Archive · 20 Nov 2025
India Launches National One Health Mission to Combat Pandemics
India's new National One Health Mission brings together different ministries to work together to protect humans, animals, plants, and the environment from diseases.
They're building special labs to find and stop diseases early, and they're working together to be ready for future health threats.
India's National One Health Mission (NOHM) unites 16 ministries for pandemic preparedness
Mission aims to monitor antimicrobial resistance and infectious pathogens
High-containment labs established for early detection and swift response
One Health approach to enable early warning systems and integrated interventions
Mission brings together human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors
- Who
- Union Health Minister J P Nadda, Dr V. K. Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog
- What
- Launched the National One Health Mission (NOHM)
- When
- Thursday
- Where
- India
- Why
- To boost India’s preparedness against pandemics impacting different life forms
Proponents of NOHM
Potential Critics
Inter-ministerial cooperation
Proponents of NOHM
Essential for comprehensive pandemic preparedness
Potential Critics
Potential challenges in coordinating 16 ministries effectively
- Ministries involved
- 16 Central and State Ministries/Departments
- Labs established
- BioSafety Level-3 and BioSafety Level-4 cabinets
- Mission focus
- Monitoring antimicrobial resistance and infectious pathogens
- Surveillance activities
- Integrated surveillance across various sectors
- Objective
- Early detection and response to emerging or mutating pathogens