The One Health Summit took place in Lyon, France, with the High-Level Summit on 7 April 2026, coinciding with World Health Day.
Jean-Louis Hunault, Secretary general of Diagnostistics for Animals, and our consultant, Sandra Dejean, represented our federation.
Organized around three panels, the high-level session presented key high-level deliverables by Heads of State and Government.
👉 Watch the One Health Summit High-Level Session
👉 And the Summit Schedule.
One pillar remained discreet during the One Health Summit last week: veterinary diagnostics.
In its recommendations presented on April 6, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire – Anses recalls the need to use diagnostic tests to guide treatment.
Veterinary diagnostics manufacturers have already adopted a One Health approach:
➡️ During the COVID crisis, companies like Innovative Diagnostics, BioSellal and IDEXX rapidly scaled up production of detection kits.
➡️ The development of viral detection kits in wastewater at the human/animal/environmental interface is a concrete One Health innovation largely driven by these actors.
➡️ In the fight against AMR, veterinary diagnostics guides treatments, reduces unnecessary prescriptions and monitors resistance in livestock: exactly what the recommendations call for.
✅ This capacity is already organised. Diagnostics For Animals unites manufacturers around shared strategic priorities, collaborates with WOAH and EAVLD, and has developed a unique mapping of international regulatory requirements for veterinary diagnostic kits, a tool I contributed to as regulatory consultant.
One Health will be built with all its pillars. Veterinary diagnostics is one of them.
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