Our Work
COVID-19 has devastated our global community. The worst part? It’s likely to happen again – soon. While the world is rightly focused on developing and distributing vaccines, managing the economic fallout of COVID-19, and bolstering health systems to manage rising cases, the rate of zoonotic disease outbreaks has been increasing steadily as we continue to encroach upon the natural world. It is only a matter of time before we experience another COVID-19.
But we can stop this from happening – if we understand the root causes of most emerging infectious diseases and invest in preventing pandemics at the source.
Our work aims to save lives by preventing the spillover of zoonotic viruses from animals to humans - well before they can become global pandemics, regional / national epidemics, or even localized outbreaks.
550
mil+
people have been infected by
14
mil+
global excess deaths associated with COVID-19
50
mil
additional people are likely to live in extreme poverty in 2030 due to COVID-19
Latest updates
Ahead of COP15, coalition releases advisory note on the draft biodiversity framework
On December 1st, 2022, ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), our coalition released this advisory note, calling on Parties to the CBD to explicitly include reducing the risk of pathogen spillover in target 5 of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
But prevention can only happen when we join forces
In the wake of COVID-19, a group of leading health and environment actors have joined forces to prevent pandemics at the point of spillover.
These organizations are:
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