Our purpose

In May 2025, 194 governments committed to promote One Health approaches as part of their efforts to prevent and prepare for future pandemics. However, the World Health Organization highlights critical barriers to implementation.

We are here to help overcome these barriers and implement projects that prevent diseases, improve livelihoods and protect nature simultaneously.

Preventing diseases

Our aims are to prevent pandemics by stopping deadly zoonotic diseases (those that pass from animals to people) from reaching human populations, and to reduce the number of people who catch some of the most dangerous diseases that humanity faces today.

  • Many human diseases including malaria, dengue and Japanese Encephalitis are “vector-borne”, which means they pass through different species as part of their lifecycles. And roughly three quarters of all human infectious diseases began when animal diseases passed to people. Recent examples include HIV, Ebola and Covid-19. Emerging threats with pandemic potential could be even more dangerous. For example, the Indian state of Kerala has experienced nine outbreaks of the bat-borne Nipah virus since 2018. An estimated 89% of infected people died.

    By considering how diseases pass between species and how that’s influenced by species’ environments, we can block transmission of vector-borne diseases between people and prevent outbreaks of new diseases by stopping animal diseases from ever reaching human populations.

Improving livelihoods

Implementing our projects creates economic opportunities for the people most vulnerable to disease outbreaks, including small-holder farmers and tribal communities.

  • Zoonotic diseases cost economies billions each year. Farmers lose livelihoods, healthcare costs rise, and trade and other economic activities are disrupted. This often falls hardest on the most vulnerable, increasing the burden of poverty.

    In addition to helping prevent the economic devastation of disease outbreaks, our projects are designed to create economic opportunities locally. These include working with small-holder farmers to develop new income streams and creating employment in disease monitoring and nature conservation for rural and tribal community members.

Protecting nature

Alongside protecting endangered wild animals from human and domestic animal diseases, we aim to help conserve and restore threatened ecosystems – contributing to global goals for climate and nature, and creating natural barriers to disease transmission.

  • Diseases that pass from people or domestic animals to wildlife can be a major threat to the survival of species. The global amphibian pandemic, Chytridiomycosis, is one of the most extreme examples – having contributed to the decline of over 500 species and the extinction of at least 90. And once a disease has spread to wild animals, the disease can persist despite public health or veterinary efforts because wildlife can reinfect people or livestock at any time.

    Maintaining and restoring natural barriers (like healthy forest ecosystems) is one of the best ways to protect wildlife from human or domestic animal diseases and vice versa. Therefore, our projects aim to conserve and restore threatened ecosystems alongside protecting endangered species from disease.