One Health is a broad interdisciplinary approach that addresses health issues at the human-animal-environment interface. As global challenges such as climate change, urbanisation, pollution, disease, inequality, and biodiversity loss escalate, the need for such an integrated approach to address interlinked health crises becomes ever more pressing.

The focus of this workshop is on:

How changing environments have altered interactions at this interface that drive infectious disease (in humans, livestock and/or wildlife);
The mitigation of negative health impacts through building/maintenance of sustainable environments with high biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

The aims of the workshop are to:

Identify novel groups of researchers with interests in collaboration on One Health and Infectious Disease in Africa
Map potential topics for collaboration
Explore links to the University of Manchester’s Africa strategy
Identify potential future funding opportunities

This workshop will bring together researchers from across the University who are working in, or would like to work in, this space, including, but not limited to: biologists, medics, mathematicians, social scientists, geographers, engineers and economists. We envisage that while some researchers might work on infectious disease directly, others may work on factors that affect interactions and disease transmission indirectly, e.g. water availability, urbanisation, land use, etc.

If you would like to give a 5-minute presentation on your research interests at the workshop relevant to this research, please email: sustainablefutures@manchester.ac.uk

Agenda:

14:00 Welcome, tea and coffee

14:15 – 16:00 Introduction, presentations and workshop

16:00 – 16:30 Networking

Please join us for this initial broad discussion with follow on, more focussed, workshops to develop specific research bids planned downstream.

This workshop is open to UoM academics who are eligible to apply for external funding.

Research Workshop: Africa One Health