“One Health” Is The New Global Policy Framework

AIHOLE, KARNATAKA, INDIA - 2013/12/04: A farmer is ploughing a field, using white oxen for pulling the plough. (Photo by Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images

When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, the shock exposed not only a viral threat but the fragility of systems — from supply chains and food security to governance and global finance.

For Andrea Winkler and John Amuasi, co-chairs of the newly launched One Health Commission sponsored by The Lancet , one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, it was a turning point. As Amuasi explained, the pandemic “shifted our trajectory and understanding around One Health,” forcing the Commission to expand its consideration beyond pathogens shared by animals and people, so-called zoonotic diseases