Ecosystem Health and Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention - in support of One Health policy and research

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are increasingly shaped by environmental and systemic drivers. Belgian One Health (BeOH) is organising a two-day event focusing on the role of the environment and ecosystems, including biodiversity, in the emergence of NCD and NCD prevention in public and animal health. The event moreover aims to move from knowledge to actionable leverage points. The overarching topics will be the impacts on NCD of the exposome, food systems and nutrition, urban health, and nature-based solutions, highlighting opportunities for ecosystem health co-benefits in both mitigation and adaptation measures.