Paper short abstract:

This paper explores the exchange relations that shape innovative finance as it relates to 'One Health' governance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic recovery while considering how these relations privilege certain futures in which only some life forms and forms of life have value.

Paper long abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented economic, social, and governmental repercussions, prompting questions about how the world can best prepare for and respond to emerging disease threats. The damage caused by recent zoonotic outbreaks of MERS, SARS, the 2009 H1N1 epidemics, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and now the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have blurred the lines between sustainability and global health and has demanded attention from a diverse set of global stakeholders.

This paper explores the exchange relations that shape innovative finance as it relates to One Health governance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic recovery while considering how these relations privilege certain futures in which only some life forms and forms of life have value. The use of markets to drive incentives for pandemic risk reduction in low-and-middle-income countries in the midst of evolving relationships and perspectives amongst various stakeholders in finance and ‘One Health’ creates multiple orders in global health and sustainability. Rather than exploring pandemic preparedness and finance as separate entities, this paper reimagines boundaries between economic, legal, social, cultural and political realms by approaching finance through a multicultural and multispecies lens to introduce new approaches for understanding the marketization of global health to promote sustainability and mitigate risks for future pandemic outbreak.