ONE HEALTH (INTEGRATED APPROACH TO HEALTH FOCUSED ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ANIMALS, HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT WITH ATTENTION TO INLAND VALORIZATION)
The One Health concept recognizes that human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are inextricably linked. Although awareness of the importance of this concept is growing, the promotion of One Health research and the implementation of the concept in national health services are lacking. One Health research requires close collaboration between physicians, veterinarians, biologists, and environmental science professionals. If properly implemented, it can accelerate biomedical research discoveries, improve public health effectiveness, rapidly expand the scientific knowledge base, and enhance medical education and clinical care.
This PhD curriculum provides training for thesis research on various human and animal health topics from a One Health perspective. Research on infectious and parasitic diseases, diagnostic and clinical issues, nutrition and food safety, and public health systems and health delivery is addressed by a multidisciplinary faculty of biologists, physicians, and veterinarians specialized in various fields. For instance, malaria researchers explore new tools that can interfere with the transmission of the parasite from the human host to the mosquito vector.