One Health Day 2024

Target audience: SLU researchers, PhD students, and other researchers interested in One Health research at SLU, as well as prospects for future collaboration.

Date: 15 October

Time: 09:00 - 15:00 (registration and coffee from 8:30)

Cost: Participation is free of charge and the registration includes lunch and coffee (but we do ask that you not be a contributor to food waste - so don't order a meal unless you are absolutely sure)

Language: The event will be conducted in English

Organiser: SLU Future One Health

Note! This is a face-to-face meeting on all three main campuses that will be linked together via video conference

Programme

One World, One Health – the day aims to present a selection of One Health research (the interface between animal, human, plant and ecosystem health) at SLU and its collaborating partner universities (Uppsala University, Umeå University and Lund University).

We will engage in interdisciplinary discussions, explore collaborative opportunities to enhance the One Health concept, attract research funding, and contribute to a sustainable future.

8:30-09:00 Registration, coffee and sandwich 

9.00 Welcome by SLU's vice-chancellor Maria Knutson Wedel

9.10 Introduction by Susanna Sternberg Lewerin, SLU Future One Health

9.20 Nature, biodiversity and health

• Why biodiversity is good for our health by Frauke Ecke (SLU Umeå)

09.40 Break

10.10 Environmental pollution and One Health 

• Methyl mercury and forestry by Kevin Bishop (SLU Uppsala)
• Exploring genomic prediction and the integration of soil variables for breeding winter wheat cultivars with reduced grain cadmium levels by Therese Bengtsson (SLU Alnarp)
• Soil microbes, management and pollution by Sara Hallin (SLU Uppsala)
• Air pollution and health by Anna Oudin (Lund University)

11.40 Comparative medicine for the benefit of animal and human health

• Precision medicine in dogs with cancer, comparative aspects of immunotherapy in man’s best friend by Henrik Rönnberg (SLU Uppsala)

12.00-13.10 Lunch

13.15 Continuing with Comparative medicine for the benefit of animal and human health

• New functions of immune cells for different tissues and organs by Mia Phillipson (Uppsala University, UDC)

13.35 Global aspects of infectious diseases in animals and people

• Animal diseases threaten global food security by Erika Chenais (SLU, Uppsala)
• Vector-borne zoonoses in a global context by Magnus Evander (Umeå Universtity)

14.10 Climate and health

• Climate change and global health by Maria Nilsson (Umeå University, Lancet commission plus HORIZON incl communication research)
• Extreme weather and animal health by Lena-Mari Tamminen (SLU, Uppsala)

14.45 Final wrap-up

15.00 Closure and coffee