To create enabling environments that allow different and often competing sectors to get together and find collaborative ways forward to address challenges at the interface of wildlife health, livestock health, and human health and livelihoods.

Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development was launched by WCS and a consortium of organizations in 2003. By assembling a ‘dream team’ of veterinarians, ecologists, biologists, social and economic scientists, agriculturists, wildlife managers, public health specialists and others from across East and southern Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society, IUCN, and a range of partners tapped into some of the most innovative conservation and development thinking on the African continent- and AHEAD was born. Since then, a range of programs addressing conservation, health, and concomitant development challenges have been launched with the support of a growing list of implementing partners and donors who see the intrinsic value of what WCS has called the One World, One Health™ approach.

Human & Animal health
Information & data sharing
Biodiversity strategy