On 1st November 2019, the Director General of the West African Health Organization (WAHO), Prof Stanley Okolo, convened a High Level Press conference on One Health in the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) region at Hotel 2 Février, Lomé, Togo. The presser was to mark the fourth annual One Health Day, which fell on 3 November 2019, a global campaign that celebrates and brings attention to the need for a One Health approach to address shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface. It was specifically meant to: