April, leaders from academia, government and international organizations gathered in Lyon, France, alongside the One Health Festival to strengthen global collaboration on One Health learning and capacity-building. The meeting produced clear calls to action: to move beyond awareness-raising to practical, scalable implementation, and to prioritize investment in people and cross-sector partnerships over the creation of new frameworks.

Participants acknowledged strong global momentum and a wealth of existing One Health initiatives. The central challenge identified, however, was turning One Health concepts into coordinated, measurable and operational action. The meeting called for the One Health approach to be embedded into systems and structures at scale, rather than built up through awareness-raising in isolation.