The benefits of One Health in Flanders
Biovia is Europe’s first industry-led One Health innovation cluster—uniting medical biotech, medtech, digital health, agtech and industrial biotech to advance human and planetary health. Katrien Lorré explains how this unified approach benefits companies by unlocking opportunities and fostering a better environment for health innovation.
“Across Flanders, the same technologies that power human medicine can also empower animal, plant and environmental health,” says Katrien Lorré, Biovia’s Domain Lead for medical biotech. “Our job is to connect those dots, break down the walls of the silos and help our members scale their solutions for faster, broader impact.”
Why One Health matters
At its core, One Health is the simple yet profound idea that human, animal, plant and planetary health are inseparable. It is the EU’s framework for tackling problems that cross species and sectors, from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to zoonotic diseases and environmental pollution.
“One Health is not a slogan,” Lorré adds. “It’s Europe’s way of working smarter on shared challenges that no single sector can solve alone.”