Last updated: 20/04/2022

Factsheet on Biodiversity and Health
This is a useful WHO resource on biodiversity and health

Biodiversity and Health: the WHO-CBD Joint Work Programme
Resources relating to the Joint Work Programme on Biodiversity and Health established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Policy relevance of nature, biodiversity and health to WHO’s global and regional agenda
This page by the WHO's regional office for Europe lists a non-exclusive set of key policies, international commitments and institutional agendas relevant for health, nature and biodiversity.

Environment and health
This page by the WHO's regional office for Europe covers news and event relating to the first ever first ever environment and health process (initiated by WHO/Europe) and provides links to numerous topics relating to environment and health.

One Health Commission
This page is a very useful resource on the One Health approach.

Planetary Health Alliance
This page is a very useful resource on the Planetary Health approach.

Network for Ecohealth and One Health
This page by the European chapter of Ecohealth International covers the activities of the Network for Ecohealth and One Health (NEOH).

5 reasons why biodiversity matters – to human health, the economy and your wellbeing
This WEF page focuses on the critical importance of biodiversity for human health, economies and livelihoods.

Biodiversity interlinkages tool
This interactive tool developed by the WEF and curated by the Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Amazonia offers a visual way of understanding how human activity and health depend on biodiversity.

The EU's 6th Environmental Action Plan
This web page provides a wide range of information on 6EAP.

Farm to Fork Strategy
This web page contains useful resources relating to the EU Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F).

Tracking the connections between public health and climate change
This page is by the Lancet Countdown, an initiative launched in 2016 by the acclaimed medical journal Lancet in response to the 2015 Lancet Commission’s conclusion that ‘tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.'

Resources on understanding the relationship between COVID-19, nature and human health by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform
This page includes information on the activities of the platform relevant to the current COVID -19 pandemic and its relationship with biodiversity, science-policy and human health.

Debate corner: COVID-19, the environment and climate
This EEA page links to a series of virtual high-level debates focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 and the challenges the pandemic poses to meeting long-term climate and environment goals. The debates were organised by the EEA and the EPA Network.

Preventing ZOonotic Disease Emergence
PREZODE is an innovative international initiative with the ambition to understand the risks of emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases, to develop and implement innovative methods to improve prevention, early detection, and resilience in order to ensure rapid response to the risks of emerging infectious diseases of animal origin.