Doctoral Programme in One Health

One Health is a rapidly expanding global approach that recognises a simple truth: the health of humans, animals, and the environment are inseparable. Understanding these connections is essential for solving today’s most complex health challenges – from the health and well-being of animals and humans to emerging infectious diseases, food safety, and environmental change.
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The Doctoral Programme in One Health trains doctoral researchers in the fields of animal health and welfare, translational animal models and comparative medicine, clinical veterinary medicine including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of animal and zoonotic diseases, food safety and food systems, environmental health and antimicrobial resistance.

Teaching and research are supported by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s four departments, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, collaborating faculties, and HiLIFE. Doctoral researchers benefit from exceptional infrastructures, including:

  • the canine and feline biobank and veterinary patient databases, enabling discovery through spontaneous animal disease models
  • the Animal Welfare Centre and reproductive biotechnology units
  • advanced platforms such as histotechnology services, flow cytometry, stem cell technologies, laboratory animal pathology, imaging platforms, and the Laboratory Animal Centre
  • state-of-the-art facilities in food hygiene, food safety, and environmental health, covering genomics, epidemiology, pathogen biology, and risk management
  • Helsinki University Hospital (HUS)
Our programme places you at the heart of this interdisciplinary frontier. You will learn to investigate scientific questions that cross species boundaries, integrate knowledge from multiple fields, and contribute to solutions with real societal impact.
Key research areas
  • Animal health, welfare and behaviour
  • Clinical veterinary medicine
  • Comparative medicine and translational animal models
  • Disease ecology, epidemiology and population health
  • Environmental health, microbiology and toxicology
  • Food safety, food systems and water safety
  • Immunology, vaccinology and host–microbe interactions
  • Infectious diseases, zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance
  • Molecular genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology
  • Nursing science, care systems and implementation research
  • Reproductive, developmental and physiological biology
  • Social sciences, ethics and health policy
Events and Activities

Will be published in the spring 2026.
Courses and Studying

Will be published in the spring 2026.
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