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Program Description
The One Health approach is a comprehensive framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. It emerged from the understanding that the health of each of these domains is interdependent and that addressing health issues requires a collaborative and multidisciplinary effort. A One Health Undergraduate Certificate will instill the One Health approach through a multidisciplinary educational framework with interdisciplinary classroom collaboration.
Understanding the interface between humans and animals is critical to identifying the next emerging disease, preserving agricultural food security, and protecting human and animal health. Students in this program will receive prescribed education spanning human-animal health challenges and environmental impacts on health.
The certificate program is appropriate for all students including students interested in medicine, public health, environmental protection, climate change, community development, local and international community education, and policy and advocacy. Students in this track are typically science students outside of the animal health framework who are typically more interested in human health but want knowledge in how animal and environmental health promote zoonotic risk and affect social determinants of health.
Program Requirements
To earn an undergraduate certificate in One Health: Human-Animal Interface, a minimum of 13 credits is required.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prescribed Courses | ||
| Prescribed Courses: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| VBSC 340N | Introduction to One Health  | 3 |
| VBSC 341 | Wicked Problems in One Health | 1 |
| VBSC 444 | Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| Supporting Courses and Related Areas | ||
| Supporting Courses and Related Areas: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| Environment or Climate Elective 1 | 3 | |
| Human or Animal Health Elective 1,2 | 3 | |
- 1
Supporting course selection requires coordinator preapproval
- 2
Cannot double count with VBSC_Major 400-level supporting courses
Academic Advising
The objectives of the university's academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their academic goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take advantage of both in-and out-of class educational opportunities in order that they become self-directed learners and decision makers.
Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising relationship succeed. By encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a significant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment will provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.
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University Park
Jennifer Koehl, Ph.D., MPS
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Program Coordinator, One Health Minor Coordinator, Assistant Teaching Professor
108E Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
jzk335@psu.edu
Contact
University Park
DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
vetbiomedsci@psu.edu