09/10/2025
14:00 - 15:30
CR A-B: Forum - Session Room 4
, Hybrid (onsite with livestreaming)
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Join us in this interactive session where we will learn about efforts to operationalize the One Health approach on the ground, nationally, and internationally; develop recommendations for an IUCN One Health strategy; and generate ideas on ways we can all elevate the profile of One Health in our conservation work.
Session Description
This session complements a draft motion requesting IUCN to develop a One Health strategy and encouraging all IUCN members to recognize and elevate the profile of the One Health approach in their conservation work and to support its operationalization.One Health initially focused on zoonotic diseases but has evolved to include primary prevention, pollution, and non-communicable diseases where the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.
With the inclusion of One Health in IUCN’s 20-year vision and 4-year programme, we can inform IUCN’s One Health strategy. Further, a global gathering of individuals dedicated to the conservation of nature serves as a prime backdrop for a conversation on opportunities and challenges and the steps we can take both individually and collectively to ensure that the environment is featured prominently in the One Health agenda.