Back to: One Health Modules
Module Overview
Repeated emergence and reemerging of infectious disease outbreak in Africa urge the collaborative effort of multiple health science professions, together with their related disciplines and institutions working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants, and our environment. It is clear that no one discipline or sector of society has enough knowledge and resources to prevent the emergence or resurgence of diseases in today’s globalized world. No one nation can reverse the patterns of habitat loss and extinction that can and do undermine the health of people and animals. Only by breaking down the barriers among agencies, individuals, specialties and sectors can we unleash the innovation and expertise needed to meet the many serious challenges to the health of people, domestic animals, and wildlife and to the integrity of ecosystems. Solving today’s threats and tomorrow’s problems cannot be accomplished with yesterday’s approaches. We are in an era of ‘One World, One Health’ and we must devise adaptive, forward-looking and multidisciplinary solutions to the challenges that undoubtedly lie ahead.
The training module will foster understanding and skill in the basic principles and importance of collaboration and partnership, in the context of a One Health approach to address complex health challenges by One Health professionals. It covers the need for human, animal and environmental health organizations and professionals to share knowledge and resources for improving global health problems. This module provides students and other trainees with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to successfully implement One Health collaborative work. Collaborative partnerships rely on participation by all parties who agree for one goal by sharing knowledge, resources, and people for the benefit of human, animal and environment. Common vision and mission and team building for One Health are the focus.
Some of the materials and resources in this module were directly borrowed from the SEAOHUN collaboration and partnership module.
Goals of the Training
- To appreciate the importance of collaboration and partnerships of human, animal, and environmental health professionals to the global health and increase exposure to and improve cross-sectoral and inter-professional collaboration.
- To understand the factors facilitating and affecting the role and responsibility of collaborators and partners and also identify the benefits and challenges in one health approach.
- To comprehend the need for team building and features of effective teamwork for shared vision to improve human, animal and environmental health, teaming multilateral health agencies in One Health principle.
- To illustrate sharing of resources, ways of communication, different professions’ contribution of professionals during collaboration and partnership for one common goal – global health.
- To help participants be aware of basic gender sensitive approaches in dealing with conflict of interest between professionals in collaboration and partnership.