Summer School: One Health Approaches to Climate-sensitive Infectious Diseases and Nature-based Solutions

Are you a passionate scientist or young professional eager to tackle the complex challenges of infectious diseases in a changing climate?

Join us in Rotterdam and Heidelberg this summer and deepen your understanding of the One Health methods and practical tools to study and address risks of infectious diseases. In this summer school, we will focus on connections between infectious diseases, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and climate change and equip you with fieldwork, lab and modelling approaches.

Context

Intensifying climate change and human activities to adapt to its threats, such as NbS impact ecosystems and create new socio-ecological interactions changing the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. Addressing these intertwined challenges requires researchers and practitioners work across disciplines, integrate diverse data sources, engage communities, and design novel approaches to monitoring and actions.

Summer school

This summer school will bring together early-career researchers, practitioners, and students for a transformative 2-week learning experience in Rotterdam (NL) and Heidelberg (DE). The programme will offer theoretical basis and hands-on training in novel approaches to One Health data collection and analysis, including practical fieldwork and lab training, and analyses of the data through modelling workshops, as well as soft skills and a unique opportunity to network with speakers and participants.

Main organisers

ErasmusMC and Heidelberg University have joined forces, to bring together a unique programme that will equip participants with the practical and conceptual tools needed to understand and respond to changing risks of vector-borne diseases.

For further information and applications, please check the website.