A One Health and interdisciplinarity approach – a prerequisite for the complex challenges we face

A new semester stands at the door and we feel excited to continue our journey of implementing the One Health perspective and stimulating more interdisciplinary collaborations among SLU researchers. We do this, among other things, by facilitating:

The One Health Breakfast Club, where we meet and mingle, get inspired by each other while eating breakfast together. Keep an eye out for all upcoming dates this autumn – see you there! (the picture above is from our breakfast before the summer).
For the second year in a row, the Future Platforms offer a group of researchers to join our Researcher residency, with the aim to strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary research at SLU.
Series of climate conversations – this autumn we continue the series with an internal dialogue on climate and animal food production. Feel most welcome to participate!

We also provide you a summary from the World Water Week last week, an interview with Tarquin who recently defended his thesis, as well as tips on more upcoming events related to One Health.

Pleasant reading!

Psst! Do you have colleagues who might be interested in reading news about One Health – please spread the word!

Photo: Eva-Stina Lindell

Meet our new program coordinator Elisabeth Rajala

I started the assignment as platform coordinator earlier this year and I am very much looking forward to supporting and strengthening SLU's interdisciplinary One Health research through various activities, such as the One Health PhD course.

Read the interview with Elisabeth

A tractor drives on dry soil, mountains are visible in the background.

Innovative solutions for promoting healthy rangelands under a changing climate

Take home messages from the World Water Week webinar: Healthy rangelands for enhanced water security under a changing climate – a summary written by some CA4SH-members together with Aida, our campus coordinator in Umeå

Rangelands cover about half of the Earth’s land surface, store between 10 and 30% of terrestrial carbon, and support over 2 billion people, yet they are under-recognized and under-valued and have been largely ignored in sustainable development agendas and climate negotiations.

Photo: Tor Vågen

Read the blog post here

Information about the program and speakers

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New dissertation within One Health

We congratulate Tarquin Netherway!

What is "the big idea" about your research?

My main focus is on symbioses between plants and microbes such as bacteria and fungi, in particular how the interactions between plants, root-symbiotic fungi, and soil microbes influence ecological and biogeochemical processes such as plant and forest health and carbon and nutrient cycling.

Photo: Janina Heinen

More about Tarquin and his research

Climate Conversations at SLU – the dialogue continues!

The Future Platforms and SLU Global have organised a series of climate conversations during 2021-2023. Next time, we invite researchers at SLU to join our webinar:

Climate-impact of animal food production – what do we know and what are the knowledge gaps?

If you missed previous webinars you'll find a summary of all the events below, with take-home messages and some recordings.

Photo: iStock

Registration/more information

More about the CC-series

Food production, nutrition and global health – sustainable food for all?

GlobeLife Seminar | 11 September

SLU Future One Health, together with Globelife (a collaboration between Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet), is organising the seminar "Food production, nutrition and global health - sustainable food for all?".

Most welcome to participate!

Photo: iStock

Transformative Shifts: Integration, Wholeness, and Wellness

45th Annual Conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies | 26-28 October

In recent years, we have collectively endured many transformative shifts in the way we work, teach, interact, engage, and relate to one another. Our conference theme hopes to encourage scholars and practitioners to help us articulate our understanding and practice of integration, wholeness, and wellness.

SLU takes interdisciplinarity forward

How important is interdisciplinarity in research and education for SLU to achieve its strategic objective to play a key role in the transition to a sustainable society? What investments does SLU make to develop interdisciplinarity in research and education?

As a part of the IDA (Interdisciplinary Academy) initiative at SLU, SLU's four Future Platforms invite all SLU personnel to a discussion with a focus on interdisciplinarity, where various initiatives are presented.

Foto: 925am / Shutterstock.

Breakfast buffet with coffee, juice and more. Photo.

The One Health Breakfast Club

Our aim with The One Health Breakfast Club is to stimulate interdisciplinary and cross-faculty collaborations. We meet and greet on a regular basis, to hopefully gain some new insights and inspiration while having breakfast together.

Join us next time when Michael Jones from SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM) talks about "A Systems Perspective on Future One Health and Sustainability”. The last day to sign up is today!

See you there!

Photo: Natalia Klenova.

September

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises that the health of humans health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.