Overview
How are human, animal and environmental health interconnected? How do zoonoses, antibiotic resistance and climate change affect global health systems? And how can interdisciplinary research contribute to sustainable and resilient solutions?
The Master’s programme in One Health explores the interdependencies between health, environmental and agricultural systems from a global perspective. It addresses complex challenges such as infectious diseases, sustainable food systems and ecological resilience. By combining environmental and agricultural sciences with medical and veterinary perspectives, the programme establishes an integrative One Health profile that bridges traditionally separate fields of expertise.
Throughout the programme, you receive interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary training at the interface of public health, nutrition, epidemiology, ecology and the social sciences. The curriculum strengthens systemic thinking and equips you to understand how diseases emerge and spread, how risks can be assessed and how data from different sources can be meaningfully integrated. As you progress, you deepen your methodological expertise and learn to design research strategies, work confidently with epidemiological and biostatistical methods, and interpret complex health-related data.
The programme concludes with a Master’s thesis that brings together independent research and interdisciplinary analysis. You develop research questions, integrate data from different disciplines and communicate your findings in a way that is understandable to experts, stakeholders, and decision-makers. With its strong research orientation, the programme provides excellent preparation for doctoral studies and for academic or research-based career paths.