Coordinated approach needed to tackle future zoonotic diseases: Epidemiologist Dr Giridhara Babu

Published: 28th March 2022 04:32 PM  |   Last Updated: 28th March 2022 04:33 PM  

R Giridhara R Babu, a renowned epidemiologist and Covid Technical Advisory Committee member, speaks to The New Sunday Express about the Covid-19 pandemic teaching us how the complex links between human, animal and environmental health require coordinated multidisciplinary and multipronged collaboration to address threats from zoonotic diseases. “The global public health community needs to act decisively now. ‘One Health’ is the need of the hour,” he said.


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