Curriculum
Rx One Health’s comprehensive and integrated curriculum has been thoughtfully curated to help participants achieve critical One Health Core Competencies (derived from Togami, et al, 2018).
Course Learning Objectives:
- Explain principles that influence One Health, such as disease transmission, epidemiology, biological complexity, biosecurity, food safety and ecosystem dynamics
- Identify cultural and socioeconomic determinants of health
- Describe the benefits and challenges of One Health approaches to respond to complex health problems
- Discuss One Health problems from a transdisciplinary perspective
- Develop means of implementation of One Health approaches
- Evaluate methods of One Health research and community engagement
- Identify social, ecological, and economic impacts of a One Health approach
- Communicate One Health principles and approaches effectively to a broad range of stakeholders
Content Areas
- One Health
- Planetary Health
- Human Health and Nutrition
- Human-Wildlife-Livestock-Plant-Environment Interface
- Zoonotic Disease
- Biosecurity
- Risk Mitigation
- Animal Agriculture
- Wildlife & Marine Conservation
- Terrestrial & Marine Ecosystem Health
- Food & Water Safety
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- Food Security
- Food Sustainability
- Community Engagement
- Communication Skills
- Collaboration
- Inter-dependency of Stakeholders
- Advocating for Change
- Cultural Competence
- Interpersonal Skills
- Professionalism
- Cross-disciplinary Teamwork
- Research Methods – laboratory & community-based