Climate change is one of the biggest threats to human existence on this planet. Human health is under constant threat from new diseases and global pandemics caused by zoonosis, or diseases jumping from animals to humans.
To fight the grave threat that the world might face in near future, it is critical that governments, scientists, researchers, and policy analysts around the world integrate health, environmental, and animal welfare research, policy, and decision-making and no longer treat them as separate unrelated fields.