National One Health Mission
One Health is an integrating idea that brings different sectors together to solve the health, productivity, and conservation challenges and has major implications for India. India with its diverse wildlife, one of the largest livestock populations and high density of human population, and diversity of flora, creates opportunities for harmonious coexistence or conflicts such as heightened risks for inter-compartmental spread of diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic, recent outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease in cattle, and the constant threat of Avian Influenza show that it is not just about addressing diseases from human health point of view (zoonosis) but there is also a need to address the livestock, wildlife and environmental aspects, including plants. This also opens opportunity for leveraging the complementarities and strengths that is inherent in each sector and devises integrated, robust and agile response systems. The complexity and interconnectedness of the challenges threatening humans, animals, and environment including plants, where they coexist, therefore requires a holistic and integrated ‘One Health’ based approach to achieve the goal of ‘Health and Wellness for All’.
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‘To build an integrated disease control and pandemic preparedness system in India by bringing human, animal and environmental sectors together for better health outcomes, improved productivity and conservation of biodiversity.’
The key goals of the One Health Mission will be towards enabling and achieving the stated vision, making the mission responsive to the needs of the human-animal-environment interface, establishing a broad based inclusive collaboration for achieving the nation’s health goals, and reducing the existing disease burden. To achieve these goals, the One Health Mission also aspires to implement the following strategies, which are ongoing and will be strengthened under the mission along with several other new activities:
