Overview
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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2022-2023
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2024-ONGOING
Enrolment rules
Enrolment in Master of Health Policy and Leadership, Master of Health Administration, Policy and Leadership and Graduate Certificate in One Health or Master of Veterinary Studies in Conservation Medicine M1122
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Understand the principles of the One Health approach and the application of these principles to determine the key epidemiological features of common zoonoses;
2.
Recognize the zoonotic and environmental drivers of emerging infectious diseases;
3.
Identify the leadership roles, management responsibilities of key stakeholders in One Health problems (i.e. governmental organization, international organizations, and media);
4.
Research and evaluate specific One Health challenges e.g. food safety, antibiotic resistance, emerging diseases and wildlife health and conservation;
5.
Evaluate the evidence needed to establish a control strategy for a zoonotic/emerging disease including: surveillance data and health and economic data;
6.
Present and justify a control program for a zoonotic/emerging disease scenario using the principles of One Health.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:Key concepts and topics include:
- One Health: What is it and why is it important?
- The Human-Animal-Environment interface;
- Zoonoses classes recognition: traditional, foodborne, vector-borne, occupational, emerging etc.;
- Ecosystem approach to health and disease;
- Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife and species conservation;
- One Health and environmental drivers for specific health challenges: Rabies, Influenza, Cholera, Salmonella, Antibiotic Resistance;
- Economics of the One Health;
- Social perspectives and community engagement in control of zoonotic diseases;
- Future challenges for One Health.