VBSC 455One Health
This course addresses the challenges and opportunities at the convergence of One Health/public health, animal health, and environmental/ecosystem health. This interdisciplinary course will introduce the concept of One Health as an increasingly important approach to a holistic understanding of disease prevention and the maintenance of human and animal health. The list of topics will include lectures that emphasize the bidirectional impact of animal health on human health, the impact of the earth's changing ecology on health, issues of food and water security and preparedness and the benefits of comparative medicine. The course will also explore short and long term approaches to address the problems that emerge from growing interaction between human and animal populations driven by growth in the human population, new trends in animal production practices, industrial pollution, changing patterns of wildlife populations, human intrusion on new ecosystems, and trans-border mobility of humans, animals, and food.