One Health

Joana C. Prata, DVM, PhD, conducts research on environmental challenges under the One Health and on sustainable approaches to mitigate them under the Circular Economy. She holds a master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine (2016) from the University of Porto, Portugal, being a certified veterinarian, and a PhD degree in Biology and Ecology of Global Change (2021) from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has published 40 scientific papers and has a h-index of 15 (2021). Ana Isabel Ribeiro (MPH, PhD) is an epidemiologist and health geographer. She is a Researcher at the Public Health Institute of the University of Porto and Principal Investigator of two projects about neighbourhoods and health. Ana is the leader/founder of the Research Lab ‘Health and Territory', a research group of the IRT - Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health. She is particularly interested in understanding how the social (e.g., deprivation) and biogeophysical context (e.g., pollution, green space) where individuals live influence their health and well-being and in emerging health risks such as climate change and environmental degradation. At the same time, she is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine (University of Porto), teaching Epidemiology, Demography and Geographic Information Systems. Since 2019, she is an Associate Editor of the Journal Public Health Reviews. Teresa Rocha-Santos has graduated in Analytical Chemistry (1996), obtained a PhD in Chemistry (2000) and an Aggregation in Chemistry (2018), both at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Presently, she is a Principal Researcher at Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry of University of Aveiro (since 2014) and Vice-coordinator of CESAM research centre (from 2021). Her research concentrates on the development of new analytical methodologies fit for purpose and on the study of emerging contaminants (such as microplastics) fate and behaviour in the environment and during wastewater treatment. She published 170 scientific papers (Oct 2021) and has an h-index of 43 (Oct 2021). She is the editor of 7 Books. She is a member of the editorial board of Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health, Elsevier (since 2017), Data in brief, Elsevier (since 2018), Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier (since 2018), Sensors, MDPI (since 2018), Molecules, MDPI (since 2018), Associate Editor of Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Springer (since 2016), and Associate Editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (since 2019) and Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances (since 2021).

1. An introduction to the concept of One Health
2. Public health, surveillance systems and preventive medicine in an interconnected world
3. Epidemiology of disease through the interactions between humans, domestic animals, and wildlife
4. Risk and benefits of companion animals
5. Food and water security and safety for an ever-expanding human population
6. The influence of social and economic environment on health
7. Environmental contaminants and antibiotic resistance as a One Health threat
8. Climate change and its impacts on health, environment and economy
9. Degradation of ecosystems and loss of ecosystem services
10. Challenges and future perspectives for the application of One Health