One Health Training Program
Summer Courses On-campus in an Intensive Format:
"One Health: Introduction to the One Health Approach (2 credit hrs). This 6-day morning course will introduce students to the principles of employing the One Health approach in preventing and controlling infectious diseases. It includes include a practical overview of host factors, environmental factors, and microbiological factors that influence this dynamic field of study. Through lectures and exercises, students will be introduced to infectious disease surveillance, diagnostic tools, outbreak investigations, vaccine trials, public health interventions, biodefense, emerging infectious diseases and analytical approaches as they pertain to infectious disease prevention and control. Students will be introduced to a wide array of reference material (much of it public) that will help them in practically applying course material.
One Health: Public Health Laboratory Techniques (1 credit hr). This 5-day afternoon course will introduce students to public health laboratory methods. A special emphasis will be placed upon respiratory virus work, especially influenza.
One Health: An Introduction to Entomology, Zoonotic Diseases, and Food Safety (3 credit hrs). This 6-day, concentrated course will introduce students to the epidemiology and control of entomological, zoonotic, and food-borne diseases. Each day there will be 3 hours of lecture and 3 or more hours of field activity. The course is comprised of readings, lectures, field studies, laboratory exercises, and term paper. Zoonoses endemic to the Southeastern United States are emphasized.
One Health: An Introduction to Environmental Health (3 credit hrs). This 6–day concentrated course will examine sources, routes, media, and health outcomes associated with biological, chemical, and physical agents in the environment. Effects of agents on disease, water quality, air quality, food safety, and land resources are reviewed, as well as legal frameworks, policies, and practices associated with environmental health and intended to improve public health."
