Course description
One Health: A Ten-Thousand-Year-Old View into the Future
Are you interested in understanding how global climate change will alter human society, animal health, and the environment? Are you curious about how these three things are interconnected?
This course focuses on what is happening right now in the Arctic, where climate change is accelerating twice as fast as the rest of the world. Understanding how Arctic ecosystems are adapting and collapsing can give us insight into future changes across the globe. While this course is focused on the Arctic, the principles and concepts in this course can be applied anywhere in the world.
Finding deep solutions to new challenges caused by climate change can’t be accomplished using only traditional fields of science, such as medicine or biology.
Addressing these issues effectively requires a novel approach, one that integrates knowledge across disciplines and cultures and recognizes the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health. This concept, always central to the Indigenous worldview, has recently been recognized in Western science as One Health.
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Who should attend?
Prerequisites
None
Training content
One Health Overview
- Welcome to the Course
- One Health Concepts
- Indigenous Worldview
- The Zen Venn Approach
Human Health and Animal Health
- Animal Health Introduction
- Why Animal Health Matters
- Human Health Introduction
- Human Health - More than just the Absence of Disease
Environmental Health - Our Role in the Ecosystem
- Environmental Health
- One Health and Climate Change
- Biodiversity
- Biocontaminants and Contaminant Monitoring
Social Sciences in One Health
- Social Sciences Introduction
- One Health Paradigm
- Role of Team Science in One Health
- Collaboration in One Health
Course delivery details
This course is offered through University of Alaska Fairbanks, a partner institute of EdX.
4-6 hours per week
Costs
- Verified Track -$99
- Audit Track - Free
Certification / Credits
What you'll learn
Students who complete this course will:
- Have a solid understanding of the One Health concept
- Be able to identify how One Health can provide a lens through which to view a variety of challenging situations in human, animal, and environmental health
- Explain how the One Health approach can lead to sustainable solutions to critical issues facing communities in the Circumpolar North and beyond
Students will also:
- Explain the One Health paradigm with a focus on the Circumpolar North and global applications
- Describe the ten thousand-year history of One Health
- Explore interrelationships between human, animal, and environmental health
- Provide examples of challenges best addressed through the One Health paradigm
- Describe how Traditional ways of knowing and Western science can be used together to understand and manage One Health issues
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