NEW BREADTH SUBJECT: OUR PLANET, OUR HEALTH II

This exciting new subject covers key One Health threats and responses, focusing on the interconnection between human health, animals and the environment.

As an extension of Our Planet, Our Health, this subject will further explore key themes, with reference to case studies, and include:

• The different scales of human, animal and ecosystem health threats;
• Balancing competing needs to achieve agricultural development, food security and human nutrition;
• The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on the emergence of new infectious disease threats;
• Competition for space: wildlife and community health versus urban sprawl; and
• Forced and voluntary migration and the relationship between human disruption and health threats.

Our Planet Our Health II will equip you with the skills to:

• Become knowledgeable across disciplines, including an ability to critically examine, synthesis and evaluate knowledge and to confront unfamiliar problems.
• Become a leader in your community through engagement in meaningful public discourse and develop excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills.
• Become an active global citizen, by accepting social and civic responsibilities including being an advocate for human rights, equity and ethics, and sustainability and the environment.

There are no prerequisites to study Our Planet, Our Health II, however recommended background knowledge is Our Planet, Our Health.

For further information, please click here to view the handbook entry.