Prevent pandemics through One Health commitments

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Risks of outbreaks with pandemic potential rise with increasing land-use change, biodiversity loss and climate change. The Pandemic Agreement adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2025 marks a historic shift that establishes the One Health approach as a legally binding obligation for pandemic prevention. But it needs a suitable plan for implementation. Access options Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription $32.99 / 30 days cancel any time Learn more Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from $1.95 to $39.95 Learn more Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Nature 651 , 550 (2026) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00778-4 Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests. Related Articles Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health Learn COVID pandemic lessons — before it’s too late COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know Subjects Public health Sustainability Society Latest on: Public health Sustainability Society Going ‘beyond GDP’ should not mean sidelining the SDGs Editorial 03 MAR 26 Health effects linger 20 generations after rats are exposed to fungicide News 26 FEB 26 Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as US aid cuts bite Career Feature 19 FEB 26 Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies — but disaster is not inevitable World View 04 MAR 26 Going ‘beyond GDP’ should not mean sidelining the SDGs Editorial 03 MAR 26 Account for AI in the environmental footprint of scientific publishing Correspondence 24 FEB 26 Artificial general intelligence must be assessed in its scientific and societal context Correspondence 10 MAR 26 Privilege, power and vulnerability in science: precarious funding can prompt unethical ties Correspondence 10 MAR 26 The missing pieces of menopause science Outlook 06 MAR 26 Jobs Research group leader, Systems Immunology (m/f/d) The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut is one of the world’s leading research institutes in the field of animal diseases, animal welfare, animal husbandry... Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE) Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit Postdoctoral Fellow UMass Chan Medical School (FBGao Lab) Post Doc Position to study pathogenic mechanisms of Frontotemporal Dementia using patient iPSC-derived neurons Worcester, Massachusetts (US) Umass Chan Medical School - Fen-Biao Gao Lab Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Warmly Welcomes Talents Abroad Qiushi Chair Professor; Qiushi Distinguished Scholar; ZJU 100 Young Researcher; Distinguished researcher No. 3, Qingchun East Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang (CN) Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital Affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine Talent Recruitment Announcement of the College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University Join Huazhong Agricultural University No.1 Shizishan Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) Seeking Global Talents at All Levels - SIAT We find Distinguished PIs, Senior PIs, Junior PIs, Senior Engineer, Junior Engineer, Post-doctoral fellow, Assistant research fellow. 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055 P. R. China Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences（CAS)