PVG0047, One Health: concept, cases and methodology, 3.0 Hp
Skriv ut kursplan

Kursplan

Nivå

Forskarnivå

Betygsskala

Kraven för kursens olika betygsgrader framgår av betygskriterier, som ska finnas tillgängliga senast vid kursstart.

Kursspråk

Engelska

Behörighetskrav

Mål

After completing the course the student shall be able to: • Understand the One Health concept and its transdisciplinary perspectives, and discuss One Health issues • Describe One Health cases within various areas • Identify important methods used to analyze one health impacts on animal, human and ecosystem health • Explain the principles for prevention and control of infectious diseases, food safety threats, antimicrobial resistance and other One Health hazards • Understand the advantages and challenges of applying One Health approaches • Identify challenges that need One Health approaches to be solved or mitigated • Be a valuable collaborator in One Health projects by being aware of the core competences that different participants bring into One Health collaborations

Innehåll

We will give a theoretical overview of what the One Health concept is, and why a one health approach is necessary to provide efficient solutions to the global challenges of our time. We will describe the benefits (and drawbacks) of transdisciplinary research and how transdisciplinarity is used in this context. Theoretical lectures will be mixed with presentations of successful one health cases. Methods commonly used within the one health concept will be presented, including epidemiology, bioinformatics, and qualitative research methods.

Participants will present their own research project to the group and after the first course week they will give a second presentation describing how the project could be developed using one health concept and methodology. The second week, students will be divided into groups and given the task to come up with a one health research project, and a skeleton for a research application. The second week will also include lectures on how to write a transdisciplinary research application, with emphasis on impact and communication.

Examinationsformer

To pass the course, the participants must have attended at least 80% of the scheduled activities, and completed and passed all assignments in the course.

Ansvarig institution eller motsvarande

Institutionen för biomedicin och veterinär folkhälsovetenskap

Kompletterande uppgifter

Övrig information

International and national lecturers, as well as lecturers from SLU, will be invited as lecturers. The course will be held digitally to facilitate participation for SLU’s PhD students at all campuses.