One Health platform presentation session
On Wednesday 3 November, the conference hall of the Rectorat building played host to a strategic session entitled One Health: a cross-disciplinary vision, under the framework of the official presentation of the nation-wide platform for Spain (Una Sola Salud).
The objective of this session, which was presided by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente, was to remark the importance of the One Health strategy’s cross-disciplinary approach. The main theme debated was the impact of anthropogenic-management practices on the health of humans, animals and the environment. The session served to discuss relevant aspects such as its effects on the spreading of diseases, the climate and resource sustainability, the impact on vector transmission, biodiversity and ecosystems. The event formed part of the official launch of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud), of which the UAB is a member.
Programme and participants:
10:00 Official opening of the event
– Francisco Javier Lafuente, Rector of the UAB*
*Member of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud)
10:05 Presentation of the session and speakers
– Jaume Farrés, Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, UAB – Member of the Spanish Conference of Biology Deans*
*Member of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud)
10:10 Presentation of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud)
– Maite Martín, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UAB and President of the Spanish Conference of Veterinary Medicine Deans – President of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud)
10:15 Political Ecologies of Health
– Panagiota Kotsila, Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) & Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), UAB
10:20 La Biologia com a fonament de la Salut Animal, Humana i Mediambiental
– Josep Santaló, Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, UAB – Member of the Ethics Committee in Animal and Human Experimentation at the UAB and of the Observatory for Bioethics and Law at the UB
10:25 Clima, patógenos y enfermedades infecciosas desde una perspectiva de “Planetary Health”
– Jaime Martínez-Urtaza, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB – Member of the international consortium Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
10:30 Ecologia de la salut global
– Francisco Lloret, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, UAB – Vice President of the Spanish Association of Land Ecology*
*Member of the One Health Platform (Una Sola Salud)
10:35 L’Ecoimmunologia en el compromís i la cooperació interdisciplinària en matèria de salut
– Mercè Martí and Carme Roura, Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology – Vice Dean of Students and Employability, Faculty of Biosciences, UAB
10:40 Reptes sobre la Salut Humana en el context actual
– Francesc Barquinero, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology – Vice Dean of Academic Programmes and Quality, Faculty of Biosciences, UAB
10:45 Impacto de la gestión antropogénica del Planeta sobre el cáncer: importancia de la investigación biomédica bàsica
– Jose Miguel Lizcano, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute for Neuroscience, UAB – Vall d’Hebron Institute for Research (VHIR)
10:50 Estratègies de control d’arbovirosis a Catalunya: un exemple de treball multidisciplinari
– Fernando Salvador, Infectious Diseases Unit, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital
10:55 Next Generation Sequencing tools for translational biomedical research on emergent, re-emergent and new viral infections
– Josep Quer, Vall d’Hebron Institute for Research (VHIR) – Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus – Member of the Spanish Virology Society
11:00 Bacteriòfags en mostres clíniques humanes. Els seus papers en l’adquisició i difusió de gens de resistència i patogenicitat
– Ferran Navarro, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB – Microbiology Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
11:05 Estratègies de lluita contra l’actual pandèmia silenciosa
– Susana Campoy, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB – Coordinator of the Research Group in Molecular Microbiology – Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology
11:10 Impacte de les resistencies antimicrobianes en el medi ambient: el paper de la fauna salvatge com a sentineles
– Laila Darwich, Department of Animal Health and Anatomy -Coordinator of the International Master’s Degree in Zoonoses and One Health, UAB
11:15 Tòxics invisibles. La construcció de la ignorància ambiental
– Agustí Nieto-Galan, Department of Philosophy – Director of the Institute for the History of Science, UAB
11:20 La crisis mundial de la contaminación por plásticos: salud humana, animal y ambiental en juego
– Alba Hernández Bonilla, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB – Group in Mutagenesis
11:25 Impacte potencial dels microplàstics sobre l’estat de salut d’organismes i ecosistemes marins del Mediterrani
– Maite Carrassón, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, UAB – Vice Rector in Academic Quality and Accreditation – Head of the Research Group in the Health of Ecosystems and Aquatic Animals (SEAaq)
11:30 Plantes i fongs a l’entorn natural i urbà, transport atmosfèric i salut global
– Jordina Belmonte, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology – ICTA, UAB
11:35 Biofortificació vegetal amb Se, una metodologia per aconseguir un augment adequat, eficient i segur de Se a la dieta
– Mercè Llugany, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, UAB – Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Biology, Genomics and Plant Biotechnology
11:40 Bioclimatologia vegetal. La salut forestal: Aforestació i Deforestació
– Miquel Ninyerola, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology – Coordinator of the Botanics Unit – Member of the SGR Grumets (Group of GIS and Remote Sensing Methods)
11:45 Teràpia gènica: des de la recerca bàsica a l’aplicació en humans
– Miguel Chillón, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Institute for Neurosciences, UAB – Vall d’Hebron Institute for Research (VHIR)
11:50 Debate:
With the participation of experts and members of the audience:
Laila Darwich, Department of Animal Health and Anatomy -Coordinator of the International Master’s Degree in Zoonoses and One Health, UAB
Jaime Martínez-Urtaza, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB – Member of the international consortium Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Alberto Moreno, HIPRA Scientific
Agustí Nieto-Galan, Department of Philosophy, UAB – Director of the Institute of the History of Science, UAB
Fernando Salvador, Infectious Diseases Unit, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital
12:15 Closing session
The UAB, with Sustainable Development Goals
Good health and well-being