(The environment, an essential element of One Health) ,On April 27 and 28, 2023, the ninth edition of the (WVA ) Global One Health Summit will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, with the theme “The environment, an essential element of One Health”, within the 38th World Veterinary Association Congress framework. This Summit is an excellent opportunity to find concrete actions to apply the One Health approach on the ground.This was published at the official site of )WVA), and pointed that, with this event, the (WVA) is willing to contribute to making One Health an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.During the second day of the summit, there will be a veterinary education seminar that brings together leaders in veterinary education from around the world to analyze how to respond to the current demand for veterinarians that the global society needs, taking into account the context of One Health without forgetting the environmental aspects of this approach.It was known that, the first WVA Global Summit was held in 2011 in Cape Town.