Keynote: Integrated Approach to Ecosystems: The Place of One Health and its Future Prof. Dr Jakob Zinsstag, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Allschwil, Switzerland
One Health in Action: Balancing Livelihoods, Livestock, and Ecosystems Health in Central Asia Dr. Stephane Ostrowski, Senior Advisor of Temperate Asia Region & Associate Director of Wildlife Health Program, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), New York, U.S.A.
Environmental Stressors and Infectious Diseases in the Arctic Prof. Dr Jacques Godfroid, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Climate and Biodiversity Crises: Threats to Human and Animal Health in Belgium and Beyond MSc Pablo Sagredo Martín, One Health Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Brussels, Belgium
'Your climate change is not my climate change’: An Eco-Health Perspective on Research at the Cutting Edge of Urbanization, Climate Change and Health MSc Stefanie Dens, Civil Engineer, Architect and Urban Designer for the Datahub, Eco-health group, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium
Impact of Wildlife Trade and Risks Associated with Invasive Alien Species
Keynote: A Regional and Global Perspective on Pathogens at the Animal-Human-Environmental Interface Prof. Dr Sascha Knauf, Institute of International Animal Health/One Health, Friedrich Loeffler Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems and Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
Reducing Health Risks in Wildlife Trade Through a Multidimensional Approach Dr. Michael Nagel, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Operationalising a One Health Approach in Wildlife Trade and Disease Risk Management MSc Justine Guiny, Senior Policy Manager TRAFFIC, Brussels, Belgium
Integrating Invasion Science and One Health: A Pathway to More Effective and Sustainable Management of Health and Ecological Challenges Dr. Sonia Vanderhoeven, Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium
The Management of Biological Invasions Within the One Health Concept MSc Riccardo Scalera, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), Rome, Italy
Data and Surveillance
Keynote: Preventing the Emergence of Zoonoses: From Exploring Pathogen Transmission to Implementation of Public Policies Anne-Laure Bañuls, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Montpellier, France
Making Sense of Complexity - The Role of AI in Advancing One Health M. Didier Verloo, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy
Global Biodiversity Data as a Resource for Vector-Borne Disease Research and Policy Prof. Dr Sylvie Manguin, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Montpellier, France
Land Systems Data, Pathogen Vector Data, Are We on the Same Page? Prof. Dr Sophie Vanwambeke, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Wildlife in Focus: Sources or Victims of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases? The Importance of Wildlife Surveillance Prof. Dr Dolores Gavier-Widén, Swedish Veterinary Agency, Uppsala, Sweden
POSTERS
- Leuven One Health - the KU Leuven Institute for One Health
- The biodiversity inside us: the human microbiome as a One Health indicator of health and environmental exposure
- Exotic animals as a pet: how these alien species can be a risk for infectious diseases?
- Monitoring the wild meat trade through DNA barcoding and pathogen screening of passenger-imported meat
- Increasing detections of the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus in Belgium
- Echinococcus multilocularis contamination of commercially grown berries and infection of foxes in the Dutch province of Limburg
- Leveraging ecosystem restoration for zoonotic spillover risk mitigation
- The surveillance of tick bites on humans and additional research opportunities through citizen science in Belgium
- Metagenomic screening of African wild meat unveils a wide diversity of viruses
- Vector competence of Belgian Culex pipiens and Anopheles plumbeus mosquitoes for West Nile Virus under different temperature conditions
- Human disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites
- New routes of Hyalomma to Austria: an unwanted souvenir
- Intercropping dashboard: Fostering food safety and quality
- Mapping the threat: invasive alien species and pathogen risks across Europe
- Environmental, animal and human health: a One Health approach to protected area management and governance in Madagascar
- ZooBiodiv project: supporting the development of a Belgian One World, One Health (OWOH) vision for preventing the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases
- Are turtles a suitable pet or a disguised threat? Potential disease-causing agents in imported pet turtles in Europe
- Coordinated effort for the surveillance of zoonotic influenza in Austria
- Expanding the swimmer’s itch pool of Belgium: a first record of Trichobilharzia regenti
- Climate Justice and Health Equity - The ongoing challenge for the Planetary Health Working Group of the Be-cause health network
- West Nile virus monitoring in Flanders (Belgium) during 2022-2023 reveals endemic Usutu virus circulation in the wild bird population
- Supporting the One Health approach in Belgium: identification of policy-relevant organisms and tissues by BopCo
- Restoring nature's health: Investigating the effects of ecosystem restoration on zoonotic disease risk
- Ecosystem Accounting to support decision-making for infectious disease control
- Vulnerable and detected? Assessing surveillance of wildlife diseases by determining mammal species vulnerability to climate change
For questions or if you need further information about this event please contact: BeOH@sciensano.be.

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