Overview

Understanding these connections is essential for solving today’s most complex health challenges – from the health and well-being of animals and humans to emerging infectious diseases, food safety, and environmental change.

Key Facts

The One Health programme from University of Helsinki trains doctoral researchers in the fields of animal health and welfare, translational animal models and comparative medicine, clinical veterinary medicine including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of animal and zoonotic diseases, food safety and food systems, environmental health and antimicrobial resistance.

Teaching and research are supported by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s four departments, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, collaborating faculties, and HiLIFE. Doctoral researchers benefit from exceptional infrastructures, including:

the canine and feline biobank and veterinary patient databases, enabling discovery through spontaneous animal disease models

the Animal Welfare Centre and reproductive biotechnology units

advanced platforms such as histotechnology services, flow cytometry, stem cell technologies, laboratory animal pathology, imaging platforms, and the Laboratory Animal Centre

state-of-the-art facilities in food hygiene, food safety, and environmental health, covering genomics, epidemiology, pathogen biology, and risk management

Helsinki University Hospital (HUS)

Programme Structure

Research Areas:

Animal health, welfare and behaviour

Clinical veterinary medicine

Comparative medicine and translational animal models

Disease ecology, epidemiology and population health

Environmental health, microbiology and toxicology

Food safety, food systems and water safety

Immunology, vaccinology and host–microbe interactions

Infectious diseases, zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance

Molecular genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-16 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

92

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PTE Academic

68

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

30 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Helsinki, Finland

Disciplines

Public Health View 3 other PhDs in Public Health in Finland

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

92

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PTE Academic

68

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

An applicable second-cycle university degree

An applicable second-cycle degree from a university of applied sciences, or

An applicable education at an institution abroad providing eligibility for equivalent higher education in the country in question

You can only apply by filling in the online application form during the application period. The application can be written in Finnish, Swedish or English. Check the programme-specific requirements – some doctoral programmes require an English-language research proposal.

Reserve plenty of time for completing the application. The application cannot be saved as a draft, but you can edit it during the application period. To be able to save the application, there must be at least one character in every mandatory answer field.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

Free
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

Free

Additional Details

No tuition fees for PhD students.

Living costs

Helsinki

Finland

975 - 1584 EUR / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.