Abstract
As the COVID‐19 pandemic vividly demonstrates, globalization predicated on the enhanced movement of people, capital, information, and goods across the world has considerably raised the potential for infectious disease epidemics and the magnitude of their impacts. As various new types of social and geographical interconnectivities emerge, changes in the interconnections between humans, animals, and the environment will have profound repercussions for the emergence of and response to disease outbreaks. Notably, in the face of recent changes in the political‐economic and ecological landscapes stemming from large‐scale processes of intensified urbanization, digitalization, and neoliberalization, as well as surveillance and security, the global health community faces formidable challenges in responding to the threats of new and (re‐)emerging diseases.