The approach ensures collaboration and coordination among all relevant sectors and stakeholders to achieve inclusive and holistic health outcomes. The implementation of this approach has become even more urgent and critical with the emergence of COVID-19 and the re-emergence of zoonotic and vector-borne disease threats. 

 For the current biennium, TDR is building on the outputs of an earlier research initiative (started in 2013) on vector-borne diseases and climate change as the basis for operationalizing One Health.

Environment, climate change and health

Environment, climate change and health

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Overview

The TDR/IDRC Research Initiative on VBDs and Climate (Population health vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases: Increasing resilience under climate change conditions in Africa; Ramirez B et al., 2017), was focused on the particular health threat posed by VBDs in the broader development context of human vulnerability to climate change.