This is a two hour seminar, organised jointly by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, but open for registration to any interested person or institution in Norway. We will have five 15-20 minute presentations on very different research aspects - from zoonotic pathogens (bacteria, parasites) to non-zoonotic pathogens (the effect of African Swine fever on human health in Sweden after the first findings there), to plant health, to comparative medicine.

Anthropogenic factors occurring in the Anthropocene have increased in the last half century, ecological disruptions and Anthropocene threats have become widespread. It has been understood that these Complex Health Problems (CHP’s) of the 21st century “arising from the synergism of factors” affecting the socio-ecological system, cannot be solved with the traditional approach. Huge threats necessitate dynamism and holistic paradigms.