- About Us
- Research Projects
- Access to Primary Care for Older Adults
- Infectious Math
- Understanding Pandemic Related Moral Distress
- Equity-Based Pandemic Preparedness
- Optimizing Virtual Health
- Pandemics and Borders
- Social Media Use for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
- Women and Precarious Work
- Work conditions of Black workers in healthcare
- News and Events
- Resources
- Contact Us
March 07, 2024
Why ‘One Health’ needs more social sciences: Pandemic prevention depends on behaviour as well as biology
Published in The Conversation: ""
On March 11, 2024, . And while COVID-19 continues to impact people globally, it is only the most recent in a long history of pandemics with likely origins in animals. Examples include , which usually spreads from rodents to humans via infected fleas, and the 2009 , also known as swine flu due to its .
Given the animal origins of past pandemics, as well as the many recent cases of disease in people linked to animals 鈥� such as , and 鈥� it is very likely that the next pandemic will again originate in animals.
Read more: