AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

One Health is one of the most emerging disciplines in the realm of public health. The One Health paradigm focuses on the holistic and interconnectedness of animals, humans, plants, and their shared environments to acknowledge and solve complex public health problems. The discipline integrates a multidisciplinary approach towards animal-human relationships and the resultant zoonosis, cross-species spillover events, and epidemics or pandemics. Planetary health is considered a part of One Health and is defined as “the health of human civilization and the natural systems on which it depends”. It is an emerging interdisciplinary specialty primarily focused towards characterization and quantification of the human health impacts of manmade disruptions of Earth’s natural ecosystems. The One Health approach is based on the principle that the health of a community is heavily dependent on its environment and its interactions with other species. The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the capacity of a zoonosis event to transform into a world-changing pandemic. This has put emerging diseases at a research priority, highlighting the role of expert professionals with a multisectoral perspective. Professionals from varied backgrounds like veterinary medicine, public health, health policy, ecology, clinical medicine, microbiology collaborate at local, regional, national, and global levels to optimize health outcomes. The MPH One Health/Planetary Health program provides a thorough understanding of underlying mechanisms for the transmission of diseases between species and the facilitating environments. The program matrix will help you to develop a constructionist approach toward emerging one-health issues of the world.

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