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One Health: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Animals and the Environment
Emerging challenges to human, animal and ecosystem health demand novel solutions. New diseases are emerging from unique configurations of humans, their domestic animals and wildlife; significant new pressures on once robust and resilient ecosystems are compromising their integrity; synthetic compounds and engineered organisms, recently introduced to the natural world, are spreading unpredictably around the globe. Globalization is also providing opportunities for infectious organisms to gain access to naive hosts, which in turn leads to changing patterns of disease distribution and virulence. Faculty from all three campuses will provide expertise and guidance for individual and group teaching and learning, to help better understand the complex nature of these problems and to reveal innovative solutions. Students will examine and represent their discipline's perspective and tools to other group members; learn and incorporate other disciplines into their own thinking; and collaborate with others on the development of new, synthesized solutions. The course will explore interdisciplinary team-oriented approaches to complex health problems and set a framework for similar cross-school collaborative learning and teaching experiences at Tufts.
Faculty:
Gretchen Kaufman
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Medicine in the Department of Environmental and Population Health,
and Director of the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Joann M. Lindenmayer
Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Environmental and Population Health
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
J. Michael Reed
Professor of Biology
School of Arts & Sciences
Elena N. Naumova
Associate Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine
Director of the Tufts Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases
Tufts University School of Medicine
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