Workshop report: Everyday environmental heritage is key to unlocking the social dimensions of One Health

International health organizations and experts and researchers from diverse fields consider the “One Health” concept (interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health) key to understanding global health security challenges such as the risk of pandemics from zoonotic disease emergence. However, the knowledge surrounding One Health retains critical blind spots for effective intervention design which we seek to address in this backstory article. We foreground lessons learned from an international workshop on everyday environmental heritage, held in Lao PDR in December 2024, to demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary and participatory exchanges for advancing the frontier of One Health scholarship and practice.