There had been growing concern over a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1 that could spark the next influenza pandemic as traditional public health measures had limited success. Not taken into consideration however, was the necessity to redress ecological imbalances that had given rise to the threat in the first place. This gap calls for adopting an ecohealth perpective-one that focuses on the upstream causes of emerging diseases, with are at root questions of ecosystem degradation and ecological imbalance. This report argues for a balanced approach: taking the necessary steps to restore healthy human-dominated ecosystems and wild ecosystems as major strategies for reducing human health vulnerabilities to avian influenza. The ecohealth approach declares that re-establishing and maintaining healthy ecosystems is the essential precondition for sustaining human and animal health.