Annual business meeting and technical conference 2022: local-level policy recommendations: operationalizing a One Health approach: political statement of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network

We, the mayors and senior political representatives of cities, gathered on 22–24 November 2022, confirm our commitment to the values and principles of the Healthy Cities movement.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the complexity of the public health challenges we face today – challenges that no one sector, group of stakeholders, city or country can address on their own: we cannot solve them in isolation. These challenges require a multisectoral approach and cooperation among multiple stakeholders – in other words, shared challenges require shared solutions and responses.