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Tackling shared threats for a safer world: WOAH's Global Conference on Emergency Management

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With complex emergencies threatening global health security, WOAH hosts a first-of-its-kind conference to foster cross-links and dialogue between sectors.

Faced by an ever-changing hazard landscape, experts and stakeholders from a variety of sectors will gather at the Global Conference on Emergency Management taking place on 3-5 April in Paris.

Risks associated with emergencies have been increasingly catching the world off guard over the past decades. From infectious disease outbreaks to extreme events induced by climate change or natural disasters, these threats can have cascading effects on society as a whole, including animal and public health. The frequency and complexity are only bound to increase, which poses unprecedented challenges to our interconnected ecosystems and threatens global health security.

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