Worth knowing: Preventive animal health in a warmer world
Welcome to a popular science lecture about how climate change affects both animals and humans in many different ways. Epidemiologist Lena-Mari Tamminen details the new challenges that climate change poses – and how we can counter them. The library offers a light lunch before the lecture.
Date: 17 October 2025
Time: 12:15 - 13:00
Organiser: The SLU University Library and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
Venue: The Studio, floor 1 of the Teaching Building, and online
Location: Online, Uppsala
- Lunch is served from 11:45
- Seating is limited and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis
- Please note that this lecture is in Swedish
How do we create resilient animal husbandry systems in a rapidly changing world? For dairy cows, climate change might, among other things, cause more heat stress and more new infections – something that requires better protection and preventive measures on the farm. These new challenges are interconnected and cannot be solved separately. To be effective in the long term, the solutions must also be sustainable for the environment, for the farm’s economy, for the farmer’s work environment and from a societal perspective.
Lena-Mari Tamminen is an epidemiologist at the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
This Worth knowing lecture is a collaboration with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science and part of the celebration of Swedish veterinary medicine’s 250 year anniversary. This anniversary marks a milestone not only for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science but for the whole of SLU, as the veterinary school is the oldest education at the university.
As part of the celebration, several of this year’s Worth knowing lectures will focus on veterinary medicine. Read more about the celebrations here:
- Swedish veterinary medicine 250 years (only in Swedish)
E-mail svm250@slu.se if you have questions about the anniversary.
Take part online, live or afterwards
If you are unable to attend in the studio, you can watch live on SLU Play and on the SLU University Library’s Facebook page. The lecture will also be available to watch afterwards on SLU Play, but it will take a couple of weeks before it is published there.
Please note that the number of seats in the Studio is limited. The seats are distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
Worth knowing
Worth knowing is the SLU University Library’s popular science lunchtime lecture series. Here, exciting and recent research results from SLU are presented. We offer a light lunch, and after the lecture, listeners have the opportunity to ask questions.
- You can find the programme for Worth Knowing in the library calendar.
- You can view recorded lectures on SLU Play.