One Health: Tools to Integrate Human, Environmental, and Wildlife Wellbeing

09/10/2025
16:30 - 18:30
Conference Hall B: Session Room 8 , Onsite
Session with interpretation

Why attend

This session will provide participants with an understanding of how to access and apply practical approaches, developed by IUCN alongside its partners, for strengthening environmental and wildlife health integration into One Health approaches.

Session Description

This session will provide an overview of what One Health (OH) is and the global cross-sector policy frameworks that set out mandates to apply it. It will then outline the importance and opportunities for incorporating environmental and wildlife health into OH approaches and frameworks. Finally, the session will set out the various tools developed by IUCN, alongside partner organisations that provide practical guidance to support national authorities, civil society and IPLCs in strengthening environmental and wildlife health into OH, including toward risk analysis, wildlife health monitoring, protected area planning and management, and nature-based solutions for health.
Organised by
Headquarters logo
Headquarters
Partners
Species Survival Commission logo
Species Survival Commission
Commission on Ecosystem Management logo
Commission on Ecosystem Management
Wildlife Conservation Society ( United States of America ) logo
Wildlife Conservation Society ( United States of America )

Host

Speaker Kevin SMITH

Head of Programme, Invasive Species and Wildlife Health

Speaker Kevin SMITH

Head of Programme, Invasive Species and Wildlife Health

Speaker Dao NGUYEN

Senior Programme Manager, Conservation Action, IUCN Secretariat

Moderator

Speaker Paula PRIST

Senior Programme Coordinator

Speaker Brent MITCHELL

Senior Vice President (Also Vice Chair, IUCN WCPA)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Speaker Paula PRIST

Senior Programme Coordinator

Speaker

Speaker Melanie HEATH

SENIOR DIRECTOR – GLOBAL PROGRAMME OFFICE at TRAFFIC

Speaker Sarah OLSON

IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025

Speaker Pragyan Raj POKHREL

Senior Programme Officer

Speaker Claire CAYOL

Project Officer, World Organisation for Animal Helath