Postgraduate Course: One Health management and risk assessment (VESC11032)
Course Outline
| School | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Veterinary Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will introduce the overarching theme of infectious disease surveillance from a national, regional and global perspective. This will include the current state of global surveillance, WHO global event based surveillance/OIE/FAO formal and informal systems. Describe through the use of case studies at the interface of human animal (domestic/wildlife) - ecosystems and provide discussion of cross-sectoral and cross border surveillance. Case studies will include HPAI Global and national surveillance of animal influenza, rabies and brucellosis and FMD. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students should be able to:
Understand what is meant by one health surveillance, and options of conducting surveillance and sharing surveillance data or information that achieve early detection and One Health outcomes and assist in prevention and rapid response.
Understand the current state of global surveillance
Develop an improved understanding of the risks of emerging disease
Understand the benefits from conducting joint surveillance and sharing surveillance data or information, and review disease situations where such surveillance could be maximally beneficial to human and animal populations.
Highlight existing reporting and notification systems at global level (WHO-IHR, OIE-WAHIS/WAHID, INFOSAN) for countries, encourage transparency and notification of outbreaks and emerging events and Global Surveillance and Early Warning initiatives such as the joint FAO/OIE/WHO Global Early Warning System (GLEWS).
Discuss the role that the sectors can play with in One Health, and assess the role that they currently play or intend to play as veterinarians, medics, biomedical scientists, modellers, geographers and socio economists.
Learn from success histories of OH surveillance in implementing OH surveillance programs.
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Assessment Information
| 100% in-course assessment, which will comprise two assessments each worth 50% of the final course mark |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Michael Thrusfield
Tel: (0131 6)50 6223
Email: M.Thrusfield@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Elizabeth Wright
Tel: (0131 6)51 7363
Email: E.Wright@ed.ac.uk |
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