The 14th One Health Sweden Scientific Meeting 2026!

Welcome to the 14th One Health Sweden Scientific Meeting 2026! 

Theme: One Health and vector-borne diseases

Registration: To register, please use the link sent in the email on 26 January or try this link.

The meeting is free of charge. Lunch, at your own expense, is available in a restaurant next door to the venue.

Abstracts, talks and posters:
The program is open for shorter (5-10 minutes) oral presentations from the conference participants, based upon submitted abstracts. Please send in your abstracts consisting of preferably not longer than 250 words.

If you are interested in giving an oral presentation, send your abstract no later than 11 February to Elin.Spangenberg@slu.se and Tanja.Strand@sva.se.

For posters, please e-mail us the title of the poster also no later than 11 February.

For further information, contact Elin Spangenberg and Tanja Strand.

Welcome!
Best regards,
Steering committee of One Health Sweden

Preliminary program

9.00 Coffee and registration
9.30 Welcome and introduction
9.45-10.15 Katinka de Balogh, Adjunct Faculty Ross University School o f Veterinary Medicine, Board member Veterinarians without borders Canada “Global One Health Challenges”
10.20-10.50 Olof Hellgren, Lund University “Climatic effects on the transmission of wildlife malaria in birds”
10.55-11.15 Andreas Mårtensson, Uppsala University “Malaria control in East Africa - challenges and opportunities”
11.15-11.40 Poster pitches
11.40-13.10 Lunch and poster viewing
13.10-13.30 Sharon Hill, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences “Ecology of malaria mosquitoes”
13.35-14.05 Henk van der Jeugd, Dutch Center for Avian Migration and Demography/ Netherlands Institute for Ecology “Monitoring vector-borne diseases with citizen scientists in the Netherlands – and beyond”
14.10-14.20 “Leg stretcher”
14.20-14.40 Olivia Wesula Lwande, Umeå University “Competence of Newly Identified Vectors of Onyong’nyong Virus: A One Health Perspective”
14.40 Abstract presentations
14.55 Thank you and closure
15.10 Coffee and goodbye