Are you interested in understanding how global climate change will alter human society, animal health, and the environment? Are you curious about how these three things are interconnected?
This course focuses on what is happening right now in the Arctic, where climate change is accelerating twice as fast as the rest of the world. Understanding how Arctic ecosystems are adapting and collapsing can give us insight into future changes across the globe.
Finding deep solutions to new challenges caused by climate change can’t be accomplished using only traditional fields of science, such as medicine or biology.
Addressing these issues effectively requires a novel approach, one that integrates knowledge across disciplines and cultures and recognizes the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health. This concept, always central to the Indigenous worldview, has recently been recognized in Western science as One Health.
One Health was originally developed as a means of understanding how zoonotic diseases, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, arise.
Week 1: 10,00 years of One Health:
Week 2: Why animal health matters
Week 3: Human Health – More than just the absence of disease
Week 4: Environmental health influences everyone
Week 5: Beyond natural science: The role of social sciences and Traditional ways of knowing
Timely and relevant examples of One Health issues:
Week 6: Zoonotic diseases and COVID-19
Other zoonotic disease threats and the role of One Health in understanding their risk and management
Week 7: Food Safety Security and Sovereignty
Week 8: Operationalizing One Health