One Health
Human beings, animals, the environment, ecosystems: we are interconnected. And our health, too, depends on the health of the planet, animals and plants.
For this reason, the One Health approach brings together the knowledge and expertise of specialists in each field to ensure the health and wellbeing of all.
The boundaries between the various branches of science are overcome, and experts from different disciplines work together.
The project takes research beyond laboratories and university classrooms, connecting researchers with local stakeholders. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to foster the exchange of knowledge in order to build new collaborative processes together. On the other hand, to disseminate knowledge by involving everyone in a shared journey around the major theme of One Health.
Several Unipd departments have developed one health initiatives as part of their third mission projects, namely projects specifically aimed at society and the local area; they have launched specific research projects or offer postgraduate courses on this topic, such as the master's degrees in Global epidemiology: advancing health with AI and one-health perspectives and in Geospatial Data Science per la salute dell’uomo, degli animali e dell’ambiente.
The third mission project of DCTV
Research on the One Health method at MAPS
The Inf-Act research project of the DMM funded by Pnrr
The national PhD
Why talk about health on Earth Day? Simple: because our own health also depends on the health of the planet, animals and plants. While this concept may seem almost self-evident to those working in the field, the connection is perhaps not always so obvious more generally.