Global One Health: How Intersections between Humans, Animals, & the Environment Shape Public Health (PH-0218)

Spring 2025 · PH 0218 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Worldwide, increasing public health challenges result from complex and inextricable interactions between humans, animals, and the environment, necessitating a One Health systems approach to addressing these planetary challenges. This transdisciplinary course will introduce the concept of One Health as an increasingly important approach to a holistic understanding of the interrelationships between human, animal, and environmental health. Among the topics covered are bi-directional impacts of human and animal health (with particular emphasis on zoonotic diseases), the impact of earth’s changing ecosystems on health of populations, anthropogenic drivers of emerging and re-emerging viruses in human populations, issues of food and water security, animals as sentinels of environmental hazards, emergency preparedness, and the benefits of comparative medicine among animals and humans.

Course codes: PH-0218, PH 0218, PH0218, PH-218, PH 218, PH218

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