NRW Forschungskolleg
One Health and Urban Transformation - identifying risks and developing sustainable solutions
The NRW Forschungskolleg One Health and Urban Transformation – identifying risks and developing sustainable solutions is a transdisciplinary graduate school seeking integrated interventions to attain optimal health for humans, animals, plants and the environment.
One Health and Urban Transformation graduate school is hosted in Bonn (Germany), at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in cooperation with multiple institutes of the University of Bonn, the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) of the University of Applied Science Bonn Rhein-Sieg (HBRS), and the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
Currently, the graduate school is conducting research in four metropolitan regions all over the world: the Ruhr Metropolis (Germany); Ahmedabad (India), Accra (Ghana), and São Paulo (Brazil).
The NRW Forschungskolleg One Health and Urban Transformation is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, MKW).
In the One Health Symposium 2020, former program coordinator Dr. Timo Falkenberg, PhD candidate Anna Brückner, and the current coordinator Ana Maria Perez Arredondo presented the graduate school, its research sites, topics, and the theoretical and operational frameworks.
