The Graduate Certificate in One Health increases the competence and ability of graduate students and professionals as they work in interdisciplinary teams to solve complex problems at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health.
Learning Objectives
One Health emphasizes the integration between human, animal, and environmental health. The framework requires understanding across multiple disciplines working together at local, regional, national and global levels, and an ability to work in transdisciplinary teams.
Upon successful completion, students will be able to:
- Describe genetic, biomedical, physiological, social, environmental, political, and economic factors that contribute to health and disease issues that can be solved using a One Health approach.
- Develop an understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of the One Health framework.
- Implement a systems thinking based approach to complex health problems that include human, animal, and environmental health.
- Communicate with stakeholders and communities on the direct and indirect human, animal, and environmental impacts of hazards that are inherently One Health issues.
- Identify and create collaborative relationships and research networks implementing the One Health approach in communities.
- Recognize the roles of different members of a One Health team working at the human-animal-environment interface, and present how to assemble and manage such transdisciplinary team interactions.
Effective Fall 2024
Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses: | ||
| PBHL 540 | One Health in Public Health | 3 |
| PBHL 642 | One Health in Communities | 3 |
| SOC 696 | Group Study | 2 |
| Electives (select a minimum of one course): | 2-4 | |
| Principles of Cooperative Extension | ||
| Sociology of Food Systems and Agriculture | ||
| Anthropology and Global Health | ||
| Biological Basis of Public Health | ||
| Environmental Health Risk Assessment | ||
| Food Systems, Nutrition, and Food Security | ||
| Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases/Zoonoses | ||
| Concepts in GIS | ||
| Community-Based Natural Resource Management | ||
| Animal Assisted Therapy and Human-Animal Bond | ||
| Human-Animal Interventions--Grief and Loss | ||
| Environmental Public Health and Policy | ||
| Epidemiology for Public Health | ||
| Physical Activity and Public Health | ||
| Program Total Credits: | 10-12 | |
*This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.