Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in One Health

Overview

The Graduate Certificate in One Health is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. The program aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to address complex health issues that affect multiple species and ecosystems.

Learning Objectives

The program has the following learning objectives:

1. Identify major zoonotic infectious disease issues.
2. Identify non-infectious environmental risks affecting both humans and animals.
3. Define sentinel events in both humans and animals and formulate methods on how to use these events to detect and prevent hazardous exposures.
4. Describe an integrated assessment of a health issue that considers human, animal, and environmental aspects.
5. Describe the implementation of an integrated intervention that considers and monitors the impact to humans, animals, and the environment.
6. Recognize the roles of different members of a One Health team working at the human-animal interface and present how to assemble and manage such transdisciplinary team interactions.

Courses

To complete the Certificate Program, students must take at least 15 credits comprised of eleven credits of required courses and capstone and four credits of elective courses (from a list of options).

Required Courses (11 credits)

• ENV H 539 One Health: Human and Animal Health in a Changing Environment (3)
• ENV H 586 OHHAI seminar (2)
• GH 511 Problems in Global Health (3) or GH 518 Selected Topics in Global Health: Understanding & Managing the Health Risks of Climate Change (3)
• Capstone (3) – Independent Credits

Electives (4 credits)

The remaining four credits must be taken from the following list of Graduate Courses:

• Emerging Infectious Disease
  • ENV H 541 Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards (3)
  • ENV H 542 Detection and Control of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards (3)
  • ENV H 543 Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (3)
  • GH 566 Biochemistry and Genetics of Pathogens and Their Hosts (4)
• Environment
  • ENV H 544 Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria/Genes Impact on the Environment and Public Health (4)
  • ENV H 547 Environmental Change and Infectious Disease (3)
  • GH 590 E Understanding & Managing the Health Risks of Climate Change (3)
  • LARC 598A Environmental Design for Global Health (3)
• Global Health
  • EPI 529/HSERV 536 Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance (3)
  • GH 501 Core Topics in Global Health (1)
  • GH 502 Contemporary Issues in Global Health (1)
  • GH 503 Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health (1)
  • GH/MED 561 Tropical Medicine (1)
• Animal Health
  • CMed 540 Animal models (1)
  • CMed 514 Comparative pathology (1)
• Social Sciences
  • ANTH 524 Current Issues in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2)
  • ANTH 573 Current Issues in Environmental Anthropology (2)
  • GH 514 Global Societal Determinants of Health (2-3)
• Epidemiology
  • EPI 511 Introduction to Epidemiology (for non-MPH students) (4)
  • EPI 512 Epidemiologic Methods (for non-MPH students) (4)
• Policy and Implementation
  • ENV H 584 Policy and Politics (3)
  • GH 541 Fundamentals of Implementation Science in Global Health (4-5)
  • GH 523 Policy Development and Advocacy for Global Health (3)

Capstone Experience (3 credits)

All participants must complete a culminating capstone project. Students are expected to find their own capstone project, which must directly relate to issues relevant to One Health. The capstone project is separate from a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.

Admissions and Mentoring

The program expects 3-5 students per year advancing towards the One Health Certificate, with a cap of 10 students completing the certificate per year (up to 20 students at any given time). The admission process requires an application to enter the Certificate program and a meeting to assess the applicant's interest level and ability to complete the program in a timely manner. Periodic meetings will be held with students working toward the certificate to promote a sense of cohort. The pathway to receiving a certificate will have oversight by the Director and Associate Directors of the Center for One Health Research (COHR), as well as faculty affiliated with the chosen certificate focus.