Title
Ground zero for pandemic prevention: reinforcing environmental sector integration
Author(s)
Sarah Helen Olson; Amanda E Fine; Mathieu Pruvot; Lucy O Keatts; Chris Walzer
Published
2023
Publisher
BMJ Global Health
Abstract
The global public health sector acknowledges an intact functioning environment as foundational to human health in principle but not in practice.To effectively prevent pandemics and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, it is essential to fully and equitably integrate the environmental sector into global public health and embrace prevention at the source.The implementation of the WildHealthNet approach in countries such as Cambodia, Viet Nam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has led to the early detection of threats to human and livestock health, manifesting the importance of such wildlife health surveillance systems.True environmental integration necessitates the creation of innovative institutional partnerships, cross-sectoral policy structures, sustainable funding models and an inclusive conversation involving local communities, Indigenous Leaders, and Traditional Knowledge.
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