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One Health Summit Drives a New Wave of Coordinated Action for Global Health Threats

WHO and France announced a global network, expanded expert panel and rabies initiative to improve surveillance and country-level response.

  • On World Health Day, global leaders gathered in France for the One Health Summit, where the World Health Organization and partners announced concrete actions to protect people, animals, and the planet from future health crises.
  • President Emmanuel Macron stated that the One Health approach recognizes human, animal, and environmental well-being are inseparable, as France aims to move the initiative from ambition to practical implementation.
  • Nearly 60,000 people die annually from rabies, prompting WHO and partners to launch a global elimination initiative by 2030, alongside a new Strategic Framework for Collaboration addressing avian influenza threats.
  • Alongside the Summit, the Global Forum of WHO Collaborating Centres convened representatives from over 80 countries to deepen collaboration among leading research institutions and accelerate scientific innovation.
  • WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted, "The One Health approach brings together expertise to work across silos and sectors to prevent and respond to threats more effectively.
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The President of the Republic called for international cooperation in the field of health and recalled his support for international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization, at the One Health Summit in Lyon.

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Since Lyon, at the One Health Summit, the French President has called for a strengthening of global cooperation in the face of interconnected health risks French President Emmanuel Macron has

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The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron is expected at the One Health Summit in Lyon this Tuesday, where several ministers and heads of state also made the trip. The summit addresses themes bringing together health and environment around a common approach.

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Diseases of animal origin, pollution, resistance to antibiotics: these topics common to human, animal, plant and environmental health feed the exchanges at an international summit...

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