One Health: Introduction to the One Health Approach

2 credits · Graduate School - DKU

Introduces principles of employing the One Health approach in preventing and controlling infectious diseases. Includes practical overview of host factors, environmental factors, and microbiological factors that influence this dynamic field of study. Through lectures and exercises, introduces infectious disease surveillance, diagnostic tools, outbreak investigations, vaccine trials, public health interventions, biodefense, emerging infectious diseases and analytical approaches as they pertain to infectious disease prevention and control. Introduces wide array of reference material for practical application of course material. Course offered in Durham for Duke Kunshan University students only.