MUSA and the One-Health Challenge: “A Legacy Beyond the PNRR” – Interview with Edoardo Croci

Yesterday, December 3rd 2025, MUSA held a parallel session focused on the role of the One-Health approach in sustainable urban transformation. The session was coordinated by Edoardo Croci, Director of the SUR Lab at Bocconi University, who highlighted how integrating environmental, social, and health dimensions can serve as a strategic foundation for future urban policies.

The event underlined the growing recognition that cities must address environmental quality, public health, climate resilience, and social equity through an integrated lens. One-Health provides that lens by linking human well-being, ecosystem health, and urban systems design.

The discussions underscored several key points:

• One-Health enables systemic urban regeneration, combining energy transition, green infrastructure, inclusive mobility, and social well-being.
• Urban interventions should be designed to generate co-benefits, ensuring environmental improvement and community health outcomes.
• MUSA’s contribution goes beyond the PNRR, offering lasting methodologies, datasets, and governance tools for metropolitan transformation.

An in-depth interview with Professor Edoardo Croci has now been published, offering further insights into the themes addressed during the session and the broader relevance of One-Health for cities navigating ecological and social transitions. The interview emphasises that MUSA’s work is not limited to the timeframe of the PNRR. The project is creating a long-term knowledge base to support Milan in building more sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban environments. One-Health emerges as a central pillar of this vision.
 

Read the full interview here.