One Health

Catalog description

The central tenet of the One Health framework is that human health is inexorably interconnected with the health of animals, plants and our shared environment. The One Health framework connects diverse job sectors involving the collaboration among professionals in human health (doctors, nurses, epidemiologists); animal health (veterinarians, agricultural workers); environment (ecologists, wildlife experts) along with law enforcement, policymakers and the general public. While the One Health perspective has only recently begun to be integrated into Eurocentric medicine and public health, a foundational understanding of the interconnectedness of the land and the living is widely found among many traditional cultures. Students develop an understanding of the social, cultural and institutional dimensions of the human-animal-environment interface from transdisciplinary perspectives across spatial and temporal scales.