Linder Deborah, Cardamone Carie, Cash Sean B, Castellot John, Kochevar Deborah, Dhadwal Shuchi, Patterson Ellen
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts Institute of Human-Animal Interaction, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA, USA.
Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
One Health. 2020 Feb 10;9:100121. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100121. eCollection 2020 Jun.
Today's collaborations across fields of health and wellness are insufficient to meet societies' challenges in combating disease and maintaining the ecosystem and public health. In this article, we present a One Health curriculum model designed to encourage undergraduate students of varying disciplines to value the connectedness of animals, humans, and the environment and to think innovatively about solutions to priority global health issues. We present the design and implementation of a course that brought together multiple faculty from different fields of study, including the dental, medical, nutrition, and veterinary schools, in a curriculum designed for undergraduates primarily from Arts & Sciences fields. The curriculum was collaboratively designed around four key One Health categories: 1) Infectious zoonotic diseases and global health, 2) Naturally occurring shared disease in companion animals that can serve as models for human disease, 3) Human-animal interactions, and 4) Impact of environmental health on human and animal health. We show this course successfully deepened students' understandings of One Health, its role in addressing high priority health issues and the overall benefits of a One Health approach to tackling societal problems. We also report a positive experience by the faculty working in collaboration to implement the curriculum model and the overall enthusiasm of students for the course, all of whom would recommend it to their peers. We conclude by proposing the potential of the curriculum model underlying this course to fill the need for One Health Curricula in programs preparing future health professionals.
当今健康与保健领域的合作不足以应对社会在抗击疾病、维护生态系统和公共卫生方面所面临的挑战。在本文中，我们提出了一种“同一健康”课程模式，旨在鼓励不同学科的本科生重视动物、人类和环境之间的联系，并创新思考解决全球重点健康问题的方案。我们介绍了一门课程的设计与实施情况，该课程汇聚了来自牙科学院、医学院、营养学院和兽医学院等不同研究领域的多名教师，面向主要来自文理学院的本科生设计了课程体系。该课程体系围绕“同一健康”的四个关键类别进行协同设计：1）人畜共患传染病与全球健康；2）伴侣动物中可作为人类疾病模型的自然发生的共患病；3）人与动物的互动；4）环境健康对人类和动物健康的影响。我们表明，这门课程成功加深了学生对“同一健康”的理解，以及其在解决重点健康问题中的作用，还有采用“同一健康”方法应对社会问题的总体益处。我们还报告了教师在合作实施课程模式过程中的积极体验，以及学生对该课程的总体热情，他们都愿意向同龄人推荐这门课程。我们最后提出，这门课程所基于的课程模式有潜力满足培养未来健康专业人员的项目对“同一健康”课程的需求。
