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Over the last two decades, there is a growing understanding, globally, on the interrelatedness of human health and wellbeing with that of animal health as well as healthy environment. This has resulted in diverse policy perspectives and communities of practice in global health such as ‘Environment and health’, ‘One Health’, ‘Planetary Health’, ‘Biodiversity and Health’, ‘Eco-social Health’, ‘Climate Change and Health’, ‘Conservation Health’ and so on. The recently concluded 71st World Health Assembly from 20 to 26th May deliberated on these broad environmental and social drivers and emerging perspectives of health [1,2]. Much has been written and discussed about this wider health landscape recently. A latest study suggests that 22 percent of the global burden of diseases in economically poor countries is related to environmental factors [3]. The State of Knowledge Review on Biodiversity and Health published in 2015 by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) assesses multiple linkages and highlights the nexus between Biodiversity and Health through various thematic areas including traditional medicine and natural products of health and nutrition [4]. Interlinkages between human, animal and environmental health is better appreciatedwith the emergence of ‘OneHealth’. In 2010, the WHO entered into a tripartite agreement with Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The ‘One Health’ approach largely focuses on the risks associated with animal and environmental factors based on the narratives of newly emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) aswell as the associated global economic burden; yet it gives a huge opportunity for holistic intersectoral collaboration across human, animal and environmental health. The recent outbreak of deadlyNipah virus inKerala is a typical