This symposium will bring together leading experts from different fields to discuss the topic ‘Healthy ecosystems, healthy people’.

Ecosystems provide services that maintain and improve human wellbeing, such as food provisioning and disease regulation however, they can also generate ‘disservices’, such as reservoirs for new, ‘emerging’ infectious disease from wildlife.

Health is a critical aspect of human wellbeing, interacting with material and social relations to contribute to people’s freedoms and choices, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where clusters of health and disease problems disproportionately affect poor people and contribute further to their poverty.

Healthy ecosystems and healthy people go together, yet the precise relationships between these remain poorly understood.

Understanding the interactions between ecosystem change, disease regulation and human wellbeing is an interdisciplinary challenge which the scientific community is only beginning to address. In policy terms, One Health and Ecohealth are converging approaches resting on the shared principle that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interdependent.

There is, however, little integration in understanding the relationships between these sectors. Too often research is divided between those who focus on environmental change and ecosystem services; those who address socio-economic, poverty and wellbeing issues; and those who consider health and disease. This leads to fragmented understandings and inadequate responses.

This symposium will bring together leading experts from different fields to:

• Present new interdisciplinary frameworks for a real-world One Health approach.
• Highlight evidence from field-based settings in Africa and beyond.
• Debate implications for policy and practice.

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It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 9^th International Leptospirosis Society Scientific Meeting (ILS 2015) and we are proud to host this biennial meeting in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, in October 2015.

During the last decade, leptospirosis outbreaks are increasingly reported from many places in the world. Human as well as veterinary communities are at higher burden risk of leptospiral transmissions. The existing global problem of leptospiral infections, as human and animal diseases, may also influence the socio-economic aspects of the affected countries. The clinical and field research on leptospirosis has been done so far but the implementation of study findings is less than adequate.

This scientific meeting is one of the opportunities to present and discuss many issues on leptospirosis. Not only scientific information, the participants will get benefit from networking with colleagues from different background, for research as well as exchange of the experiences and new ideas in management and controlling the disease.

All medical and veterinary scientists, clinicians, public health experts and also people working in related fields are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting and present their work.

The 2015 International Leptospirosis Society Scientific Meeting Semarang, Indonesia October 7-10th, 2015

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Dates: 7th to 10th, Sepetember 2015

Venue: Porto Portugal

Programme: topics of relevance for the sector Current scientific and policy questions will be discussed at the conference. The programme is based on the presentation of abstracts submitted. We will have 3 keynote speakers and a round table discussion about the use of antimicrobials at production level. The conference will facilitate interaction with specialists and policy makers from all over the world in the food safety area. The main topics are:

Dates: 14th to 15th September, 2015

Venue: The Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London

The Royal Veterinary College, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and London International Development Centre present an Autumn Symposium on ‘One Health: parasites and beyond…’ in association with the British Society for Parasitology, MSD Animal Health and Ceva Animal Health Ltd. The One Health approach promotes collaboration between multiple disciplines including biology, human and veterinary medicine, environmental sciences, economics and social sciences in order to improve human, animal and environmental health. In this symposium we will bring together experts in different fields to explore how an interdisciplinary approach can improve control of parasitic diseases of humans and animals. Click to learn more