Conservation Medicine: A One Health Laboratory

Catalog description

The program integrates students into the issues and challenges at the core of the preservation of species diversity through direct exposure to risks and mitigation strategies being used to protect the Indonesian Rhino and the African Great Ape. It provides students with general concepts relative to species risk, but also directly engages them in addressing these problems within the necessary cultural and economic context of competing pressures between human and animal populations. As such, through direct engagement, the course represents an immersion in the concept of One Health. This concept of a more holistic approach to medicine that considers animal and environmental, as well as human health is made tangible through exposure to the current threats to the survival of key species. Multi-term course with NTRES 4161, students must enroll in both sections.