🌍 The greatest legacy of #WOHC2026 may be what the world does and what changes after Lisbon. 🦠 The next era of pandemic management must move from: React → Detect → Contain TO Predict → Prevent → Protect. 🧬 Science is pointing toward a new One Health paradigm: ✅ Prevent zoonotic spillovers before they become outbreaks ✅ Integrate surveillance across people, animals & ecosystems ✅ Harness genomics, AI and early-warning systems ✅ Confront antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ✅ Protect biodiversity and the environmental foundations of health ✅ Build stronger, resilient health systems 🤔 But evidence alone will not prevent the next pandemic. 🌱 The pathway must be explicit: 🧬 Science → Policy → Funding → Implementation → Measurable Prevention 🌍 Governments and institutions must now turn the knowledge shared in Lisbon into: ✅ National One Health strategies ✅ Sustained investment ✅ Integrated surveillance ✅ Rapid data sharing ✅ Prevention-focused action ✅ Vaccine preparedness and equitable access to vaccination ⚠️ Don’t wait for the next pandemic to prove that we should have acted earlier. 👣 Let Lisbon be the moment the world chooses prevention over reaction. 🤝 One Health: idea → implementation → prevention. #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #ClimateHealth @WOHCongress @PeterDaszak

Here at the World One Health Congress #WOHC2026 @WOHCongress — plenary presentations by @PeterDaszak Dr Dan Bausch @lmadoff Dr Ian Lipkin Dr Musmar Some takeaways for me: we are still quite weak on surveillance of spillover from wildlife to humans. Our global system is heavily reactive with more support in disease detection after spillovers into humans & far less upstream where high-risk contact between animals & humans continue. The incentives to report or reduce risky activities are still weak because they often contradict economic needs in rural or agrarian areas. I have found this to be true in our research on Marburg virus in East Africa, as well as in Bird Flu/#H5N1 in Central California.

#WOHC2026 @PeterDaszak “Converting a forest in Malaysia releases diseases like lepto & malaria - completely removes profit from palm oil plantation”. He presents #OneHealth Strategy for #PandemicPrevention: smart surveillance, broad acting vaccines, policies, action & awareness.