‘One Health’ Approach - By Sharmila Senthil Kumar

‘One Health’ is a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and trans-disciplinary approach working at the local, regional, national, and global levels with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.

The COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the need to be better prepared for future pandemics to reduce the risk to global health security. Preventing a future pandemic or ensuring a more effective response depends on systems for early warning and identification of changing risk factors, including systems integrating information from multiple sectors. In this context, One Health Approach assumes great ....