Public evening lecture by Dr Angela Kathrin Martin (Greifswald/Freiburg in Switzerland)

"One Health" describes holistic approaches that recognise the interdependence of human, animal and natural health. They require interdisciplinary cooperation in order to achieve optimal health for humans, animals and nature. However, One Health strategies can raise ethical questions and lead to conflicts and ethical trade-off challenges between human, animal and environmental health. This presentation introduces the basic assumptions of One Health, describes ethical challenges at the interface of human, animal and environmental health and presents the values and ethical principles that can be used to address such conflicts and challenges in practice.

Angela Martin has been a lecturer at the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) since autumn 2024. She specialises in applied ethics, in particular animal ethics, medical ethics and environmental ethics. She defended her doctoral thesis on the concept of vulnerability at the University of Geneva in 2014 and has since researched and taught at various universities in Switzerland, Canada, England, Spain and Germany. Angela Kathrin Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald in the summer semester 2026.

Moderation: Professor Dr Dr Martin Gorke