HIH team in The Lancet: primary pandemic prevention
In a recent co-authored correspondence in The Lancet, leading scientists and conservationists – including Health and Harmony Chief Health & Innovation Officer Sakib Burza and HIH board member Neil Vora, M.D.– come together to address the importance of primary pandemic prevention.
As the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition leadership advocate, primary prevention means taking actions to reduce the risk of an outbreak occurring in the first place, rather than acting after the fact.
Primary Prevention could include financing workforce and preventive action capacity for domestic animal and wildlife health, community engagement, environmental protection, and enhanced research and innovation on primary prevention to target the core drivers of these emergencies.