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WHO Assumes One Health Lead as Lyon Summit Sets Concrete Actions

The changes concentrate power and programs to speed country action on zoonotic risk.

Overview

  • France’s One Health Summit produced a package of measures with WHO now chairing the Quadripartite to drive coordinated global work across human, animal and environmental health.
  • Partners plan a Global Network of One Health Institutions to turn guidance into hands-on country support with training and peer learning through the WHO Academy.
  • The One Health High‑Level Expert Panel received an extended mandate through 2027 with a planned 2027–2029 phase to shape research priorities and back the joint action plan.
  • WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Institut Pasteur relaunched a drive to end dog‑mediated human rabies deaths by 2030, a disease that still kills about 60,000 people each year.
  • Quadripartite agencies unveiled a unified avian influenza framework to align surveillance, risk assessment and response, as officials warned that chronic funding shortfalls could slow delivery of these plans.