One Health: Investing in the Future of Humanity

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00:06 One Health,

00:07 of course,

00:07 is the approach under which environmental health,

00:11 animal health,

00:12 and human health work together to improve the preparedness,

00:16 response,

00:17 and work towards prevention of pandemics.

00:20 The role of the World Bank is

00:21 to basically foster the collaboration between those various sectors.

00:25 I would say that the World Bank

00:27 is one of the few organizations in the world that has the human health.

00:30 Animal health and environmental health expertise in-house.

00:34 Not too many institutions in the world actually that have

00:37 all three disciplines in-house.

00:39 Also,

00:40 the bank has a very important role to play to

00:42 make sure that there is sufficient financing for One Health.

00:45 It's not easy actually to make sure that financing,

00:48 particularly for preventive measures,

00:50 is available.

00:51 There's always this cycle of panic and neglect that we've seen in the past,

00:54 so I think.

00:55 The Bank has an important role to play to work with our clients

00:57 and with our shareholders to make sure that those resources are available.

01:01 And of course the pandemic fund that was

01:03 recently established will be a very good instrument

01:06 to provide long term financing to this agenda.

01:08 The estimates that we have show that the returns

01:12 to investment in one health focus

01:14 on prevention rates of returns of more than 80% or so.

01:18 So it's highly.

01:19 Effective

01:21 and efficient actually to invest in pandemic

01:24 prevention and preparedness.

01:27 Well,

01:27 there's a lot of attention to One Health now after COVID-19.

01:31 Of course,

01:31 One Health has been around for quite some time.

01:34 And even before One Health was recognized as an approach,

01:38 I think the bank was already

01:40 active in it.

01:40 The example is the

01:42 river blindness control program that the bank did

01:45 in the 70s with the World Health Organization

01:47 to eradicate river blindness.

01:49 That's a one health approach.

01:50 It wasn't called One Health

01:51 at the time.

01:52 After avian influenza 2006,

01:55 2007,

01:55 we saw the bank stepping up and supporting one health type projects.

01:59 Right now we have about 45 projects that are focusing on one health,

02:03 where they committed an amount of about $1.5 billion.

02:07 We're not starting from scratch here.

02:09 I think we're moving in the right direction.

02:11 There's also a commitment for the bank to mainstream one

02:15 health in 20 countries over the next three years,

02:17 so we have quite a number of elements,

02:20 and it will help to mainstream and scale up investments in one health.

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One Health, of course, is the approach under which environmental health, animal health, and human health work together to improve the preparedness, response, and work towards prevention of pandemics. The role of the World Bank is to basically foster the collaboration between those various sectors. I would say that the World Bank is one of the few organizations in the world that has the human health. Animal health and environmental health expertise in-house. Not too many institutions in the world actually that have all three disciplines in-house. Also, the bank has a very important role to play to make sure that there is sufficient financing for One Health. It's not easy actually to make sure that financing, particularly for preventive measures, is available. There's always this cycle of panic and neglect that we've seen in the past, so I think. The Bank has an important role to play to work with our clients and with our shareholders to make sure that those resources are available. And of course the pandemic fund that was recently established will be a very good instrument to provide long term financing to this agenda. The estimates that we have show that the returns to investment in one health focus on prevention rates of returns of more than 80% or so. So it's highly. Effective and efficient actually to invest in pandemic prevention and preparedness. Well, there's a lot of attention to One Health now after COVID-19. Of course, One Health has been around for quite some time. And even before One Health was recognized as an approach, I think the bank was already active in it. The example is the river blindness control program that the bank did in the 70s with the World Health Organization to eradicate river blindness. That's a one health approach. It wasn't called One Health at the time. After avian influenza 2006, 2007, we saw the bank stepping up and supporting one health type projects. Right now we have about 45 projects that are focusing on one health, where they committed an amount of about $1.5 billion. We're not starting from scratch here. I think we're moving in the right direction. There's also a commitment for the bank to mainstream one health in 20 countries over the next three years, so we have quite a number of elements, and it will help to mainstream and scale up investments in one health.

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