Content Overview
This course focuses on developing a critical understanding of the One Health approach and its relevance to Global Health, exploring its application to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and security, vector-borne diseases, and environmental and climate-related health risks. It also examines the challenges of implementing One Health in low- and middle-income or resource-limited settings, and critically discusses the role of global organisations such as WHO, FAO, WOAH, and UNEP in advancing One Health initiatives.
Course Topics
1. Introduction to One Health
- Definition and concepts related to One Health
- Human-animal-environment interactions
2. Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance
- Transmission dynamics between animals and humans
- Risk assessment and control strategies
- Role of wildlife and livestock in disease spread
3. Infectious diseases and One Health
- Drivers of emerging diseases (climate change, urbanisation, deforestation)
- Pandemic preparedness
- Global and local surveillance
4. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in a One Health context
- AMR in human and veterinary medicine
- Antibiotic use in agriculture
- Environmental factors related to AMR
- Policy and stewardship approaches
5. Environmental health and ecosystem approaches
- Impact of environmental degradation on health
- Wildlife conservation and disease prevention
- Climate change and vector borne diseases
6. Food safety and security
- Zoonotic pathogens in food chains
- Veterinary public health
- Global food safety regulations
7. Policy, governance and implementation
8. Group work – Case study: Applying One Health concepts to Global Health problems, presentation to the class will be graded
Fee information
1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€(including lectures, course material and coffee breaks)
How to register
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