One Health PhD Course Bringing Students Together
As part of the YoungArctic project, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, a two-day PhD course at Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland was funded through the UArctic Norwegian Funding for Networking Activities on Arctic Research and Education. The course was followed by individual three-minute pitch presentations at the Nunamed 2025 health conference in Nuuk, Greenland.
On October 1 and 2, 2025, Greenland Center for Health Research at the Institute of Health and Nature (Ilisimatusarfik) held a two-day PhD course focusing on the concept of One Health and its impact on health research in the Arctic. The course spotlighted how the health of humans, animals, and the environment is closely connected, and how this perspective can contextualize and thus strengthen health research in Arctic areas.
A total of 18 international PhD students from Greenland, Canada, New Zealand, The Faroe Islands, and Denmark participated.
Through lectures and practical exercises, students worked independently and in groups to relate the concept of One Health to their own PhD projects. This was followed by individual, three-minute pitch presentations at two well-attended thematic sessions during the NUNAMED conference. Here, research ideas and results were shared, and participants gained valuable experience in communicating complex research areas in a short and easily understandable way.
Teaching was led by researchers from Greenland Center for Health Research and partners from the UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic.
The PhD course was an activity under the UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic. For more information, please contact: Gert Mulvad, E-mail: gm@peqqik.gl.