| Summary: | Investing in One Health – cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the
human health, animal health, and environmental health sectors – is crucial for maintaining healthy
agricultural and food systems and addressing global health security risks. Such action can reduce the threat
of future pandemics through upstream preventive actions, early detection, and agile responses to zoonotic
and emerging infectious diseases outbreaks, coupled with measures for promoting food safety, including
anti-microbial resistance. This regional review, conducted jointly by the World Bank and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, assesses the socioeconomic impacts of zoonotic diseases
and epidemics across the East Asia and Pacific region, providing a background on why emerging infectious
diseases are occurring more frequently in this region. This review looks at the benefits of using a risk-based
approach, assesses the management of animal and wildlife health and the ability to identify and respond
to emerging threats and protect the health, agricultural production, and ecosystem services. It provides
recommendations on priority activities to be undertaken, and offers governments and their development
partners the evidence and analysis needed to make more and better investments in wildlife systems and
animal health to improve global health security.
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