International One Health Symposium 2025

Session

Session 3: Pandemic Preparedness & Prevention and Social Sciences & Health

Oct 13, 2025, 5:00 PM

Hall "Berlin"

Conveners

Session 3: Pandemic Preparedness & Prevention and Social Sciences & Health

• Maresa Neuerer
• Sandra Junglen

249. SARS-CoV-2 evolution on a dynamic immune landscape

Sofia Paraskevopoulou (Department MFI, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany)

10/13/25, 5:00 PM

Pandemic Prepardness & Prevention

Oral presentation

Since the onset of the pandemic many SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged exhibiting substantial evolution in the virus’ spike protein, the main target of neutralizing antibodies. A plausible hypothesis proposes that the virus evolves to evade antibody-mediated neutralization (vaccine- or infection-induced) to maximize its ability to infect an immunologically experienced population. Because viral...

311. Mx-mediated Host Restriction of Emerging Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses

Dr Jakob Ankerhold (University of Freiburg Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)

10/13/25, 5:15 PM

Pandemic Prepardness & Prevention

Oral presentation

Since 2022, H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4b caused unprecedented outbreaks in wild birds and increasing mammal infections, including spill-over into humans. These events raised concerns that H5N1 viruses may further adapt to humans. Indeed, some H5N1 viruses isolated from mammals carry adaptive mutations enhancing receptor binding and polymerase...

188. Towards a One Health Region: Insights from Stakeholders of an Innovation Alliance in Western Pomerania, Germany

Susan Thomschke (Chair of Economic and Social Geography, University of Greifswald)

10/13/25, 5:30 PM

Social Sciences & Health

Oral presentation

The BMBF-funded T!Raum alliance 'One Health Region Western Pomerania' aims to implement One Health principles in the region through transdisciplinary cooperation and knowledge transfer, and to anchor the One Health concept in all decisions by firms, policymakers, and the civil society. The concept of a ‘One Health Region’ is an innovation developed by the T!Raum alliance.
As a key component...

285. Readiness for sampling from the environment for One Health Research: Findings from a Population-based Cohort (MuSPAD) in 2024

Ms Dörthe Meyerdierks (Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany. Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Ph.D. Programme "Epidemiology", Braunschweig-Hannover, Germany.)

10/13/25, 6:00 PM

Pandemic Prepardness & Prevention

Oral presentation

Introduction
Environmental sources can harbor zoonotic pathogens, and their sampling – central to the One Health approach – supports research at the human-animal-environment interface. This study aims to assess participants’ readiness to collect environmental samples over a two-year period.
Methods
We analyzed data from a test-focused subcohort (PCR-4-ALL) of the Multilocal and...

335. The One Health Teaching Clinic: An Educational Model for Integrating One Health in Schools

Ulrich Hobusch (University College of Agricultural and Environmental Education, Vienna, Austria)

10/13/25, 6:15 PM

Pandemic Prepardness & Prevention

Oral presentation

Effective and contemporary educational strategies are essential components for integrating the concept of One Health into (formal) education in schools. In this talk, we present the One Health Teaching Clinic (OHTC) as an innovative educational model that connects future science teachers with One Health experts from medicine, veterinary science, and environmental fields to tackle today’s most...