Save the date! 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 includes lunch and coffee

Language: The event will be held 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

Preliminary programme

(with subject to changes)

One World, One Health – the day aims to present a selection of One Health research (the interface between animal, human, plants 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.

Agenda:

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

9.00 Welcome by the vice-chancellor Maria Knutson Wedel

9.10 Introduction by Susanne Sternberg Lewerin, SLU Future One Health

Preliminary topics:

• Healthy food needs healthy plants, animals and environment
• Preserve biodiversity to promote health 
• Preserve antimicrobials for human, animal and plant health 
• Reduce the spread of infectious diseases in human and animal populations 
• Comparative medicine for the benefit of animal and human health
• Sustainable management of water and soils – the key to all life 
• Environmental pollution affects the health of people, animals and plants 
• Nature and health
• Climate and Health 

15:00 Closure