Day 1
| Start | End | Topic | Responsible |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 08:30 | Registration | |
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Opening Ceremony | June Madete (KU), Carmelo De Maria (UNIPI) |
| 09:00 | 09:30 | Holistic One Health | Arti Ahluwalia (UNIPI) |
| 09:30 | 10:00 | ||
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Healthy Break | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | One-health and the sustainable development goals | Fidelis Kilonzo (KU) |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | ||
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Student's pitch presentation | Carmelo De Maria (UNIPI) |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | ||
| 12:30 | 13:00 | ||
| 13:00 | 13:30 | Light Lunch | |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | ||
| 14:00 | 14:30 | The Role of Biomedical Engineer in public Health | Leandro Pecchia (UNICAMPUS) |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | ||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Student's pitch presentation | Carmelo De Maria (UNIPI) |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | ||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | ||
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Healthy Break | |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Project Assignments | Arti Ahluwalia (UNIPI) Carmelo De Maria (UNIPI) |
| 17:30 | 18:00 | Icebreaking & Hands on activities | |
| 18:00 | 18:30 | ||
| 18:30 | 19:00 |
Holistic One Health
Prof. Arti Ahluwalia – University of Pisa
This lesson explores One Health as a holistic framework for engineering and technological design, while explicitly questioning human-centred assumptions that have shaped modern innovation. Moving beyond paradigms such as Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0, the course invites students to rethink design, computation, and artificial intelligence as tools that can support ecosystem resilience, interspecies wellbeing, and long-term planetary health, rather than solely human convenience or economic growth. The course also discusses sentience, consciousness, and non-human agency, encouraging students to reflect on ethical responsibility, equity, and the limits of anthropocentric thinking. Group activities and case studies will be used to challenge students to design solutions which favour the health of all living systems, not just humans.
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One-health and the sustainable development goals
Prof. Fidelis Kilonzo – Kenyatta University
This plenary explores how curiosity and creativity cultivates innovation for One Health challenges and Sustainable Development Goals. Using real examples from Kenya—including ivermectin’s unexpected impacts on soil ecosystems, IoT-based water quality monitoring, and locally-fabricated building materials—the session demonstrates how curiosity-driven, mastery-based learning enables students to address complex problems at the human-animal-environment interface. Participants will learn practical strategies to preserve curiosity, develop coach-ability across disciplines, leverage local resources for innovation, and connect their work to SDG targets. The session challenges traditional examination-based education that suppresses creativity, offering instead a pathway for broad-based participation in solving urgent One Health challenges facing communities globally.
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The role of biomedical engineer in Global Health
Prof. Leandro Pecchia – University Campus Biomedico of Rome
Biomedical engineering has been a key enabler for biology and medicine over the past 40 years, primarily through medical devices. Today, health systems face unprecedented challenges, both locally (demographic changes, population ageing) and globally (health emergencies, pandemics, climate change). Our community must now focus on global health and healthcare sustainability. The WHO Strategic Plan 2025-2028 emphasizes the need for climate-resilient health systems and reducing healthcare’s carbon footprint. For example, potential carriers of diseases like the Nila Virus and Malaria have been found in non-endemic areas, and healthcare systems are responsible for 5% of EU CO2 emissions. A report from a leading medical device manufacturer estimates that by 2040, one-fourth of Europe’s population will need to work in healthcare to meet the demands of an aging population. This highlights the urgent need for innovative technologies to support healthcare workers, leveraging robotics, AI, and IoT to reduce time spent on routine tasks. To address these challenges, it is essential to rethink healthcare service organization and how health technology can be sustainably adopted. BME must collaborate with sustainability experts and global health experts to reorganize healthcare services effectively. The adoption of innovative technologies must be accompanied by a reorganization of services to ensure safety, efficiency, and sustainability.In this talk, Professor Pecchia will overview his recent work as WHO Innovation Manager during COVID and his involvement in major projects like GATEKEEPER, ODIN, EPoCA, Enkore, GRACE, and Afya Moja. These projects aim to bridge research and global health ecosystems across various phases of medical device lifecycles, from design and manufacturing to clinical validation