Interview with Priya Basu, Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund
28/01/2025
The Fund helps operationalize the “One Health” approach, from a theoretical concept to practical action at the country or regional level.” The first projects financed by the Pandemic Fund are successfully uniting agencies and ministries across sectors as well as…
Nature-based solutions are essential for climate and health action
09/09/2024
The health sector has the opportunity to embrace nature-based solutions—actions that protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use, and manage natural or modified ecosystems to deliver societal benefits, which are often not explicitly highlighted as priorities in intergovernmental decisions on climate and…
Building a win-win partnership with communities to tackle One Health issues
07/05/2024
Communities play a pivotal role in initiatives aimed at mitigating health risks, preventing pandemics, and adapting to climate change within the One Health framework. One key principle embraced by PREZODE is community engagement in pandemic prevention and response. Community surveillance is central…
Finding Winged Travelers and Ourselves in Troubled Waters
14/10/2023
Avian influenza spreads via migratory bird flyways, impacting wildlife globally. Water, viruses, and species are intertwined. World Migratory Bird Day in 2023 recalls the urge for prevention. Analysis. By Dr. Sarah Olson, Director of Health Research at WCS (Wildlife Conservation…
World Rabies Day 2023
28/09/2023
All for 1, one for all More than 59,000 people die from rabies every year, 99% of which are a result of exposure to an infected domestic dog. Rabies remains endemic in more than 150 countries. Over 95% of the 59,000…
World Health Day 2023
07/04/2023
2 minutes with Dr Neil Vora Dr Neil Vora, from Conservation International, member of the Initiative’s Community, explains the high importance, for Human health, to consider zoonosis prevention. >World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April,…