Six years on from COVID-19, have we built the One Health partnerships and preparedness systems we said we would?
Date: Thursday, 25th June 2026
Time: 9:00 – 10:30
Session overview
Context:
DPH2026 takes place six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Far enough to assess what has genuinely changed, and close enough that the urgency of “next time” remains real.
Lack of data for public health, their interpretability and access needs to be thought about and well planned when designing healthcare systems and data collection processes, to ensure equity, representativeness and quality are embedded. The systems must include data on hard to reach populations as as well as from those who out out form public healthcare for private options.
This session takes stock of where global and European public health preparedness actually stands six years after COVID-19. The focus is on One Health as a practical operational framework, as a set of working partnerships between human, veterinary, and environmental health systems. On two specific preparedness challenges where progress has been uneven: AMR and the integration of emergency response frameworks. The launch of the new ERIMS framework version provides a timely news peg.
Speakers
Head of UCL dPHE & Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Public Health and Pandemic Preparedness
Infectious Disease & Medical Microbiology clinician, UK Health Security Agency
IMIP, FPS & University of Pernambuco
Sub-Director for Surveillance and Emergency Response of Public Health, Public Health Agency of Catalonia