What’s Needed to Do a Better Job of Pre-Empting Disease Outbreaks

Looking at disease outbreaks more broadly, with more stakeholders, can improve response efforts

Rift Valley Fever is a disease passed from mosquitoes to animals then to people. It is one of the WHO's eight priority diseases. Shutterstock

The concept of One Health is deceptively simple: it’s the recognition that human, animal, and environmental health are all inherently linked.

Put into practice, it means approaching global health issues such as disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance with the combined force of doctors, veterinarians, environmental scientists, and civil society to tackle them more effectively across multiple fronts.