1. International Development, Community Health and the Environment

Including:

• EcoHealth Approaches to Sustainable Health
• Systems-based strategies to mitigate emerging communicable diseases
• Environmental degradation, migration, mobility and human health
• Energy, global change and human health
• Environmental and ecological economics of energy and water supply and demand
• Social movements and community health in sustainable ecosystems

2. Climate Change and EcoHealth

Including:

• Climate and land use change modeling for disease risk assessment
• Adaptation to climate change and vulnerability in developing countries
• Natural disasters, ecosystems and health impacts.
• Climate change and emerging infectious diseases among plants, wildlife and humans

3. Conservation Medicine

Including:

• Connections between biodiversity conservation and health
• Diseases which cause extinction or threaten endangered species
• Evaluating health vs. unhealthy ecosystems
• Protected areas and wildlife health

4. Disease Emergence and Re-emergence

Including:

• Ecosystems and disease emergence (including pandemics, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases)
• Land use change and emerging infectious diseases
• Population vulnerabilities, fragile ecosystems – social outreach

5. Agricultural transformations, biodiversity, and human health

Including:

• Biodiversity, food, nutrition and sustainable agriculture
• Agricultural intensification, pesticides and human health
• Food security and HIV/AIDS
• Agriculture and malaria
• Common pool resources: sustaining healthy communities and livelihoods

6. Ecosystems and environmental pollution

Including:

• Vulnerable population in degraded ecosystems
• Economic development, ecosystem health and human health
• Mining and industries: health, environment and sustainable development
• Not enough to drink: Water scarcity and quality
• Environmental degradation and air quality

7. EcoHealth in the Urban Environment

Including:

• Ecosystem approaches to urbanization, urban slums and human health
• Ecosystem degradation and migration in developing countries
• Growth of the informal sector and health of workers (especially in slums)
• Solid Waste Management: health risks and environmental impacts.
• Healthy cities
• Urban agriculture and livelihoods
• Changing contexts of urban-rural linkages

8. Policies, Values and Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of Health and Environmental Rights

Including:

• The right to health
• Indigenous perspectives and knowledge on ecosystem sustainability and health
• Cultural disruption, environmental change, health and health systems
• Historical perspectives on EcoHealth
• Violence and conflict dimensions of EcoHealth
• Gender inequities and women as agents of change
• Ecosystem remediation, poverty and health- the role of social movements
• Environmental impact assessment
• Health impact assessment
• Children, health and the environment

9. Governance for EcoHealth

Including:

• Integrating ecosystems and health systems approaches
• Governance challenges: linking health, health systems and ecosystems in policy and decision-making
• Formal and informal institutions and policy-making: constraints and opportunities
• Economics of EcoHealth
• Evidence base of local changes on regulatory interventions
• Community empowerment impact on ecosystem and human health
• International donor and policy institutions
• Hard and soft law instruments for achieving sustainability and healthy development

10. Building Capacity for Integrated Methods on EcoHealth

Including:

• Education, training innovations and publication of developing country researcher work.
• EcoHealth Communities of Practice and Networks
• Strengthening institutional capabilities for producing and using EcoHealth research
• Environmental and health economics in EcoHealth research
• Analytical tools for integrated approaches to health and environment
• Applying environmental epidemiology in EcoHealth: methodological challenges
• Transdisciplinary evaluation tools
• Communication methods for transdisciplinary knowledge

11. Healthy Oceans, Healthy People

Including:

• Marine diseases – health impacts in the most dominant ecosystem – the oceans
• EcoHealth at the land-sea interface: parasites, pollutants & antibiotics
• Oceans and the trickle down effect: overfishing and sustainable fisheries, achieving a balance
• Wetlands and health: the interface of land and coastal ecosystems