One Health: Connecting Humans, Animals and the Environment

Description about program

Summarise the many advantages of a closer cooperation between human and animal health.
Describe the fundamental principles of cross-sector human and animal health economics.
Explain how the transmission of diseases from livestock to human via food can be prevented.
Discuss the environmental policy and law that supports food safety.


Debate how food safety can benefit from One Health.


Develop ideas for transdisciplinary processes that can solve an everyday One Health problem.
Reflect on the problems that arise from poor communication between human doctors and veterinarians.
Investigate social-ecological perspectives for the improvement of human and animal well-being.
Identify the rabies problem in the World and the potential for its elimination in Africa.
Investigate through practical case studies the collection of vaccination coverage data.
Calculate matrices to describe growth rates of populations.
Interpret tables of vaccination coverage data.


Calculate transmission dynamics of diseases between humans and animals

Domain
One Health
Training Organisation
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH), Basel University
Type of organisation
University
Enrollment method
Registration
Learning outcome
Understand
Language
EN
Certification
Yes
Duration
6 weeks
Cost
Paying