Fifth Scientific Steering Committee Meeting on National One Health Mission Held in New Delhi

The Fifth Meeting of the Scientific Steering Committee on One Health was held on 18th May 2026 at Kartavya Bhavan 3, New Delhi under the chairmanship of Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India.

The meeting was attended by Dr. Rajiv Bahl, Secretary, Department of Health (DHR) and DG Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR); Dr. Parvinder Maini, Scientific Secretary, Office of PSA (OPSA); Dr M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES); Dr. Ranjan Das, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC); senior representatives from ICMR; Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC); Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD); Department of Biotechnology (DBT); Department of Science & Technology (DST); Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO); National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS); MoES, Ministry of Ayush; NCDC; National Institute for One Health (NIOH); Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP); OPSA, and Gujarat state representatives.
Updates were also presented by the Chairs and Member Secretaries of key work streams under the Advisory and Review Committees, including BSL-3/4 Laboratories chaired by Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar, Technology-Enhanced Surveillance chaired by Dr. N.K. Arora, Data integration and data sharing committee chaired by Dr. Vijay Chandru and Medical Countermeasures chaired by Dr Renu Swarup and presented by Dr. Nivedita Gupta, ICMR.(updated on 18th may 2026)