let clinical, veterinary and environmental researchers work on the same question at the same time.
The result is not only better science. It is evidence that arrives early enough, and in a form transparent enough, to inform decisions taken by health services, regulators and public authorities.
The 3 Health Pillars
Three domains, one infrastructure. Each pillar has its own communities, datasets and regulatory context — and each becomes more useful when connected to the other two.
Research and innovation that improve prevention, diagnosis and personalised treatment, using protected clinical data under European rules.
Veterinary surveillance, animal welfare and early detection of zoonotic risk, supported by shared data and predictive models.
Ecosystem, biodiversity and environmental monitoring that reveal the conditions behind emerging health risks.
Which AI tools, models and datasets reach the platform first is decided with the people who will use them. Tell us what your work needs.
Funding and institutional support
1HealthAI — European One-Health AI Factory, grant agreement No 101314617 — is co-funded by the European Union through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking as part of the AI Factories initiative, with national and regional support from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, and the Xunta de Galicia, through European ERDF funds.
