Context

Socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors have repeatedly been shown to drive emerging infectious disease risk. However, these factors remain largely excluded from surveillance, warning and response systems. Similarly, even though hazards’ impacts are vastly interconnected (e.g. climate change, flooding, droughts, tropical cyclones, heatwaves, water-borne and vector-borne diseases), warning systems tend to act and work in silos. The disconnect among sectors, disaster risk reduction and health preparedness leads to reactive systems that wait for a disaster to occur before issuing a response.

This question invites researchers to:

• – explore the relationships between hazards (human-made, biological, natural, etc.)

• – consider how we can better account for and address drivers of disease risk

• – propose suggestions for how we can build multi-hazard, multi-sector warning and response systems that work across the various elements of disaster risk reduction, including prevention

This research is particularly relevant both for the negotiations of a new pandemic agreement, including a One Health component, and the United Nations 2022 Early Warnings for All initiative that aims to ensure that every person on Earth is protected by an early warning system in the next five years.

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