About this course (5 minutes)
Target audience
This introductory course is mainly intended for EU/EEA Member States Animal Health, Environmental Health and Public Health professionals who would like to collaborate with other sectors using a One Health approach or further structure and formalise their multisectoral collaboration activities when it comes to communicable disease prevention, surveillance, control or preparedness.
Learning objectives
- Describe the One Health approach, its local implications, global interconnectivity and how it affects health conditions in the population.
- Describe the changing nature, key factors and resources that shape One Health to influence actions (emergency preparedness planning and response) at the local and international levels.
- Cite examples of multisectoral evidence-based guidelines and systems for surveillance, prevention and control of diseases and other acute public health events.
Course structure
The course is designed as a non-moderated, self-paced course, i.e. participants can decide when to use it, interrupt and come back to continue at any time. The estimated duration to complete the course is 90-120 minutes. We recommend you complete the course chapter by chapter and reflect on your understanding by completing the "Reflect on the training" optional activities.
Acknowledgements:
- Content development: Timothee Dub, with support from ECDC One Health group: Juliette Hoefle-Benard, Carmen Varela Santos, Tamas Bakonyi, Barbora Kinross.
- Instructional design: Alejandro Torres (Atexis)
Part of the content of this training is also based on interventions conducted during ECDC winter workshop 2024 by representatives or employees of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE, European Commission), FOUR PAWS International, Geneva Graduate Institute, the Nature Conservancy and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (Dr Osman A Dar).
Support:
If you have questions about the course content or other ECDC training activities, please contact Courses@ecdc.europa.eu.
For technical issues, please reach out to the ECDC Helpdesk at front.office@ecdc.europa.eu.