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One Health Forum at NMBU: collaboration across disciplines
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The One Health Forum is a cross‑faculty arena that brings together NMBU’s broad scientific expertise and key national partners (FHI, NIBIO, NVI) to address the interconnected health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. By providing a permanent platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and systems‑thinking approaches, the Forum strengthens NMBU’s ability to respond to complex global challenges and supports the development of shared research priorities, joint methodologies, and coordinated funding strategies. It also serves as a training hub for future researchers, integrating One Health perspectives across PhD, master’s, bachelor’s, and continuing‑education activities.

01 May 2026 - 01 May 2029

NMBU

About the arena

  • Background

    The health of humans, animals, and ecosystems is increasingly shaped by interacting global pressures, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, food-system intensification, and emerging infectious diseases. These drivers operate across biological, ecological, and societal scales, resulting in feedback that amplifies risks and complicates control measures, sometimes throwing up unexpected consequences. Despite growing recognition of these interdependencies, research and governance responses remain largely sectoral and fragmented, often addressing isolated symptoms rather than the systemic interactions that determine health outcomes. Addressing such complex challenges therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach, in which the interfaces between multiple perspectives (ecological, veterinary, medical, biological, environmental, social, economic, etc.) are in focus.

  • Objective

    The One Health Forum aims to operationalize NMBU’s strategic ambition by creating an open platform that mobilizes complementary expertise across all faculties. By integrating biological, environmental, social, economic, technological, and veterinary perspectives, the Forum provides a shared systems-thinking framework for addressing complex health challenges across humans, animals, and ecosystems. It strengthens interdisciplinary collaboration by connecting research environments across environmental sciences, molecular and biological disciplines, food and veterinary sciences, ecology, technology, and the social sciences, helping identify common priorities, methodological synergies, and coordinated approaches to external funding.

    The Forum also works to enhance NMBU’s external visibility and collaborative reach, positioning the university as an attractive partner in national and international One Health initiatives. Through coordinated outreach and engagement, it contributes to long-term capacity building for integrated One Health research in Norway. In addition, the Forum supports researcher education and competence development by offering opportunities for students and early-career researchers to engage in transdisciplinary work and systems-thinking approaches, helping train a new generation equipped to address emerging One Health challenges.

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Participants

2026.09.16 Kick-off Meeting One Health Forum

  • Project leaders

  • Faculty Representatives

  • Other Participants

Projects

  • Ongoing Projects

    Project no. 1

    Project no. 2

  • Completed Projects

    Project no. 1

    Project no. 2

Activities

  • Activities 2026

    14
    Sept

    Kick-off Meeting: One Health Forum at NMBU

    0830-1230 hrs
    Møterom Fornix, Veterinærbygningen

    3
    Nov

    One Health Day

    Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2026
    Venue: Auditorium, NIBIO, Oluf Thesens vei 43, 1433 Ås
    Tentative Program
    - Opening remarks
    - Keynote speech
    - Presentations
    - Lunch
    - Lightning talks
    - Plenary discussion
    - Concluding remarks

    NB: Due to access restrictions at NIBIO, registration is mandatory. All participants, including speakers are therefore required to complete the registration form (https://nettskjema.no/a/659348) by 26 October 2026

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