Implementing the “One Health” approach in public policy

  • Category: Lecture Series "Perspectives on Life in Society"
  • Dates: October 14, 2025
  • Schedule: From 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (followed by a cocktail reception until 8:30 p.m.)
  • Location: Saint Charles Campus – Paul Valéry University – Auditorium (MSH) – 71 Henri Serre Street, 34090 Montpellier

The Montpellier School of Humanities (MSH SUD) and the Toulouse School of Humanities (MSHS-T), the BiodivOc, RIVOC, and Octaave research initiatives, the University of Montpellier (AEB Cluster), Paul Valéry University (UPVM), and the doctoral school “Territories, Time, Society, and Development ” (ED 60) are pleased to invite you to the next conference in the series “Perspectives on Life in Society.”

Everysecond Tuesday of the month between October 2025 and May 2026.

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly highlighted the urgent need to consider the links between animal health, human health, and environmental health as an integrated whole. This led to the adoption in 2021 of an international definition of One Health, aimed at fostering synergies between policy-making sectors and scientific disciplines, with a view to making this approach fully operational.

By fostering dialogue among health ecology research, public policy, and environmental law, Nathalie CHARBONNEL (INRAe, CBGP, Montpellier), David GOMIS (Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole) and Claire LAJAUNIE (INSERM, LPED, Marseille) will discuss One Health governance and its implications for the environment and ecology through examples of implementation at the local level.

This lecture series brings together experts from the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and ecology (in the broad sense) and environmental studies on the other, to explore major environmental issues and broaden perspectives toward an interdisciplinary approach.

Eight doctoral schools in Occitanie (ED58, ED60, and Gaïa in Montpellier; SEVAB and SDU2E in Toulouse; ED305 and ED544 in Perpignan; and ED Risques et société in Nîmes) offer this program to their doctoral students as part of their training (registration required via ADUM).

The primary goal is therefore to foster “interdisciplinary understanding,” particularly among early-career researchers (although the seminars will be open to the entire scientific community), and to demonstrate how the same subject can be studied in very different ways by different disciplines. In the longer term, the goal is to encourage aspiring researchers to incorporate interdisciplinary approaches into their day-to-day work.

The series, offered in a hybrid format, is broadcast live from the Maison des sciences de l’Homme.

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