The One Health Master's degree, based in the prestigious School of Advanced Studies (SSAS) of the Sapienza University of Rome, promoted by the innovative research center National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), is aimed at undergraduates and young master's graduates who wish to contribute to the choices in the political, legislative and healthcare fields that public and private organizations will be called upon to face in the coming years. The Master's also offers growth opportunities to people who already have a job but want to update their managerial skills and facilitate development and change paths.
Since the pandemic, there has been widespread awareness that the planet's health, animals, plants, and humans are intimately interconnected. This is also why we hear more and more often about the concept of One Health: an integrated and unifying system that aims to balance and optimize the health of human beings, animals, plants, and ecosystems in a sustainable way. A holistic approach, which recovers ancient concepts but requires new skills, transversal professional figures capable of orienting policies, verifying the legal aspects, and technical and health implications linked to major strategic decisions in the field of sustainability, health, and biodiversity of the planet.
Predicting, preventing, and improving the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment is the objective of the "One Health Joint Action Plan" launched in 2022 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOH), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). A five-year plan lasting from 2022 to 2026, covering six thematic areas: health systems, emerging and re-emerging zoonotic epidemics and pandemics, zoonoses, neglected and vector-borne tropical diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and food safety.