2026 One Health Systems Summit

The One Health Systems Summit is a one-day, plenary-only convening that brings together leaders from across health, housing, social services, animal welfare, education, and policy to address the structural failures affecting families with pets. Held as a pre-conference workshop at the 2026 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo—the largest public health gathering in the United States—the Summit is designed not as a traditional conference, but as a field-building movement focused on redesigning governance, policy, workforce integration, and funding structures so that systems better reflect the needs of modern families. Intended outcomes include a shared, cross-sector framework for One Health systems alignment, identification of structural barriers in law, policy, funding, and governance, actionable policy directions, strengthened partnerships among animal welfare, human health, housing, and social service organizations, and a credible, sustained platform for advancing pet family health equity.