One Health Approaches to Climate-sensitive Infectious Diseases and Nature-based Solutions
Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Heidelberg, Germany
17-28 August 2026
Join us in Rotterdam and Heidelberg this summer and deepen your understanding of the One Health methods and practical tools to study and address risks of infectious diseases. In this summer school, we will focus on connections between vector-borne diseases, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and climate change and equip you with fieldwork, lab and modelling approaches.
Context
Intensifying climate change and human activities to adapt to its threats, such as NbS impact ecosystems and create new socio-ecological interactions changing the transmission dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases. Addressing these intertwined challenges requires researchers and practitioners work across disciplines, integrate diverse data sources, engage communities, and design novel approaches to monitoring and actions.
Our summer school
This summer school will bring together early-career researchers, practitioners, and students for a transformative 2-week learning experience in Rotterdam (NL) and Heidelberg (DE). The programme will offer theoretical basis and hands-on training in novel approaches to One Health data collection and analysis, including practical fieldwork and lab training, and analyses of the data through modelling workshops, as well as soft skills and a unique opportunity to network with speakers and participants.
Organisers
ErasmusMC and Heidelberg University have joined forces, to bring together a unique programme that will equip participants with the practical and conceptual tools needed to understand and respond to changing risks of vector-borne diseases.
2
cities
30
participants
12
days
Week 1 will be hosted by ErasmusMC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The program of this week will be available soon.
Week 2 will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing in Heidelberg, Germany. The program of this week will be available soon.
Speakers
Joacim Rocklöv
Heidelberg University
Gilbert Hughes joined Hub Constructon in 1955 as an estimator/project manager, after previously working months as a laborer.
Marion Koopmans
ErasmusMC
Gilbert Hughes joined Hub Constructon in 1955 as an estimator/project manager, after previously working months as a laborer.
Mary Hughes
Proffessor
Gilbert Hughes joined Hub Constructon in 1955 as an estimator/project manager, after previously working months as a laborer.
Fees & funding
A small participation fee of 200 EUR will cover lectures, field trips, and coffee breaks.
Scholarships are available.