Implementing the “One Health” Approach in Public Policy
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The Montpellier School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MSH SUD) and the Toulouse School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MSHS-T), the key challenges BiodivOc, RIVOC, and Octaave, 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 strongly underscored the urgency of considering the links between animal health, human health, and environmental health as a unified whole. This led to the adoption in 2021 of an international definition of One Health to foster synergies among policy-making sectors and scientific disciplines, with the aim of 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 its implementation at the local level.
This lecture series brings together perspectives from specialists in the humanities and social sciences on one hand, and in ecology (in the broad sense) and the environment on the other, to explore major environmental issues and broaden our understanding through 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 degree program (registration required via ADUM).
The primary goal is therefore “acculturation,” particularly for young 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 scientific 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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