One Health Security
Long-form structural analysis, governance briefings and research notes on the legal and institutional architecture of zoonotic risk governance — organised into three streams.
Expert analysis examining emerging risks, scientific developments and strategic issues shaping the future of One Health Security
Over the Rules of Outbreaks series we followed a pathogen through a complicated legal world. So what happens next? A…
AnalysisA country finds a virus with pandemic potential. The world wants the genome within hours — but what does that…
AnalysisScientists find a new virus in a wild animal. The world wants it within days — but it is also…
AnalysisAn unknown virus jumps from animals to people, crosses a border and appears in genomic databases within days. But no…
AnalysisAn unfamiliar virus is found in animals, jumps to a farm worker, is sequenced and uploaded, and within days crosses…
AnalysisAn outbreak becomes internationally significant long before anyone says "pandemic". The law that governs the moment it crosses a border…
AnalysisAfter COVID, governments decided a PHEIC was not enough. The 2024 IHR amendments created a new highest alert — the…
AnalysisIn May 2025 governments adopted the world's first pandemic treaty. It does not create a world health government or let…
AnalysisA laboratory in Manchester spots a cluster that may not be confined to Britain. Scientifically the link appears fast; legally,…
AnalysisWastewater is a population-scale biological sample that can reveal infection — from polio to antimicrobial resistance — before anyone reaches…
AnalysisBTV-3 is spreading through British livestock again, bringing vaccination, movement controls and thousands of disease reports with it — and…
AnalysisIf your herd is culled to control disease, you are paid for the animals — but not for the business…